2024

Open Group Seminar: Evan Nunez (Caltech)
4:00–5:00 pm ERC 545
Evan Nunez (Caltech) “Looking Inside and Out: Observationally Connecting the Inner Circumgalactic and Ionized Interstellar Medium of z~2-3 Galaxies with KBSS-InCLOSE”

KICP seminar: Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University) “Science from and for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope & Beyond”

A&A Colloquium: Meredith MacGregor (Johns Hopkins University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Meredith MacGregor (Johns Hopkins University) “How to Form a Habitable Planet”

Astro Tuesday: Rachel Scrandis and Austin Joyce
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Rachel Scrandis “A Summary of GSU-UE’s New Contract” and Austin Joyce

Broader Horizons: Hillary Child (Boston Consulting Group)
5:00–6:00 pm ERC 401
Hillary Child, Principal at Boston Consulting Group (PhD ’19, UChicago Physics)

KICP seminar: Philipp Frank (Max Planck Institute)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 501
Philipp Frank (Max Planck Institute) “Signal reconstruction for fields - a probabilistic perspective”

KICP Colloquium: Kai Schmitz (University of Münster)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Kai Schmitz (University of Münster) “New Physics at the Pulsar Timing Array Frontier”

2024-QUANT: Quantum Universe Workshop
Through March 28, 2024 ERC 401
This will be a small, focused, and hands-on workshop on quantum aspects of de Sitter space from March 26-28 at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago in Chicago.

KICP seminar: Gonzalo Herrera Moreno (Virginia Tech)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Gonzalo Herrera Moreno (Virginia Tech) “Boosted dark matter and attenuated cosmic rays around black holes”