Past Events

Dec
12

No Astrophysics Colloquium

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
Dec
10

Hard X-ray polarimetry - new efforts in detector development

Tanmoy Chattopadhyay

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
Dec
9

The probability distribution function (PDF) of cosmic density fluctuations: How to measure it? How to model it? What information does it contain?

Oliver Friedrich (Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge)

Campus, Varian 355

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
Dec
6

Bundy: FOBOS Instrument / Liao: Large Scale Dynamo in a Primordial Accretion Flow

Kevin Bundy (UC Santa Cruz) / Wei-Ting Liao (University of Illinois)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
Dec
5

AGN variability/AGN redshift estimation

Merry Powell
KIPAC-LSST Early-science Group
1:00 pm
Dec
5

Constraining Planet Formation with Spectroscopy of Direct Imaged Planets

Quinn Konopacky (UC San Diego)

Campus, PAB 102/103

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
Dec
3

Measuring the tensor-to-scalar ratio using the polarization of the cosmic microwave background

Neil Goeckner-Wald (Stanford)

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
Dec
2

Precision Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background

Sara Simon (University of Michigan)

Campus, Varian 355

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
Nov
29
Nov
28
Nov
26

No KIPAC Tea Talk

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
Nov
25

No Cosmology Seminar

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
Nov
22

Hirsch: Nobel Prizes in Exoplanets / Li: A 1700 km/s hyper velocity star discovered by the Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey

Lea Hirsch (Stanford) / Ting Li (Carnegie Observatories)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
Nov
21

Is our Solar System Unique? A Holistic View of Exoplanet Demographics

BJ Fulton (Caltech)

Campus, PAB 102/103

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
Nov
19

Diverse time variability of accreting systems revealed by novel techniques

Rebecca Phillipson (Drexel)

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
Nov
19

Camera systematics and three-point correlations in modern photometric galaxy surveys

Thesis Defense: Michael Baumer

Campus, PAB 102/103

10:00 am
Nov
18

Statistical Challenges in photometric redshift inference

Markus Michael Rau (Carnegie Mellon University)

Campus, Varian 355

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
Nov
15

KIPAC Social (Private Event)

SLAC, FKB 2nd Floor Lounge

4:00 pm
Nov
15

Approximating photo-z PDFs for large surveys

Claire Hebert

SLAC, Kavli 2nd Floor Conf Room *note change in location on this date*

KIPAC Stats & ML Journal Club
3:00 pm
Nov
15

Chatterjee: M87: from the event horizon to the parsec-scale jet / El-Badry: The Milky Way's stellar mass black hole population

Koushik Chatterjee (University of Amsterdam) / Kareem El-Badry (UC Berkeley)

SLAC, Kavli Auditorium *note change in location on this date*

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
Nov
14

Postdoc Lunch

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

Meeting of Astrophysics Postdocs at Stanford (MAPS)
12:00 pm
Nov
14

What Happens When a Massive Star Fails (Sort of) to Explode?

Eliot Quataert (UC Berkeley)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
Nov
12

The Physics and Astrophysics of Black Holes and Horizons

Roger Blandford & Eva Silverstein (Stanford)

Campus, Hewlett 200

AP/Physics Colloquium
4:30 pm
Nov
12

First Initial Discussion

Campus, PAB 102/103

KIPAC-LSST Early Science Group
2:00 pm
Nov
12

The Final Parsec Problem

Andrew Eberhardt

Campus, PAB 232

Meeting of Astrophysics Students at Stanford (MASS)
12:15 pm
Nov
12

Li: Direct Detection of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters / Marcotulli: The Extremes of the Blazar Sequence

Yuan Li (UC Berkeley) / Lea Marcotulli (Clemson)

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
Nov
11

Increased Hubble tension with a new measurement of the Hubble constant using strong lensing

Anowar Shajib (UCLA)

Campus, Varian 355

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
Nov
8

Invariant Scattering Convolution Networks

Sean McLaughlin (Stanford)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Stats & ML Journal Club
3:00 pm
Nov
8

Mooley: The Electromagnetic Counterparts of GW170817 and Future Gravitational Wave Events / Powell: Probing the large-scale environments of AGN

Kunal Mooley (NRAO and Caltech ) / Meredith Powell (Stanford)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
Nov
7
Nov
7

A NICER Era for Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Zaven Arzoumanian (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Campus, PAB 102/103

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
Nov
5

The Sunyaev–Zeldovich Effect

Sebastian Wagner-Carena

Campus, PAB 232

Meeting of Astrophysics Students at Stanford (MASS)
12:15 pm
Nov
5
Nov
4

No Cosmology Seminar

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
Nov
1

Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph network

Lawrence Peirson (Stanford)

SLAC, 3rd Floor Conference Room

KIPAC Stats & ML Journal Club
3:00 pm
Nov
1

Imagine You Are a Filmmaker

Special Lunch Time Talk: Alison Rose (Inigo Films)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

12:30 pm
Nov
1

Galan: Benefits of sparsity in gravitational lens modeling / Million: Lens monitoring and time-delay measurement for a precise determination of the Hubble constant

Aymeric Galan / Martin Millon (EPFL, Switzerland)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
Oct
31

All Hands on Deck: What observations, theory, simulation and laboratory experiments are teaching us about the powerful AGN jets

Hui Li (Los Alamos)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
Oct
30

Discussion of the latest Nobel prize awards, both on Exoplanets and CMB

Lea Hirsch and Ari Cukierman

SLAC, Bldg 84, Ballam Conf. Room 188

Experimental Seminar
4:00 pm
Oct
29

Tension Between Early and Late Universe Measurements of H0: Hint of New Physics?

Phil Marshall (Stanford/SLAC)

Campus, Hewlett 200

AP/Physics Colloquium
4:30 pm