Please send Manu Schaan a message in slack for zoom link.

On the menu:

• A tour of the new journal club website by Sandy Yuan
• An introduction to (or refresher on) Gaussian Processes from Philipp Frank.

We’ll also meet for an informal lunch at 1pm. Bring your lunch and join us on the 2nd floor PAB patio.

Sydney, Philipp, and the C4U JC Team

Ultralight dark matter candidates with masses below 1 eV are often considered to behave "classically". By this, one typically means that the dark matter exists in a coherent state (of the harmonic oscillator defined by the creation/annihilation operators of its momentum modes). This would, for instance, be the case for virialized dark matter, which might be observed in a laboratory experiment. On cosmological scales, however, if dark matter exhibits isocurvature fluctuations which were produced by inflation, these fluctuations will instead exist in a squeezed state.

Lunch 1pm-1:30pm on PAB Patio

Zoom

Please contact Philipp Frank or Sydney Erickson for more information.
 

We are honored to feature four panelists who are successful STEM professionals and include KIPAC alumni:

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Recent observations of black holes in two nearby low-mass X-ray binaries have indicated the possible presence of dark matter density spikes. While the evidence is compelling, one issue with this interpretation is that light black holes formed from stellar collapse are not expected to form dark matter spikes, and so it is unclear how the stellar-mass black holes in these binaries could have acquired such features.

One of the lowest cost planetary missions NASA has ever conducted, Deep Space 1 (DS1) was designed to take risks so subsequent missions would not have to.

We are delighted to host the first Quarterly Forum of the Center for Decoding the Universe at Stanford, a new initiative of Stanford Data Science and the Kavli Instit