Welcome to the KICP seminars page! This seminar series is hosted by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. Our goal is to give early career scientists a venue to share their work and connect to the KICP and UChicago community. We invite speakers from all over who have interest in understanding the evolution of the Universe and it's laws. This includes topics in CMB, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Astroparticle Physics, Structure Formation, Early Universe, and beyond.
Organizers:
Anirudh Chiti, KICP and Brinson Prize Fellow Bio | Contact
Patricio Gallardo, KICP Fellow Bio | Contact
Hayden Lee, KICP Fellow Bio | Contact
Anastasia Sokolenko, KICP Fellow Bio | Contact
Austin Joyce, Faculty Advisor Bio | Contact
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Ethan Nadler (Carnegie Observatory & USC)
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Benjamin Lehmann (MIT)
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Lingyuan Ji (Berkeley)
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Eve Vavagiakis (Cornell)
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Dan Baxter (Fermilab)
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Benjamin Wallisch (OKC & UT Austin)
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Nicolas Garavito Camargo (Center for Computational Astrophysics)
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Anže Slosar (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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Chia-Hsien Shen (UC San Diego)
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Martine Lokken (University of Toronto)
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Kyle Dawson (University of Utah)
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Will Coulton (Center for Computational Astrophysics)
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Tarraneh Eftekhari (Northwestern University)
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Gabriela Sato-Polito (Johns Hopkins University)
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Keir Rogers (University of Toronto)
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Ming-Feng Ho (UC Riverside)
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Claire-Alice Hebert (Stanford) Cosmic shear, or atmosphere? Testing assumptions about point-spread functions
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John Stout (Harvard) Ionization of Gravitational Atoms
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Zhilei Xu (MIT) Precision Cosmology: from CMB to 21cm
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Saniya Heeba (McGill) Freezing-in a hot bath
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Moinul Rahat (Florida) Gravitational wave signatures of massive vector boson production during inflation
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Nathan Sandford (UC Berkeley) Stellar Chemistry in the Faintest and Farthest Local Group Galaxies
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Patrick Breysse (NYU), First results from the CO Mapping Array Project
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Federico Bianchini (Stanford), The view of large scale structure from the South Pole Telescope
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Sylvia Biscoveanu (MIT), From black holes to the Big Bang: astrophysics and cosmology with gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts
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Nicolas Fernandez (UIUC), Freeze-in, glaciation, and UV sensitivity from light mediators.
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Dongzi Li (Caltech), The mystery of fast radio burst, the potential and the limit
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Thomas Callister (Flatiron Institute CCA), A gravitational-wave tour of the compact binary population
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Tanvi Karwal (UPenn), The Hubble tension and theoretical, new-physics solutions
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Selim Hotinli (JHU), Fundamental physics from remote velocity and quadrupole reconstruction with the cosmic microwave background and galaxy surveys
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Nick Kokron (Stanford), Improving models of structure formation statistics by combining perturbation theory and simulations
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Meredith Durbin (University of Washington), Nailing the Near-IR Tip of the Red Giant Branch with HST: Status, Prospects, and Challenges
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Shany Danieli (Princeton), Towards a better understanding of low-mass galaxies beyond the Local Group
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Gautam Venugopalan (Stanford), Suspended animation - optical tweezers as a fundamental physics probe
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Andrina Nicola (Princeton), Cosmological probe combination for current and future surveys
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Giovanni Cabass (IAS), Constraints on Single-Field Inflation from the BOSS Galaxy Survey
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Alvine Kamaha (UCLA), Searching for Dark Matter With LUX-ZEPLIN
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Yuanyuan Zhang (TAMU), Studying the Faint Diffuse Stellar Envelope of Galaxy Clusters: Challenges, Results and Future Prospect
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YueYing Ni (CMU), Cosmological simulations from the cosmic web to supermassive black holes
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Daniel Gilman (University of Toronto), Fundamental dark matter physics with strong gravitational lenses
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Julian B. Muñoz (Harvard), Cosmic Dawn: The next frontier in cosmology
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Maria Vincenzi (Duke), Present and future of SN Ia cosmology: from the Dark Energy Survey to the Vera Rubin Observatory
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Carles Sanchez (Penn), Pushing the limits of the Dark Energy Survey: Selecting and characterizing high redshift galaxy samples for optimal CMB lensing cross-correlations
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Morgane Konig (MIT & Dartmouth College), A theory of Hybrid monodromy inflation with two fields
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Ken Ng (MIT), Search for ultralight bosons and primordial black holes with a population of binary black holes – the present and the future
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Arianna Long (UC Irvine), Missing Giants: The First Massive Galaxies Are Dust-Obscured
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Anna Ho (UC Berkeley), The Landscape of Relativistic Stellar Explosions
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Sophie Schroeder (Niels Bohr Institute), Open questions in formation of compact binary star systems
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Arianna Renzini (Caltech), Mapping gravitational-wave backgrounds: investigations in LIGO and prospects for LISA
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Ben Thorne (UCSD), A Bayesian approach to CMB lensing reconstruction and galactic foreground removal
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Jose Luis Bernal (Johns Hopkins), The trouble with H0 (and beyond)
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Katelin Schutz (MIT), Making dark matter out of light: the cosmology of sub-MeV freeze-in
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Joshua Speagle (University of Toronto), Cosmological cartography with photometric redshifts
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Mikhail Ivanov (NYU), Fundamental cosmology from galaxy clustering
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Vincent Vennin (APC, Paris University), Quantum diffusion during cosmic inflation
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Greg Mosby (NASA), Simplifying the analysis of galaxy star formation histories and near-infrared detectors
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Pranava Teja Surukuchi (Yale), Direct measurement of neutrino mass with the Project 8 Experiment
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Djuna Croon (TRIUMF), New physics and the black hole mass gap
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Anna-Christina Eilers (MIT), The formation and growth of supermassive black Holes
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Suhail Dhawan (Stockholm/KICC, Cambridge), Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae: A view from the Zwicky Transient Facility
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Giuseppe Puglisi (UC Berkeley), Extending Galactic foreground models for CMB with adversarial networks
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Yun-Ting Cheng (Caltech), Cosmology and astrophysics with intensity mapping
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Christina Gao (Fermilab), Axion searches with two superconducting radio frequency cavities
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Weishuang (Linda) Xu (Harvard), Thermal dark sectors in the early and late Universe
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Brittany Kamai (UC Santa Cruz/Caltech), Envisioning and creating the future of gravitational-wave astrophysics
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Brandon Hensley (Princeton), New perspectives on polarized dust foregrounds for CMB science
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Nicholas Rodd (UC Berkeley), Evidence the 3.5 keV line is not from dark matter decay
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Austin Schneider (MIT), IceCube and the high-energy neutrino landscape
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Cynthia Chiang (McGill), Illuminating the dark universe with radio observations
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Igor Andreoni (Caltech), Results from triggered and un-triggered searches for counterparts to neutron star mergers
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