2023
KICP seminar: Thomas Edwards (Johns Hopkins)
10:30–11:30 am ERC 401
Thomas Edwards (Johns Hopkins) “Enhancing Gravitational Wave Science with Differentiable Models and New Physics Searches”
KICP Colloquium: Liang Dai (UC Berkeley)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Liang Dai (UC Berkeley) “Looking for Axion Particles In the Universe”
Capturing The Stars: The Untold History Of Women At Yerkes Observatory
1:00–2:00 pm Virtual
Join the UChicago Space Network in conversation with science historian Kris Palmieri and astrophysicist Richard G. Kron about the ways the University is spotlighting women astronomers who contributed to groundbreaking stargazing at the famed Yerkes Observatory during the early twentieth century.
Astro Tuesday: Hayden Lee (KICP) and Rich Kron (UChicago)
12:00–1:00 pm
Hayden Lee (KICP) “A timeless approach to cosmological correlators” and Rich Kron (UChicago) “The Untold History of Women at Yerkes Observatory”
Open Group Seminar: Wynn Jacobson-Galan (UC Berkeley)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 545
Wynn Jacobson-Galan (UC Berkeley) “SN 2023ixf: The Closest Supernova in a Decade”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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.