2019
KICP colloquium - Laura Newburgh, Yale University
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Laura Newburgh, Yale University, “New Probes of Old Structure: Cosmology with 21cm Intensity Mapping and the Cosmic Microwave Background”
IDEA -- Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Astronomy meeting (Astronomy & Astrophysics | KICP)
11:30 am–1:00 pm ERC 583
Chalk Talk: Ting Li (Fermilab/KICP) & Huanqing Chen (UChicago)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Ting Li (Fermilab/KICP): “S5-HVS1: A 1700 km/s hyper velocity star discovered by the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey”
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Huanqing Chen “Quasars in Cosmic Reionization”
Thanksgiving Break
All day
Milky Way Discussion Group
2:00–3:00 pm ERC 419
KICP Open Group Seminar: Jonathan Blazek, EPFL
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 401
Jonathan Blazek, EPFL, “Fun with Intrinsic Alignments: Exploring Beyond LCDM with Cosmological Surveys”
A&A Cookies, Coffee and Conversation
2:30–3:30 pm Hubble Lounge (ERC 501)
KICP seminar: Pitam Mitra, University of Washington
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Pitam Mitra, University of Washington, “Single electron charge resolution with the first prototypes of DAMIC-M skipper CCD’s”
A&A Colloquium: Raffaella Margutti, Northwestern University
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
“Discovery frontiers in the new era of Time Domain Multi-Messenger Astrophysics”
New and improved observational facilities are sampling the night sky with unprecedented temporal cadence and sensitivity across the electromagnetic spectrum. This exercise led to the discovery of new types of astronomical transients and revolutionized our understanding of phenomena that we thought we already knew. In this talk I will review some very recent developments in the field that resulted from the capability to acquire a true panchromatic view of the most extreme stellar deaths in nature, including the new class of fast and blue optical transients and extreme episodes of mass-loss in the years leading up to stellar death.