Other Stanford Events

SITP Wine and Cheese Seminar: Decoding the Mystery of Dark Matter with Celestial Objects

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Location

Campus, Varian 312

Speaker
Anupam Ray (UC Berkeley & Minnesota) In Person

Dark Matter (DM) remains mysterious. Despite decades of experimental and theoretical efforts, its microscopic identity is still unknown to us. In this talk, I will walk you through how a variety of celestial objects can be utilised as powerful DM detectors. This astrophysical probe, complementary to the terrestrial and cosmological probes, covers a significant portion of the DM parameters (DM mass and its interaction strength with nucleons) which otherwise remains elusive.

Thesis Defense: Computational statistics for the joint probability distribution of dark matter and galaxies

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Location

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

Speaker
Dylan Britt (KIPAC) In Person and zoom

 

Ph.D. Candidate: Dylan Britt
Research Advisor: Tom Abel and Daniel Gruen

Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97963773363

Zoom Password: Email physicsstudentservices@stanford.edu for password.

Thesis Defense: Charting Cosmic Structure: Untangling Weak Lensing with Spectroscopy and Color

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Location

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

Speaker
Jamie McCullough (KIPAC) In Person and zoom

 

Ph.D. Candidate: Jamie McCullough
Research Advisor: Aaron Roodman & Daniel Gruen

Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/8117233231

Zoom Password: Email physicsstudentservices@stanford.edu for password.

Thesis Defense: Seven Dwarfs and Snow White: a tale of cosmological co-evolution of low-mass galaxies and their host

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Location

Campus, PAB 232

Speaker
Richie Wang (KIPAC) In Person and zoom https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92313540520

Ph.D. Candidate:  Richie Wang
Research Advisor:  Risa Wechsler

Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/92313540520

Zoom Password: Email physicsstudentservices@stanford.edu for password.

Thesis Defense: Dwarf Galaxies and the Footprints They Leave Behind: a Galactic Assembly History

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Location

Campus, PAB 102/103

Speaker
Elise Darragh-Ford (KIPAC) In Person and zoom https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93309475673

Ph.D. Candidate:  Elise Darragh-Ford
Research Advisor:  Risa Wechsler

Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93309475673

Zoom Password: Email physicsstudentservices@stanford.edu for password.

SITP Wine and Cheese Seminar: Fast and Differentiable Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

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Location

Campus, Varian 312

Speaker
Hongwan Liu (KICP, UChicago, & Fermilab ) In Person

The process of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is a crucial test of cosmology. In this talk, I will describe a new code for predicting the primordial elemental abundance due to BBN. This code takes advantage of JAX, a machine learning framework, to enable fast and differentiable predictions of elemental abundances. This allows us to put BBN calculations on the same level of rigor and ease-of-use as cosmic microwave background analyses, taking nuclear rate uncertainties fully into account.