2025
Open SkAI 2025 Conference
Through September 5, 2025 SkAI Hub, 875 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago
We are happy to announce the inaugural conference, “Open SkAI 2025,” of the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI Institute), which will take place from Tuesday, September 2 through Friday, September 5, 2025. The Open SkAI Conference is an annual four-day event to enhance and stimulate new Astro-AI research directions. This conference will facilitate new collaborative activities between the AI industry, astronomers, and AI researchers, and stimulate new directions in community software and Astro-AI research.
Fundamental Physics Across the Gravitational-Wave Spectrum Workshop
Through August 22, 2025 ERC 401
The goal of the workshop is to foster interdisciplinary ideas and new collaborations by bringing together experts from across gravitational wave subfields to discuss the state of the field and what we can learn using gravitational waves as a tool, now and in the coming years. Topics will include primordial backgrounds, compact binaries, pulsar timing arrays, and next generation experiments.
Registration required.
Honors Thesis Presentation: Emory Murff
11:30 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
The Abundance and Character of Massive Strong Lensing Clusters at z~1, Observed and Simulated
Honors Thesis Presentation: Daniel Babnigg
11:00–11:30 am ERC 401
Processing Pipeline for IFU Observations of Extreme Strongly Lensed Galaxies
Honors Thesis Presentation: Sarah Grannis
10:30–11:00 am ERC 401
Thirteen Strongly Lensed, Highly Star-forming Galaxies in the Distant Cosmos
Honors Thesis Presentation: Paxson Swierc
10:00–10:30 am ERC 401
Machine Learning Analysis of Ions Accelerated at Shocks
KICP Seminar - Chi Nguyen
11:00 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Chi Nguyen (Caltech) will give the KICP Seminar at 11am on 5/29 in ERC 401 and via Zoom.
A&A Colloquium - Paula Jofre
3:30–5:00 pm ERC 161
Paula Jofre (Universidad Diego Portales (UDP)) will give the A&A colloquium on 5/28 at 3:30pm in ERC 161 and via Zoom.
Honors Thesis Presentation: Joseph Yeung
11:30 am–12:00 pm ERC 401
Particle Production in the Cosmological Wavefunction