2023
PhD Thesis Defense: Adina Feinstein
3:00–4:00 pm ERC 401
Adina Feinstein “Young Stellar and Planetary Systems from the UV to the IR”
RockyFest: The Adventures of Rocky and Friends
Through March 19, 2023 ERC: 401, 501, 161
2023 RockyFest “The Adventures of Rocky and Friends” - an informal gathering of Rocky’s colleagues to share thoughts about science and have fun.
KICP seminar: Anže Slosar (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Anže Slosar (Brookhaven National Laboratory) “LuSEE-Night: a Pathfinder Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon”
KICP colloquium: Steven Prohira (University of Kansas)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Steven Prohira (University of Kansas) “Ultrahigh energy neutrino detection…with radar?”
Astro Tuesday: Ava Polzin and Karia Dibert
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Ava Polzin “The Phase Space of X-ray Transients Out to z = 1” and Karia Dibert “Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for CMB observation with the South Pole Telescope”
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”