Past Events

Mar

GammaTPC: a powerful new MeV gamma ray instrument concept

Tom Shutt (KIPAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Mar

Looking inside the heart of a supernova from underground

Alex Friedland (SLAC) via zoom

SLAC Colloquium

3:30 pm

Mar

The bright future of cosmology with SPT-3G

Amy Bender (Argonne National Lab) via zoom

SLAC Special Seminar

11:00 am

Feb

What might we learn about Massive Stars from LSST/VRO Light Curves of Type II Supernovae?

Lars Bildsten (UCSB) via zoom

KIPAC-LSST KEG

2:30 pm

Feb

Salting as a bias mitigation technique in LZ

Tyler Anderson (KIPAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

10:30 am

Feb

Large area Weak Lensing and the LSST Camera

Yousuke Utsumi (KIPAC) via zoom

SLAC Special Seminar

12:30 pm

Feb

A 100 kpc Galactic Wind Feeding the Circumgalactic Medium

Alison Coil (UCSD) via zoom https://stanford.zoom.us/j/423773826

Astrophysics Colloquium

11:00 am

Feb

Machine Learning for Big Data Cosmology and High Energy Physics

Agnes Ferte (JPL) via zoom

SLAC AI Seminar

1:00 pm

Feb

RESSPECT: Transient Follow-up system for Rubin Observatory’s LSST

Kara Ponder (SLAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Feb

Sensitivity in Numbers : Scaling Up Superconducting Sensing at the Cosmic Frontier

Shawn Henderson (KIPAC) via zoom

SLAC Special Seminar

11:00 am

Feb

Discovering the Missing Population of AGN Pairs with Chandra

Adi Foord (KIPAC) via zoom https://stanford.zoom.us/j/550904854

KIPAC Tea Talk

10:30 am

Feb

Welcome to the era of fast radio burst “cosmology”!

Matt McQuinn (University of Washington) via zoom https://stanford.zoom.us/j/423773826

Astrophysics Colloquium

11:00 am

Feb

EPP Theory Seminar: Tension in the Hubble Constant: Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?

Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Observatories) via zoom

1:30 pm

Feb

Finding dark matter faster with likelihoods and liquid xenon

Jelle Aalbers (KIPAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Feb

Machine Learning for Dark Matter

Bryan Ostdiek (Harvard University) via zoom

SLAC AI Seminar

1:00 pm

Feb

Insights into black widow pulsar binary systems through optical and X-ray studies

Dinesh Kandel (KIPAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

10:30 am

Feb

Quantum Sensors for Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter

Noah Kurinsky (FNAL) via zoom

SLAC Special Seminar

12:30 pm

Feb

Spatially Resolved Galaxy Interactions

Jorge Moreno (Pomona College) via zoom

Astrophysics Colloquium

11:00 am

Feb

Leveraging Spectroscopy for Photometric Galaxy Survey Science

Justin Myles (KIPAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Feb

KIPAC Monthly Social (Private Event)

5:00 pm

Feb

Experimental studies of extreme QED and plasma astrophysics processes at SLAC

Frederico Fiuza (SLAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

10:30 am

Feb

Towards Dark Energy

David Kirkby (UC Irvine) via zoom

Astrophysics Colloquium

11:00 am

Feb

A hybrid model for large-scale structure statistics

Nick Kokron (KIPAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Jan

High-Energy Emission from a Magnetar Giant Flare in the Sculptor Galaxy

Nicola Omodei (KIPAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

10:30 am

Jan

Galactic Archaeology with Gaia and Large Spectroscopic Surveys

Keith Hawkins (UT Austin) via zoom

Astrophysics Colloquium

11:00 am

Jan

Detection of polarization due to cloud bands in the third closest system to Earth - the Luhman 16 brown dwarf binary

Max Millar-Blanchaer (Caltech) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Jan

The Fastest Eye on the Sky: The Vera Rubin Observatory

Aaron Roodman (KIPAC) via zoom

SLAC Colloquium

3:30 pm

Jan

Measuring peculiar velocities (and more) with the cosmic microwave background

Federico Bianchini (KIPAC) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

10:30 am

Jan

Revealing the Hidden Secrets of Hot Jupiters

Nikole Lewis (Cornell) via zoom

Astrophysics Colloquium

11:00 am

Jan

BUFFALO HST cluster survey

Mathilde Jauzac (Durham University) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Dec

Holiday Party (Private Event) via zoom

4:00 pm

Dec

SITP Seminar: A Story of the Galactic Center Excess

Rebecca Leane (SLAC)

Other Stanford Events

2:00 pm

Dec

Daylan: Taking a census of dark matter substructure via transdimensional gravitational imaging / Martinez: Searching for Wide Planetary-Mass and Substellar Companions with Circum(sub)stellar Disks through PSF-Fitting of Spitzer/IRAC Archival Images

Tansu Daylan (MIT) / Raquel Martinez (The University of Texas at Austin) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Dec

Flipout: Efficient Pseudo-Independent Weight Perturbations on Mini-Batches

Sebastian Wagner-Carrera via zoom

KIPAC Stats & ML Journal Club

3:00 pm

Dec

Lacy: A Closer look at Cloudy Tidally-locked Exoplanets / Taylor: k-cut and x-cut Cosmic Shear

Brianna Lacy (Princeton University) / Peter Taylor (JPL) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

10:30 am

Dec

Saffold: Antihelium Sensitivity of the GAPS Experiment / Xu: NuSTAR and XMM Observations of Two New Black Hole X-ray Binaries

Nathan Saffold (Columbia University) / Yanjun Xu (California Institute of Technology) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Dec

Bialy: TurboChem: The link between chemistry and interstellar turbulence / Wang: Searching for massive charged long-lived particles at the Large Hadron Collider

Shmuel Bialy (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) / Ann Wang (Harvard) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

11:00 am

Dec

Other Careers in Both the Private and Public Sector

Panelists: Fen Zhao (Alpha Edison) Jason Hamm (Office of the Secretary of Defense) Samantha Edgington (Geostationary Lighting Mapper) Samuel Bockenhauer (HydroWIRES Initiative) Pat Burchat (moderator, Stanford) via zoom

Career Development Panel

5:00 pm

Dec

Gutcke: LYRA: Galaxy formation on small scales in a cosmological context / Somboonpanyakul: Galaxy Clusters and AGN Feedback

Thales Gutcke (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) / Taweewat Somboonpanyakul (MIT) via zoom

KIPAC Tea Talk

10:30 am