2023
Physics Colloquium: Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago)
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago) “The Hubble Tension: Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?”
KICP seminar: Chia-Hsien Shen (UC San Diego)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Chia-Hsien Shen (UC San Diego) “Particle Physics Tools for the Sky”
KICP colloquium: Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)
3:30–4:30 am ERC 161
Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University) “Galactic Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter”
Astro Tuesday: Michael Zevin (KICP) and Aditya Vijaykumar (UChicago)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Michael Zevin (KICP) “The eccentric journey of black holes in star clusters” and Aditya Vijaykumar (UChicago) “Waltzing binaries: Probing line-of-sight acceleration of compact binary mergers”
KICP seminar: Martine Lokken (University of Toronto)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Martine Lokken (University of Toronto) “Boundless Baryons: the anisotropic superclustering of cosmic gas”
KICP colloquium: Craig Hogan (University of Chicago)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Craig Hogan (University of Chicago) “How quantum mechanics can help cosmologists solve their problems”
Astro Tuesday: Madison Brady and Giulia Giannini
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Madison Brady “Measuring Stellar Obliquity with the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect” and Giulia Giannini “Why are photometric redshifts so hard?”
KICP seminar: Kyle Dawson (University of Utah)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Kyle Dawson (University of Utah) “Cosmology with Spectroscopic Surveys”
KICP colloquium: Dan Carney (Berkeley National Lab)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Dan Carney (Berkeley National Lab) “The search for new physics at the quantum limits of measurement”