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, and beyond.

Organizers:
Keisuke Inomata, KICP Fellow Bio | Contact
Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, KICP & NSF Fellow Bio | Contact
Lucas Secco, KICP Fellow Bio | Contact
Michael Zevin, KICP & Hubble Fellow Bio | Contact
Alexander Ji, Faculty Advisor Bio | Contact

January 20, 2022

Julian B. Muñoz (Harvard)
Title: Cosmic Dawn: The next frontier in cosmology
Abstract: In this talk I will describe how the cosmic-dawn era, which saw the formation of the first galaxies, holds a wealth of information about cosmology. The light from the first galaxies kickstarted the last major phase transition of our cosmos, as it went from cold and neutral to hot and ionized. This transition will soon be mapped by 21-cm and space telescopes, providing us with a new window to test dark matter and measure the expansion rate. I will provide a brief pedagogical introduction to 21-cm cosmology, and present the first results from the HERA experiment, focusing on their implications. I will also show how to use data from 21-cm as well as from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to measure the small-scale structure of dark matter beyond the reach of other observables. Finally, I will explain how velocity-induced acoustic oscillations (VAOs) provide us with a new standard ruler, which allows us to measure the expansion rate of our cosmos at z=10-20.

January 27, 2022

Daniel Gilman (University of Toronto)

February 3, 2022

Thomas Callister (Flatiron institute)

February 10, 2022

YueYing Ni (CMU)

February 17, 2022

John Hood (UChicago/Vanderbilt)

February 24, 2022

Alvine Kamaha (UCLA)

March 3, 2022

Giovanni Cabass (IAS)

March 10, 2022

Andorina Nocola (Princeton)

December 9, 2021

January 28, 2021

Giuseppe Puglisi (UC Berkeley), Extending Galactic foreground models for CMB with adversarial networks
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

January 21, 2021

Yun-Ting Cheng (Caltech), Cosmology and astrophysics with intensity mapping
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

December 10, 2020

Christina Gao (Fermilab), Axion searches with two superconducting radio frequency cavities
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

December 3, 2020

Weishuang (Linda) Xu (Harvard), Thermal dark sectors in the early and late Universe
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

November 12, 2020

Brittany Kamai (UC Santa Cruz/Caltech), Envisioning and creating the future of gravitational-wave astrophysics
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

November 5, 2020

Brandon Hensley (Princeton), New perspectives on polarized dust foregrounds for CMB science
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

October 29, 2020

Nicholas Rodd (UC Berkeley), Evidence the 3.5 keV line is not from dark matter decay
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

October 22, 2020

Austin Schneider (MIT), IceCube and the high-energy neutrino landscape
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

October 15, 2020

Cynthia Chiang (McGill), Illuminating the dark universe with radio observations
Flyer | Presentation | Podcast interview Audio Video

October 8, 2020

Igor Andreoni (Caltech), Results from triggered and un-triggered searches for counterparts to neutron star mergers
Flyer | Presentation