2022
KICP seminar: Tom Callister (Flatiron Institute)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Tom Callister (Flatiron Institute) “A Gravitational-Wave Tour of the Compact Binary Population”
KICP colloquium: Laura Newburgh (Yale University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Laura Newburgh (Yale University) “Detection of 21cm emission from Large Scale Structure with CHIME”
Astro Tuesday: Alex Ji and Sam McDermott
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Alex Ji “Dwarf Galaxy Archaeology in the Gaia Era” and Sam McDermott “Degenerate Fermions… In Space!”
KICP seminar: Tanvi Karwal (University of Pennsylvania)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Tanvi Karwal (University of Pennsylvania) “The Hubble tension and theoretical, new-physics solutions”
A&A Colloquium: Irina Zhuravleva (University of Chicago)
3:30–4:30 pm
Transitioning from a “Static” View of Galaxy Clusters into a Full Dynamic Picture
Astro Tuesday: Luke Kelley (Northwestern University)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Luke Kelley (Northwestern University) “Binary Massive Black Holes, Active Galactic Nuclei, and Gravitational Waves”
EFI colloquium: Robert Wald (UChicago)
3:30–4:30 pm MCP 201
Robert Wald (UChicago) “Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and Information Loss”
KICP seminar: Selim Hotinli (Johns Hopkins University)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Selim Hotinli (Johns Hopkins University) “Fundamental physics from remote velocity and quadrupole reconstruction with the cosmic microwave background and galaxy surveys”
KICP colloquium: Alex Drlica-Wagner (University of Chicago)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Alex Drlica-Wagner (University of Chicago) “Fundamental Physics from Observations of Faint Galaxies”
Astro Tuesday: Mandy Chen and Elena Pinetti
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Mandy Chen “Spatially-resolved kinematics of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in active halos” and Elena Pinetti “A new path for dark matter searches: cross-correlation between gamma rays and gravitational tracers of the matter distribution”