2024
Broader Horizons: Hillary Child (Boston Consulting Group)
5:00–6:00 pm ERC 401
Hillary Child, Principal at Boston Consulting Group (PhD ’19, UChicago Physics)
KICP seminar: Philipp Frank (Max Planck Institute)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 501
Philipp Frank (Max Planck Institute) “Signal reconstruction for fields - a probabilistic perspective”
KICP Colloquium: Kai Schmitz (University of Münster)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Kai Schmitz (University of Münster) “New Physics at the Pulsar Timing Array Frontier”
2024-QUANT: Quantum Universe Workshop
Through March 28, 2024 ERC 401
This will be a small, focused, and hands-on workshop on quantum aspects of de Sitter space from March 26-28 at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago in Chicago.
KICP seminar: Gonzalo Herrera Moreno (Virginia Tech)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Gonzalo Herrera Moreno (Virginia Tech) “Boosted dark matter and attenuated cosmic rays around black holes”
A&A Colloquium: Charlie Conroy (Harvard University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Charlie Conroy (Harvard University) “Assembling our Galaxy”
Astro Tuesday: Philipp Windischhofer (UChicago) and Kim Berghaus (Caltech)
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Philipp Windischhofer (UChicago) “Information Engines—When Computers meet Carnot” and Kim Berghaus (Caltech)
PhD Thesis Defense: Wei Quan
2:00–3:00 pm ERC 401
Wei Quan “ANALYSIS OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE AND E-MODE POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY WITH 2019 AND 2020 DATA FROM THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE”
KICP seminar: Abhishek Maniyar (Stanford University)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Abhishek Maniyar (Stanford University) “First detection of the patchy screening of the CMB photons”
KICP Colloquium: Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University) “Cosmology reconsidered”