2023
KICP seminar: Colin Burke (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Colin Burke (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) “Optical variability of intermediate-mass black holes and implications for their identification”
KICP colloquium: Julio Navarro (University of Victoria)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Julio Navarro (University of Victoria) “Going Non-Linear: Contrasting LCDM with the internal properties of galaxies”
Honors Thesis Presentation - Diego Garza
11:00–11:30 am ERC 401
Diego Garza “Estimating Splashback Radius of Cluster-sized Dark Matter Halos”
Advisor: Andrey Kravtsov
Honors Thesis Presentation - Yue Pan
10:30–11:00 am ERC 401
Yue Pan “Modeling Stochastic Star Formation History of Dwarf Galaxies in GRUMPY”
Advisor: Andrey Kravtsov
Honors Thesis Presentation - Alex Masegian
10:00–10:30 am ERC 401
Alex Masegian “Constraining Models of Dwarf Galaxy Evolution with Observations and Bayesian Statistics”
Advisor: Andrey Kravtsov
Astro Tuesday: Benedikt Schroer and Steve Kent
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Benedikt Schroer “Cosmic Ray Bubbles around Sources” and Steve Kent “In Search of a Missing Airliner”
Honors Thesis Presentation - Rowen Glusman
12:30–1:00 pm ERC 401
Rowen Glusman “Searching for Young Exoplanets in TESS Data”
Advisors: Jacob Bean and Adina Feinstein
Honors Thesis Presentation - Devin Hoover
12:00–12:30 pm ERC 401
Devin Hoover “The Population of Interstellar Objects Detectable with the LSST and NEO Surveyor”
Advisor: Jacob Bean
Honors Thesis Presentation - Charlie Willard
11:30 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Charlie Willard “Simulated Evolution of Sub-Neptune Exoplanets: Coupling the Magma Ocean and H/He Envelope”
Advisor: Leslie Rogers
KICP seminar: Nicolas Garavito-Camargo (Center for Computational Astrophysics)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Nicolas Garavito-Camargo (Center for Computational Astrophysics) “On the dynamical disequilibrium state of the Milky Way and the nature of the Dark Matter halo”