2022
KICP Postdoc Symposium
1:00–3:30 pm ERC 501
Everyone in KICP and A&A is welcome and encouraged to attend! The goal of the event is to bring together the community, and let postdocs introduce our work to, and hopefully create collaborations with, our colleagues, students and faculty members.
Open Group Seminar: Giulia Giannini (UChicago/KICP)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 501
Giulia Giannini (UChicago/KICP) “Photometric redshift calibration in the Dark Energy Survey”
KICP seminar: Claire-Alice Hebert (Stanford University)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Claire-Alice Hebert (Stanford University) “Cosmic shear, or atmosphere? Testing assumptions about point-spread functions”
KICP colloquium: Ke Fang (University of Wisconsin)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Ke Fang (University of Wisconsin) “The Hunt for PeVatrons”
Astro Tuesday: Hayden Lee and Michael Zhang
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Hayden Lee “Building gravitational waves from gluons” and Michael Zhang “What are exoplanet atmospheres made of anyhow?”
Open Group Seminar: Qiuyue Liang (University of Pennsylvania)
10:30–11:30 am ERC 419
Qiuyue Liang (University of Pennsylvania) “Neutrino-Assisted Early Dark Energy: Theory and Cosmology”
KICP seminar: John Stout (Harvard University)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
John Stout (Harvard University) “Ionization of Gravitational Atoms”
A&A Colloquium: Jeff Kuhn
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) and Beyond: New Frontiers for Coronagraphic Telescopes.
Prof. Jeff Kuhn
Astronomy, University of Hawaii, CEO MorphOptic, Inc.
Astro Tuesday: Christoph Welling and Joshua Frieman
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Christoph Welling “Finding UHE neutrinos with the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland” and Joshua Frieman “How Many Angels Dancing on the Head of a Pin does it Take to Solve the Hubble Tension?”
Fermilab Seminar: Valerio De Luca (University of Pennsylvania)
2:00–3:00 pm Fermilab (Curia II) & zoom
Valerio De Luca (University of Pennsylvania) “Black Holes from the Early Universe”