2022

KICP seminar: Zhilei Xu (MIT)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Zhilei Xu (MIT) “Precision Cosmology: from CMB to 21cm”

KICP colloquium: Hugh Lippincott (UC Santa Barbara)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Hugh Lippincott (UC Santa Barbara) “First Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment”

Open group seminar: Nicola Bellomo (UT Austin)
10:30–11:30 am ERC401
Nicola Bellomo (UT Austin) “Understanding the nature of dark matter”

Open group seminar: Adam Samuels (Boston University)
3:00–4:00 pm ERC 517
Adam Samuels (Boston University) “Lopsided Satellite Distributions around Isolated Host Galaxies”

Open group seminar: Martin Millon (Stanford University and EPFL)
2:00–3:00 pm ERC 419
Martin Millon (Stanford University and EPFL) “Zooming in on quasar accretion disks with gravitational microlensing”
KICP seminar: Saniya Heeba (McGill University)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Saniya Heeba (McGill University) “Freezing-in a hot bath”

A&A Colloquium: Jacob Bean (UChicago)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Jacob Bean (UChicago) “Dawn of the JWST Exoplanet Era”

Astro Tuesday: Anastasia Sokolenko and Emily Lichko
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Anastasia Sokolenko “TeV halos and magnetic turbulences” and Emily Lichko “Differentiating between particle heating and energization processes in space and astrophysical plasmas”
Open Group Seminar: Erik Zaborowski (OSU) and Manuel Solimano (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)
2:00–3:00 pm ERC 419
Erik Zaborowski (Ohio State University) “Finding Strong Gravitational Lenses with Machine Learning in DELVE” and Manuel Solimano (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile) “The nature of a strongly-lensed pair of merging galaxies within a Lyman-α halo at z=3: insights from MUSE and ALMA”

KICP seminar: Moinul Rahat (University of Southampton)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Moinul Rahat (University of Southampton) “Gravitational wave signatures of massive vector boson production during inflation”