2023
Open Group Seminar: Veronika Vodeb (University of Nova Gorica)
3:00–4:00 pm ERC 445
Veronika Vodeb (University of Nova Gorica) “Detecting and characterizing pulsar haloes with the Cherenkov Telescope Array”
Workshop "Lensing at different scales: strong, weak, and synergies between the two"
Through August 4, 2023 ERC 401
This workshop will bring together researchers from both regimes of lensing to discuss such questions and prepare the community to overcome the outstanding challenges with data from the next generation facilities. The workshop will have a balanced mixture of talks and discussions with ample time for collaboration in breakout groups.
Space Talk: Kenneth Sembach (STScI)
12:00–1:00 pm Zoom
Kenneth Sembach (STScI) “Rewriting Cosmic History: James Webb Space Telescope”
PhD Thesis Defense: Georgios Zacharegkas
10:00–11:00 am ERC 501
Georgios Zacharegkas “Modeling the non-linear scales in Cosmology via the galaxy-halo connection with applications in DES Y3”
PhD Thesis Defense: Clarke Esmerian
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Clarke Esmerian “Modeling Dust Production, Growth, and Destruction in Reionization-Era Galaxies”
Open Group Seminar: Emily Biermann (University of Pittsburgh)
1:00–2:00 pm ERC 401
Emily Biermann (University of Pittsburgh) “The Millimeter Transient Sky”
Particle Theory Seminar: Lingfeng Li (Brown University)
1:30–2:30 pm MCP 201
Lingfeng Li (Brown University) “New inflationary probes of axion dark matter”
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”