2024
Open Group Seminar: Francisco Ley (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 545
Francisco Ley (University of Wisconsin - Madison) “Secondary Whistler and Ion-cyclotron Instabilities driven by Mirror Modes in Galaxy Clusters”
KICP seminar: Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (Flatiron Institute)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (Flatiron Institute) “Cosmic Magnetic Shear of Blazars”
KICP Colloquium: Michael Niemack (Cornell University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Michael Niemack (Cornell University) “New windows in the submillimeter sky with the CCAT Observatory”
AI+Science Series: Logan Ward (Argonne National Laboratory)
4:30–6:00 pm ERC 401
Logan Ward (Argonne National Laboratory) “Rethinking Computational Science with Artificial Intelligence”
PhD Thesis Defense: Fei Xu "Peeking Into the Future of Dark Matter Searches"
2:00–3:00 pm ERC 401
Fei Xu “Peeking Into the Future of Dark Matter Searches”
A&A Colloquium: Eliza Kempton (University of Maryland)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Eliza Kempton (University of Maryland) “Revealing the Atmospheres of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes with JWST”
2023
Open Group Seminar: Xinyi Chen (Yale University)
10:00–11:00 am ERC 401
Xinyi Chen (Yale University) “Probing primordial non-Gaussianity by reconstructing the initial conditions with machine learning”
Open Group Seminar: Yuan-Sen Ting (Australian National University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 401
Yuan-Sen Ting (Australian National University) “Can Artificial Intelligence Generate Meaningful Scientific Hypotheses?”
KICP seminar: Thomas Edwards (Johns Hopkins)
10:30–11:30 am ERC 401
Thomas Edwards (Johns Hopkins) “Enhancing Gravitational Wave Science with Differentiable Models and New Physics Searches”
KICP Colloquium: Liang Dai (UC Berkeley)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Liang Dai (UC Berkeley) “Looking for Axion Particles In the Universe”