2024
Astro Tuesday: Haowen Zhang (University of Arizona)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Haowen Zhang (University of Arizona) “Hunting for Banana Galaxies with Imaging to Spectroscopy”
PhD Thesis Defense: Jason Poh
10:00–11:00 am ERC 401
Jason Poh “Strong Gravitational Lensing Science in the Era of Large Astronomical Surveys”
Physics Colloquium: James Beatty (Ohio State University)
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Geoppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
James Beatty (Ohio State University) “Cosmic Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos in the 21st Century”
KICP seminar: Elena Pinetti (FNAL)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Elena Pinetti (FNAL) “Probing dark matter with cosmic voids”
A&A Colloquium: Samar Safi-Harb (University of Manitoba)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Samar Safi-Harb (University of Manitoba) “Pulsar Wind Nebulae: Today and the Future”
Astro Tuesday: Christoph Welling (UChicago) and Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Christoph Welling (UChicago) “Can PUEO measure the flavor of UHE neutrinos?” and Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern) “How do black holes feast and burp?”
Open Group Seminar: Gourav Khullar (University of Pittsburgh)
11:45 am–12:45 pm ERC 401
Gourav Khullar (University of Pittsburgh) “Catching galaxies napping with JWST: Stochastic Star Formation Histories in Post-Starburst Galaxies at Redshift > 4-6”
PhD Thesis Defense: Maya Mallaby-Kay
10:00–11:00 am ERC 401
Maya Mallaby-Kay “Probing the Large Scale Structure of our Universe with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
KICP seminar: Michael Toomey ( MIT)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Michael Toomey ( MIT) “Normalizing Flows for Cosmological Data Analysis: Learning Physically Motivated Priors in Early Dark Energy and Full-Shape Analyses”
KICP Colloquium: Chihway Chang (University of Chicago)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Chihway Chang (University of Chicago) “Precision Cosmology with Large-scale Structure in the Era of Galaxy Surveys”