Past Events

Jun
18

Maximally constraining dark energy

Johannes Noller (ETH Zurich)

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
Jun
17

Direct detection and characterization of exoplanets

Thesis Defense: Jean-Baptiste Ruffio

Campus, Conference room 101X - Paul Allen Building

2:00 pm
Jun
14

Why might the LSST Dark Energy Science photometric calibration requirements keep you up at night?

Eli Rykoff (SLAC)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

LSST@SLAC
10:30 am
Jun
11

Revealing the Small Scale Structure of Dark Matter with Gravitational Lensing

Thesis Defense: Warren Morningstar

Campus, Varian 355

11:00 am
Jun
10

Probing cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae: A new perspective

Zhongxu Zhai (Caltech)

Campus, Varian 355

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
Jun
7

Overview of Hack Day Results

Led by Hack Day Organizers

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
Jun
7

Training Recurrent Neural Networks

Justin Myles

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Stats & ML Journal Club
9:30 am
Jun
6

Unraveling Elusive Cosmic Particle Mysteries with High-Energy Elusive Particles

Kohta Murase (The Pennsylvania State University)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
Jun
4

Testing DAMA's long-standing claim for dark matter detection

Reina Maruyama (Yale University)

Campus, Hewlett Teaching Center Rm. 201

AP/Physics Colloquium
4:30 pm
Jun
4

Paper Discussion

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
Jun
3

A first look at a super massive black hole

Lia Medeiros (Institute for Advanced Study )

Campus, Varian 355

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
May
31
May
31

Paper Discussion

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
May
31

Adversarial attacks against neural networks and their surprisingly deep implications

Sean McLaughlin

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Stats & ML Journal Club
9:30 am
May
30

Exploring Planetary Systems Orbiting Nearby Stars

Courtney Dressing (UC Berkeley)

Campus, PAB 102/103

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
May
29

KIPAC Hack Day

Campus, PAB 102/103 from 9 - 11 a.m. PAB 232 and 241 for breakout rooms 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

9:00 am
May
28

The Dawn of Superconducting Quantum Processors

Irfan Siddiqi (UC Berkeley)

Campus, Hewlett Teaching Center Rm. 201

AP/Physics Colloquium
4:30 pm
May
28

Uncertainty quantification in astrophysics

Jason McEwen (University College London)

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
May
27
May
24

Summary of Space Sciences at Stanford Conference

Kirk Barrow, Krista Lynne Smith, Lea Hirsch and others

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
May
23

Understanding the Interiors of Neutron Stars

Cole Miller (University of Maryland)

Campus, Varian 355 *Note change in regular location*

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
May
21

Strongly Interacting Synthetic Topological Insulators in High Dimensions

Cenke Xu (UC Santa Barbara)

Campus, Hewlett Teaching Center Rm. 201

AP/Physics Colloquium
4:30 pm
May
21

Event Horizon Telescope

Warren Morningstar

Campus, PAB 232

Meeting of Astrophysics Students at Stanford (MASS)
12:15 pm
May
21

Using Gaia, Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS to map the Milky Way

Greg Green

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
May
20

How to not run cosmological n-body simulations

Alexander Mead (University of British Columbia)

Campus, Varian 355

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
May
20

Space Sciences at Stanford Workshop

Campus, PAB 102/103

9:00 am
May
17

Reading: Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion

Shea Hess Webber

Campus, PAB 232

Physics Equity and Inclusion Reading Group
12:00 pm
May
17

Chung: Line intensity mapping with COMAP / Globus: Life, the Universe and Chirality

Dongwoo Chung / Noemie Globus

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
May
16

Focusing on What is In Front of Your Nose: Astrophysics with CMB Experiments

Nathan Whitehorn (UCLA)

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
May
14

Physicists and Evolution: Puzzles and Expectations

Daniel S. Fisher/SITP Event (Stanford University, AP)

Campus, Hewlett Teaching Center Rm. 201

AP/Physics Colloquium
4:30 pm
May
14

Blended galaxies in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Ismael Serrano

Campus, PAB 232

Meeting of Astrophysics Students at Stanford (MASS)
12:15 pm
May
14

Event Horizon Telescope

Maciej Wielgus (Harvard University)

Campus, Varian 355

KIPAC Tea Talk
11:00 am
May
13

Large-scale structure cosmology from low to high redshift

Mike Wilson (UC Berkeley)

Campus, Varian 355

Cosmology Seminar
11:00 am
May
10

Paper Discussion

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room

KIPAC Tea Talk
10:30 am
May
10

Exact Gaussian Processes on a Million Data Points

Greg Green

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room 

KIPAC Stats & ML Journal Club
9:30 am
May
9

Our Universe

Jo Dunkley (Princeton)

Campus, William R. Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 201

KIPAC Public Lectures
7:00 pm
May
9

KIPAC Reception (Private Event)

Campus, PAB Upper Patio

5:45 pm
May
9

Cosmic neutrinos: using the universe as our laboratory

Jo Dunkley (Princeton)

Campus, Varian 355 *note room change*

Astrophysics Colloquium
11:00 am
May
7

From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics

Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo)

Campus, Hewlett Teaching Center Rm. 201

AP/Physics Colloquium
4:30 pm
May
7

Direct Detection of Axion Dark Matter

Justin Mules

Campus, PAB 232

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