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.
Currently, all of our seminars are hosted online (please see event flyers for details). Since we cannot meet our speakers in-person, to get to know them better we have introduced "virtual conversations" through the new KICP podcast. Here, one of our seminar organizers casually talks with the speaker about a variety of topics, including their career path, lessons learned, and activities they enjoy outside of research. All podcasts can be downloaded from this page.
Organizers:
Victor Buza, KICP Fellow Bio | Contact
Jose María Ezquiaga, Einstein & KICP Fellow Bio | Contact
Danielle Norcini, KICP & Grainger Fellow Bio | Contact
LianTao Wang, Faculty Advisor Bio | Contact
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Igor Andreoni (Caltech), Results from triggered and un-triggered searches for counterparts to neutron star mergers
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Cynthia Chiang (McGill), Illuminating the dark universe with radio observations
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Austin Schneider (MIT), IceCube and the high-energy neutrino landscape
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Nicholas Rodd (UC Berkeley), Evidence the 3.5 keV line is not from dark matter decay
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Brandon Hensley (Princeton), New perspectives on polarized dust foregrounds for CMB science
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Brittany Kamai (UC Santa Cruz/Caltech), Envisioning and creating the future of gravitational-wave astrophysics
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Weishuang (Linda) Xu (Harvard), Thermal dark sectors in the early and late Universe
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Christina Gao (Fermilab), Axion searches with two superconducting radio frequency cavities
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Yun-Ting Cheng (Caltech), Cosmology and astrophysics with intensity mapping
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Giuseppe Puglisi (UC Berkeley), Extending Galactic foreground models for CMB with adversarial networks
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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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Anna-Christina Eilers (MIT), The formation and growth of supermassive black Holes
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Djuna Croon (TRIUMF), New physics and the black hole mass gap
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Pranava Teja Surukuchi (Yale), Direct measurement of neutrino mass with the Project 8 Experiment
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Greg Mosby (NASA), Simplifying the analysis of galaxy star formation histories and near-infrared detectors
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Vincent Vennin (APC, Paris University), Quantum diffusion during cosmic inflation
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Mikhail Ivanov (NYU), Fundamental cosmology from galaxy clustering
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Joshua Speagle (University of Toronto), Cosmological cartography with photometric redshifts
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Katelin Schutz (MIT), Making dark matter out of light: the cosmology of sub-MeV freeze-in
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Jose Luis Bernal (Johns Hopkins), The trouble with H0 (and beyond)
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Ben Thorne (UCSD), A Bayesian approach to CMB lensing reconstruction and galactic foreground removal
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Arianna Renzini (Caltech), Mapping gravitational-wave backgrounds: investigations in LIGO and prospects for LISA
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