2024
Honors Thesis Presentations: Megan Zhao
10:30–11:00 am ERC 401
Megan Zhao “Convolutional Neural Network for Type Ia Supernova Distance Estimation”
Broader Horizons: Dimitrios Tanoglidis (Senior ML Scientist, Walgreens)
5:00–6:00 pm ERC 401
Dimitrios Tanoglidis, Senior ML Scientist, Walgreens (PhD, A&A 2022)
KICP seminar: Arianna Long (University of Washington)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Arianna Long (University of Washington) “The Fall of Giants: How to Build and Kill Massive Galaxies in the Early Cosmos”
KICP Colloquium: Katerina Chatziioannou (Caltech)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Katerina Chatziioannou (Caltech) “Studying neutron stars with gravitational waves”
Astro Tuesday: Rich Kron and Gordan Krnjaic
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Rich Kron “The 1900’s Conception of the Structure of the Milky Way” and Gordan Krnjaic “Running away from the cosmic coincidence problem”.
Honors Thesis Presentation: Nikita Munsif
12:30–1:00 pm ERC 401
Nikita Munsif “The Hertzsprung-Russell-Maury Diagram?: A Telescopic History of Stellar Evolution”
Open Group Seminar: Vittoria Vecchiotti (NTNU)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 545
Vittoria Vecchiotti (NTNU) “The high-energy Galactic gamma-ray emission: the diffuse component and the role of unresolved pulsar wind nebulae”
KICP Cosmology Lunch (Thunch)
12:15–1:15 pm ERC 445
Please join us for an informal lunch discussion, led by KICP fellows, of recent news and papers in cosmology. Topics range from experiment and observations to theory in all areas of KICP science.
KICP seminar: Thomas Steingasser (MIT)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Thomas Steingasser (MIT) “Higgs criticality in and beyond the SM”
A&A Colloquium: Irina Zhuravleva (University of Chicago)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Irina Zhuravleva (University of Chicago) “Multi-Scale Physics of Hot Halos”