2023
KICP seminar: Tri Nguyen (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Tri Nguyen (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research) “Decoding Dark Matter through the lens of Machine Learning”
Dark Matter Day
5:00–9:00 pm Adler Planetarium
This year Dark Matter Day will be held at Adler Planetarium as part of the “Adler at Night” series on Wednesday, November 1st from 5PM-9PM. Adler at Night is free to Illinois residents!
KICP Colloquium: Keith Bechtol (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Keith Bechtol (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Vera C. Rubin Observatory: from Commissioning to Cosmology”
Astro Tuesday: Mike Gladders
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 501
Mike Gladders “COOL-LAMPS at Year Five: Strong Lensing Discovery by Chicago Undergraduates”
Open Group Seminar: Akshara Viswanathan (Groningen/Flatiron)
3:30–4:00 pm ERC 517
Akshara Viswanathan (Groningen/Flatiron) “Tracing the Milky Way’s ancient footsteps: Insights from chemodynamical investigations of bright and distant metal-poor stars”
Open Group Seminar: Gerrit Farren (Cambridge)
1:30–2:00 pm ERC 445
Gerrit Farren (Cambridge) “The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Probing the large scale structure with ACT DR6 CMB lensing and cross-correlation with unWISE”
KICP seminar: Johannes Hubmayr (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Johannes Hubmayr (National Institute of Standards and Technology) “Cosmology as Enabled by Superconducting Detectors”
A&A Colloquium: Jamie Law-Smith (UChicago)
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
Jamie Law-Smith (UChicago) “Connecting string theory to astrophysics”
Astro Tuesday: Soren Spicknall
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Soren Spicknall “Never An Island: Unlearning Myths About the University, the Neighborhood, and Chicago”
Workshop "The Early Universe: A Window to New Physics"
Through October 22, 2023 University of Florida
The workshop “The Early Universe: A Window to New Physics” will be held October 20th - 22nd, 2023, at the University of Florida, supported by the Institute for Fundamental Theory, the Institute for High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, and the Department of Physics in the University of Florida, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics in the University of Chicago. The workshop will primarily focus on such topics as cosmic inflation, gravitational particle production, cosmic strings and domain walls in the early Universe. We would like to encourage you to register and submit an abstract for your talk. We look forward to seeing you this October!