KIPAC Tea Talk
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We meet twice weekly at 10:40 am for "KIPAC tea" (on Campus on Tuesdays, and at SLAC on Fridays, with zoom attendance enabled in both venues) to discuss recent hot papers and other news items, and to hear a short talk. We intend KIPAC tea talks to raise awareness of each other's activities, and provide a stage for the presentation of interesting new results, an upcoming conference paper, or a particular problem that would best be tackled with help from other KIPAC members. By keeping the atmosphere friendly and informal, these talks hopefully help to improve communication across the institute. The carrot is finding out what others are up to (and hopefully being entertained in the process). The stick is that everyone is expected to contribute at some point.
- Tea menu
- More information about tea talks
- Suggest a paper you could discuss or have someone else discuss
- We invite scientists from any institution and any career stage to present at KIPAC Tea. You may request a tea talk.
- KIPAC members are strongly encouraged to volunteer to give a KIPAC Tea talk by emailing tealeaks@kipac.stanford.edu
Upcoming Tea Talks
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KIPAC Tea Talk: Seeing the Invisible -- X-ray, Optical, and Infrared Variability as Probes of Accretion and Jet Physics in Low Luminosity AGNs / Constraining Inflation with the CMB: From Cosmological Colliders to Open Quantum Systems
Nicole Ford (McGill University) / Petar Suman (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103 -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Uncovering the Ultrahigh Energy Universe with PUEO / No Cluster Left Behind: Multiwavelength Cluster Analysis with All the Data
Rachel Scrandis (University of Chicago) / Conghao Zhou (UC Santa Cruz)SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm.-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm. -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Constraining the Galaxy-Halo Connection in Low-Mass Galaxies with Large Surveys
Yifei Luo (Lawrence Berkeley Nation Laboratory) / Sthabile Kolwa (University of South Africa)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103 -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Mujica: Reconstruct Cosmological Initial Conditions from Incomplete Galaxy Surveys with Statistically Regularized Optimization / Intrinsic alignments in the FLAMINGO simulations and consequences for weak lensing
Chenze Dong (Kavli IPMU) / Aniruddh Herle (Leiden Observatory)SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm.-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm. -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Electromagnetic Precursors to Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Jasmine Parsons (Princeton University)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103 -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Uncovering Collisionally Ionized, Relativistic, and BAL-like Outflows in MCG-6-30-15 with Chandra HETG, XRISM, and Bayesian Framework / Turning a Dark Matter Detector into a Neutrino Observatory: Latest Results from XENONnT
Erika Hoffman (University of Maryland) / Dacheng Xu (Columbia University)SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm.-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm. -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Supermassive black hole merger predictions for pulsar timing arrays from cosmological simulations / Vis Lab Grand Re-Opening
Stephanie Buttigieg (University of Cambridge), Josh Shiode (KIPAC Managing Director)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103
Past Tea Talks
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KIPAC Tea Talk: How Much Can We Trust Cosmology from Galaxy Surveys? From Pixels to Cosmological Inference
Zekang Zhang (LMU Munich)SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm.-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm. -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Characterizing Turbulence in Circumgalactic Gas / Calibrating Semi-Analytic Models to Beyond Cold Dark Matter
Mandy Chen (Caltech & Carnegie Observatories), Dimple Sarnaaik (Carnegie Science Observatories & USC)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103 -
KIPAC Tea Talk: A Resolved View of the ISM and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxy / Primordial Magnetic fields and modified recombination histories
Mansi Padave (UC San Diego), Jonathan Schiff (UCSB)SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm.-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Rm. -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Quasi-periodic eruptions: a new probe of supermassive black holes and extreme mass-ratio inspirals / The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes from Pop III.1 Seeds and Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology
Joheen Chakraborty (MIT) / Jonathan Tan (Chalmers / U. Virginia)Campus, PAB 102/103-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Constraining primordial non gaussianity with DESI DR2, differentiable cosmology tools for optimized inference
Sofia Chiarenza (Perimeter Inst.)SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Model-Independent Measurements of Baryon Feedback with kSZ and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing
Henry Liu (UC Berkeley)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103 -
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 -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Are Cluster Galaxies Too Efficient at Strong Lensing? Revisiting a Tension Between Observations and Simulations / Exploring a cosmic ray inverse-Compton origin to the SZ-to-X-ray pressure deficit in the cool core cluster ZwCl 3146
Cian Roche (MIT) / Emily Silich (Caltech)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103 -
KIPAC Tea Talk: XRISM view of Accretion-Driven Winds Variability and Feedback in NGC 4151 and future JWST prospects / From Pulsar Magnetospheres to Neutron-Star Inference:First-Principles Hotspot Physics and New Computational Frameworks
Xin Xiang (University of Michigan) / Chun Huang (Wash U.)SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room-SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room -
KIPAC Tea Talk: Probing the Bispectrum through the Marked Power Spectrum / New probes of fundamental physics with CMB and LSS surveys
Haruki Ebina (UC Berkeley) / Samuel Goldstein (Columbia Univ.)Campus, PAB 102/103-Campus, PAB 102/103