2021
KICP seminar: Ken Ng (MIT)
11:30 am–12:30 pm ERC 401 & zoom
Ken Ng (MIT) “Search for ultralight bosons and primordial black holes with a population of binary black holes – the present and the future”
KICP colloquium: Clem Pryke (University of Minnesota)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Clem Pryke (University of Minnesota) “The Search for Inflationary B-modes: Latest Results from BICEP/Keck”
KICP Seminar: Arianna Long (UC Irvine)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Arianna Long (UC Irvine) “Missing Giants: The First Massive Galaxies Are Dust-Obscured”
A&A Colloquium: Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Exoplanet Ocean Water-Worlds: How salty?
In our quest to understand the formation, demographics, and evolution of
small planets (Earth-size to super-Earth-size), we need to understand water-rich exoplanets
and know how to distinguish them observationally. This talk will touch on some current
issues in modeling ocean water-worlds.
KICP Seminar: Anna Ho (UC Berkeley)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Anna Ho (UC Berkeley) “The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions”
KICP colloquium: Tongyan Lin ( UC San Diego)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Tongyan Lin ( UC San Diego) “14 billion years in the life of a dark matter particle”
KICP Seminar: Sophie Schroeder (Niels Bohr Institute)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Sophie Schroeder (Niels Bohr Institute) “Open questions in formation of compact binary star systems”
A&A Colloquium: Cole Miller (University of Maryland)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
A NICER path to neutron star radii
Precise and reliable measurements of neutron star radii are essential to our understanding of cold, catalyzed matter beyond nuclear saturation density. Recently, NASA’s Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) satellite has provided high-quality data sets that have yielded measurements of the mass (M=1.44+-0.15 Msun) and radius (R=13+1.2-1.0 km) of the 206 Hz pulsar PSR J0030+0451, and of the radius (R=13.7+2.6-1.5 km) of the M=2.08+-0.07 Msun, 346 Hz pulsar PSR J0740+6620. I will discuss our group’s work on these pulsars and will in particular discuss the assumptions that have gone into our analyses, to help the assessment of our results. I will also discuss the implications of our results for the properties of the dense matter in the cores of neutron stars.
A&A seminar: Ani Chiti (KICP) & Rebecca Deising (UChicago)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
This coming Tuesday we will have our first science talks in the Tuesday Lunch series.