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Latest from KIPAC
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KIPAC's Aaron Roodman Featured in New York Times "100 Unanswered Questions" List
Sep 5, 2026KIPAC's Aaron Roodman, who studies dark energy with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and led the construction of its record-breaking LSST Camera, is featured at #97 in the Times' list of 100 unanswered questions in science. -
Daniel Akerib on a Faint Hint of Dark Matter
Sep 5, 2026KIPAC senior member, Prof. Dan Akerib, joins Sean Carroll's Mindscape to discuss a single, tantalizing event in the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment, and what it takes to tell a real discovery from a fluke. -
Jesse Han Receives 2026 Trumpler Award
Sep 4, 2026Jesse Han is the recipient of the 2026 Robert J. Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the top thesis prize for astrophysics in North America.
Upcoming Events
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Astrophysics Colloquium: The LBT Search for Failed Supernovae
Chris Kochanek (Ohio State)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103 -
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KIPAC Tea Talk: Statistical Predictions of the Accreted Stellar Halos around Milky Way-Like Galaxies / Lifting astrophysical barriers to small scale cosmology
Sebastian Monzon (Yale) / Jared Siegel (Princeton)SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room