2022
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”
Open group seminar: Francisco Ley (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 583
Francisco Ley (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Heating Galaxy Clusters at Smallest Scales, or How to Overtake Turbulence?”
Broader Horizons: Jean-Rene Gauthier (AI Platform Product Architect at Oracle)
4:00–5:00 pm ERC 401
Jean-Rene Gauthier (AI Platform Product Architect at Oracle) “My career path from astronomy to becoming an AI product architect”
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”