2024
Open Group Seminar: Santi Agüí Salcedo (University of Cambridge)
12:30–1:30 pm ERC 401
Santi Agüí Salcedo (University of Cambridge) “The Cosmological Tree Theorem”
A&A Colloquium: Gerry Gilmore and Gudrun Tausch-Pebody
3:30–4:30 pm
Gerry Gilmore and Gudrun Tausch-Pebody “Early light-bending tests of General Relativity”
Brinson Lecture 2023-2024: Gerry Gilmore (University of Cambridge)
6:00–7:30 pm Venue SIX10, 610 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605
Gerard Gilmore (University of Cambridge)
Honors Thesis Presentations: Riley Rosener, Rohan Gupta, Kyla Mullaney, Jonah Medoff, Laine Hirn, and Audrey Scott
1:30–4:30 pm ERC 401
Riley Rosener “On the Detectability of Emission from Exoplanet Outflows”;
Rohan Gupta “Wavelength Calibration of the Extreme Precision Radial Velocity Spectrograph MAROON-X using a Laser Frequency Comb and a Fabry-Perot etalon”;
Kyla Mullaney “Simulating the Evolution of Sub-Neptune Planets Including Both Photo-evaporation and Magma-Atmosphere Hydrogen Exchange”;
Jonah Medoff “Searching for Dwarf Galaxy Satellites of NGC 55 with the DELVE-DEEP Survey”;
Laine Hirn “Characterizing the Turbulent Circumgalactic Gas Using Integral Field Spectroscopy”;
Audrey Scott “Characterization of Optical Coupling for polarization-sensitive mm-Wave Line Intensity Mapping Spectrometers”
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”