Past Events

2023

Open Group Seminar: Masaya Yamamoto (Duke University) and Daniel Gilman (UChicago)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 401

Masaya Yamamoto (Duke University) “Cosmic Shear with Roman: Challenges and Lookouts on How to Deliver Cosmology with Space-Based Data” and Daniel Gilman (UChicago) “A guided tour of dark matter physics with quadruply-imaged quasars”

Nov 30

KICP seminar: Steve Sclafani (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Steve Sclafani (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Mapping the Milky Way Galaxy in high-energy neutrinos”

Nov 30

A&A Colloquium: Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin) “Searching for a Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing Arrays”

Nov 29

Astro Tuesday: Austin Joyce (UChicago) and Wynn Jacobson-Galán (Berkeley)

12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501

Austin Joyce (UChicago) and Wynn Jacobson-Galán (Berkeley) “Observational Properties and Physical Modeling of ‘Flash Spectroscopy’ Supernovae”

Nov 28

The 33rd Midwest Relativity Meeting

Through November 18, 2023 ERC 161

The 33rd Midwest Relativity Meeting will be held at the University of Chicago on Nov. 17-18, 2023. The Midwest Relativity Meetings bring together researchers from across the Midwest and beyond to discuss a broad range of topics in gravitational physics, including cosmology, gravitational waves, numerical relativity, and quantum gravity. The primary focus of this meeting is on graduate students and postdocs, all of whom are encouraged to give talks. The Blue Apple Award, sponsored by APS DGRAV, will be given for the best graduate student talk.

Nov 17

KICP seminar: Rahul Datta (UChicago)

11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401

Rahul Datta (UChicago) “Measuring the large angular scale CMB with CLASS”

Nov 16

A&A Colloquium: Robert Simcoe (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)

3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161

Robert Simcoe (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research) “The Emergence of Circumgalactic Heavy Elements in the First Gyr with JWST/EIGER”

Nov 15

Astro Tuesday: Meng-Xiang Lin (Penn) and Lucas Secco (UChicago)

12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501

Meng-Xiang Lin (Penn) “Dark Energy Tracking Modification of Structure Growth and the S8 tension” and Lucas Secco (UChicago) “Large Language Models for Physicists”

Nov 14

Open Group Seminar: Eltha Yu-Hsuan Teng (University of California San Diego)

4:00–5:00 pm ERC 517

Eltha Yu-Hsuan Teng (University of California San Diego) “Revealing the Drivers of CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor Variation and its Impact on Star Formation Efficiency across Nearby Galaxies”

Nov 13

Open Group Seminar: Georgios Valogiannis (University of Chicago)

4:00–5:00 pm ERC 401

Georgios Valogiannis (University of Chicago) “Precise Cosmological Constraints from BOSS Galaxy Clustering with the Wavelet Scattering Transform”

Nov 9