Past Events

Public Lectures
How we built the world's largest digital camera

Travis Lange (SLAC)

Thursday, August 7, 2025 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT

In Person and Zoom - SLAC, Kavli Auditorium
Other Stanford Events
Thesis Defense: Precision Shear Calibration for Cosmology with Current and Future Galaxy Surveys

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | 10:30am - 11:30am PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
KIPAC Tea Talk
Simulations of Monster Shocks and their Emission

Friday, August 1, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room
Other Stanford Events
Tutorial on AI in Research Workflows

Thursday, July 31, 2025 | 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
Other Stanford Events
Thesis Defense: Hot Gas at High Redshift: Pathfinder Studies for Next Generation X-ray Observatories

Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | 10:30am - 11:30am PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
SLAC Special Seminar
SLAC Town Hall on EPP 2025 Report

Monday, July 28, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm PDT

SLAC, Kavli Auditorium
KIPAC Tea Talk
Lodha: Understanding Dark Energy using DESI DR2 BAO measurements / Pontzen: TBD

Friday, July 25, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room
KIPAC Tea Talk
Exploring Dynamic X-ray Sky: Running into the era of Einstein Probe

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
KIPAC Tea Talk
Hyperactive Magnetar Eruptions

Friday, July 18, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room
KIPAC Tea Talk
KIPAC Tea Talk

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT
Rubin at SLAC
KIPAC Rubin Data Exploration Day

Friday, July 11, 2025 | 9:30am - 3:00pm PDT

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room
KIPAC Tea Talk
Cluster Abundance Cosmology: Impact of Halo Triaxiality and Orientation on SZ selection and WL mass bias

Tuesday, July 8, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
Public Lectures
Rubin First Look: The First Glimpses Into the Deepest Cosmic Mysteries

Aaron Roodman, Risa Wechsler, Shreya Anand, Christian Aganze (KIPAC)

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | 7:00pm - 8:45pm PDT

Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 200 and online
KIPAC Tea Talk
Boombox: a low-resolution Magellan and MMT spectrograph coming to Stanford

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
KIPAC Tea Talk
Giannini: Why are photo-z so hard? / Noriega: Are current neutrino mass constraints reliable? Insights from full-shape analyses

Friday, June 27, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

SLAC, Kavli 3rd Floor Conf. Room
KIPAC Tea Talk
Shinnaga: Untangling Gravity and Magnetism: Can 3D Histories of Cloud Cores Reveal How Stars Gain Their Masses? / Glombitza: From 100 GeV to PeV: Advancing Wide-Field Gamma Ray Observatories with SWGO

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 | 10:40am - 11:30am PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
Rubin at SLAC
First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Live Stream

Monday, June 23, 2025 | 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Other Stanford Events
Tracing the Connections between Galaxies and their Circumgalactic Medium with Multi-wavelength Observations

Thursday, June 12, 2025 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
Other Stanford Events
Thesis Defense: Mitigating backgrounds and enhancing low-energy sensitivity in liquid xenon dark matter detectors

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT

Campus, PAB 102/103
Other Stanford Events
Center for Decoding the Universe Annual Conference: Data-Driven Discovery in the Rubin Era

Friday, June 6, 2025 | 8:30am - 5:00pm PDT

Campus, Simonyi Conference Center