2023
Open Group Seminar: Anya Nugent (Northwestern)
3:30–4:00 pm ERC 545
Anya Nugent (Northwestern) “Characterizing the Host Environments of Short GRBs: From the Ultra Faint to the Highest-Redshift”
KICP seminar: Tri Nguyen (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Tri Nguyen (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research) “Decoding Dark Matter through the lens of Machine Learning”
Dark Matter Day
5:00–9:00 pm Adler Planetarium
This year Dark Matter Day will be held at Adler Planetarium as part of the “Adler at Night” series on Wednesday, November 1st from 5PM-9PM. Adler at Night is free to Illinois residents!
KICP Colloquium: Keith Bechtol (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Keith Bechtol (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Vera C. Rubin Observatory: from Commissioning to Cosmology”
Astro Tuesday: Mike Gladders
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Mike Gladders “COOL-LAMPS at Year Five: Strong Lensing Discovery by Chicago Undergraduates”
Open Group Seminar: Akshara Viswanathan (Groningen/Flatiron)
3:30–4:00 pm ERC 517
Akshara Viswanathan (Groningen/Flatiron) “Tracing the Milky Way’s ancient footsteps: Insights from chemodynamical investigations of bright and distant metal-poor stars”
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”
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”
A&A Colloquium: Jamie Law-Smith (UChicago)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Jamie Law-Smith (UChicago) “Connecting string theory to astrophysics”
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”