Past Events

2023

Open Group Seminar: Gerrit Farren (Cambridge)

1:30–2:00 pm ERC 445

Gerrit Farren (Cambridge) “The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the large scale structure with ACT DR6 CMB lensing and cross-correlation with unWISE”

Oct 26

KICP seminar: Johannes Hubmayr (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Johannes Hubmayr (National Institute of Standards and Technology) “Cosmology as Enabled by Superconducting Detectors”

Oct 26

A&A Colloquium: Jamie Law-Smith (UChicago)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Jamie Law-Smith (UChicago) “Connecting string theory to astrophysics”

Oct 25

Astro Tuesday: Soren Spicknall

12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401

Soren Spicknall “Never An Island: Unlearning Myths About the University, the Neighborhood, and Chicago”

Oct 24

Workshop "The Early Universe: A Window to New Physics"

Through October 22, 2023 University of Florida

The workshop “The Early Universe: A Window to New Physics” will be held October 20th - 22nd, 2023, at the University of Florida, supported by the Institute for Fundamental Theory, the Institute for High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, and the Department of Physics in the University of Florida, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics in the University of Chicago. The workshop will primarily focus on such topics as cosmic inflation, gravitational particle production, cosmic strings and domain walls in the early Universe. We would like to encourage you to register and submit an abstract for your talk. We look forward to seeing you this October!

Oct 20

Open Group Seminar: Suchetha Cooray (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 401

Suchetha Cooray (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) “A forward modeling approach to understanding the light from galaxies”

Oct 19

KICP seminar: Sofie Koksbang (University of Southern Denmark)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Sofie Koksbang (University of Southern Denmark) “Observational effects of cosmic backreaction with concrete abstract cosmology and machine learning”

Oct 19

KICP Colloquium: James Buckley (Washington University in St. Louis)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

James Buckley (Washington University in St. Louis) “The Advanced Particle-astrophysics Telescope (APT)”

Oct 18

Open Group Seminar: Haowen Zhang (University of Arizona)

3:00–4:00 pm ERC 415

Haowen Zhang (University of Arizona) “TRINITY: the Dark Matter Halo—Galaxy—Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) Connection from z=0-10”

Oct 13

KICP seminar: Hannah Fronenberg (McGill University)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Hannah Fronenberg (McGill University) “Constraining Cosmology With CMB and LIM Lensing”

Oct 12