2022
KICP seminar: Gautam Venugopalan (Stanford University)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Gautam Venugopalan (Stanford University) “Suspended animation - optical tweezers as a fundamental physics probe”
KICP seminar: Andrina Nicola (Princeton University)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Andrina Nicola (Princeton University) “Cosmological probe combination for current and future surveys”
KICP colloquium: Christopher Tully (Princeton University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Christopher Tully (Princeton University) “PTOLEMY: Experimental Quest to Detect Relic Neutrinos from the Big Bang”
Astro Tuesday Talks
12:00–1:00 pm Zoom or ERC 401
For Tuesday lunch talks we will hear some information about JWST, and some of the planned science by members of the department.
KICP seminar: Giovanni Cabass (Institute for Advanced Study)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Giovanni Cabass (Institute for Advanced Study) “Constraints on Single-Field Inflation from the BOSS Galaxy Survey”
A&A Colloquium: Vasily Belokurov (Cambridge)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161 - For zoom info please contact Laticia at lrebeles@oddjob.uchicago.edu
Lessons on galaxy transformations from Gaia
With its most recent data releases, European Space Agency’s Gaia mission revealed the fossilised record of a dramatic - and long suspected - accretion event in the distant past of our Galaxy. This head-on collision with a massive dwarf galaxy was a turning point in the evolution of the Milky Way and unleashed a series of transformations that forever changed the Galaxy. This unprecedented metamorphosis is the focus of this talk. I will discuss the time, the geometry and the kinematics of the interaction, and elucidate the response of the Milky Way to the massive intruder.
KICP seminar: Alvine Kamaha (UCLA)
12:00–1:00 pm Zoom
Alvine Kamaha (UCLA) “Searching for Dark Matter With LUX-ZEPLIN”
KICP colloquium: J. Colin Hill (Columbia University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
J. Colin Hill (Columbia University) “Searching for New Physics in the Universe’s Oldest Light with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope”
KICP seminar: Yuanyuan Zhang (Texas A&M University)
12:00–1:00 pm Zoom
Yuanyuan Zhang (Texas A&M University) “Studying the Faint Diffuse Stellar Envelope of Galaxy Clusters: Challenges, Results and Future Prospect”