2023
Astro Tuesday: Dhayaa Anbajagane and Rich Kron
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Dhayaa Anbajagane “Painting baryons onto halos: accessing small-scale astrophysics from large-scale datasets” and Rich Kron “Time-domain Science from Early Photographs”
KICP workshop: "Next-generation gamma-ray searches for dark matter"
Through June 1, 2023 KPTC 106
The goal of the meeting is to discuss the enticing opportunities offered by gamma-ray experiments and how they can best be utilized to discover or constrain dark matter.
PhD Thesis Defense: Rebecca Diesing
1:00–2:00 pm ERC 401
Rebecca Diesing “Unraveling Particle Acceleration and the Nonthermal Universe”
Honors Thesis Presentation - Marcos Tamargo-Arizmendi
11:00–11:30 am ERC 401
Marcos Tamargo-Arizmendi “Constraining Dark Matter Halo Truncation In Cluster Galaxies After Infall Through Strong Lensing Perturbations”
Advisor: Mike Gladders
Honors Thesis Presentation - Grace Wagner
10:30–11:00 am ERC 401
Grace Wagner “JWST NIRCam Calibrations for TEMPLATES-SGAS1723 & SGAS1226 with Extant HST & Spitzer Imaging and Bayesian SED Fitting”
Advisor: Mike Gladders
Honors Thesis Presentation - Nathalie Chicoine
10:00–10:30 am ERC 401
Nathalie Chicoine “Weak Gravitational Lensing of Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxies in DES Y3 Catalog”
Advisors: Chihway Chang and Judit Prat
Honors Thesis Presentation - Simon Mork
4:00–4:30 pm ERC 401
Simon Mork “Harnessing Strong Gravitational Lensing to Constrain Mass and Light in Galaxy Clusters”
Advisor: Mike Gladders
Honors Thesis Presentation - Aidan Cloonan
3:30–4:00 pm ERC 401
Aidan Cloonan “Insights into Co-evolution of Quasars and Their Host Galaxies from Wide-Separation Lensed Quasars”
Advisor: Mike Gladders
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”