Past Events

2024

Astro Tuesday: Josh Frieman

12:00–1:00 pm

Josh Frieman “Is Dark Energy Evolving?”

Apr 9

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”

Apr 4

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”

Apr 4

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”

Apr 3

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

Apr 2

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)

Mar 28

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”

Mar 28

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”

Mar 27

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.

Mar 26

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”

Mar 21