KIPAC@20: Talks

Tuesday, September 12

8:45-9:00 Opening remarks (Risa Wechsler, KIPAC Director) Video
Mapping the Sky (Chair: Emmanuel Schaan)
9:00-9:30 3D dust mapping in the Milky Way
Greg Green (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
Video
9:30-10:30 The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, status and plans
Chihway Chang (U. Chicago/KICP) and Phil Marshall (SLAC)
Video
10:30-10:35 Poster highlights Video
11:00-11:30 Spectroscopic galaxy surveys
Juna Kollmeier (CITA)
Video
11:30-12:00 Line intensity mapping
Simon Foreman (Arizona State University)
Video
12:00-12:30 The cosmic microwave background
Kimmy Wu (SLAC)
Video
Transformative Technologies (Chair: Zeeshan Ahmed)
14:00-14:30 The Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera
Aaron Roodman (SLAC)
Video
14:30-15:00 Extremely Large Telescope programs
Rob Simcoe (MIT Kavli Institute)
Video
15:00-15:30 Future space missions and detector technologies
Sven Hermann (KIPAC)
Video
15:30-15:35 Poster highlights Video
16:00-16:30 Advances in astronomical adaptive optics
Jessica Lu (UC Berkeley)
Video
16:30-17:00 Superconducting Sensors across the EM Spectrum
Cyndia Yu (University of Chicago, KICP)
Video
17:00-17:30 Quantum sensing for dark matter
Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Princeton)
Video

Wednesday, September 13

The Extreme and Variable Universe (Chair: Dan Wilkins)
9:00-9:30 High resolution X-ray spectroscopy with XRISM and beyond
Anna Ogorzalek (NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center)
Video
9:30-10:00 Building observatories to access the high-energy Universe
Stefan Funk (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)
Video
10:00-10:30 Multi-messengers from the high energy frontier
Ke Fang (U. Wisconsin)
Video
10:30-10:35 Poster highlights Video
11:00-11:30 Millihertz gravitational wave sources and short-timescale variables with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Kevin Burdge (MIT)
Video
11:30-12:00 Transient Science with DSA 2000
Gregg Hallinan (Caltech)
Video
12:00-12:30 Transient astronomy and high energy astrophysics in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (discussion)
Kevin Burdge (MIT), Gregg Hallinan (Caltech), Krista Lynne Smith (Texas A&M)
Video
Public Event
19:00-20:00 The Next Decade of Discovery with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Risa Wechsler (Stanford), Dan Wilkins (Stanford), Aaron Roodman (SLAC), Yao-Yuan Mao (University of Utah), Krista Lynne Smith (Texas A&M), Kevin Burdge (MIT)
Video

 

Thursday, September 14

 

9:00-9:30 Special update from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Phil Marshall
Video
Data-driven Discovery (Chair: Susan Clark)
9:30-10:00 Climate solutions
Kyle Story (Muon Space)
Video
10:00-10:30 Strong gravitational lensing in the era of data-driven algorithms
Yashar Hezaveh (Universite de Montreal)
Video
10:30-11:00 Experimental science x supercomputing
Debbie Bard (NERSC)
Video
11:30-12:30 Synergies between overlapping cosmological surveys
Elisabeth Krause (University of Arizona)
Video
12:00-12:20 The emergence of the star-forming cosmic web
Dongwoo Chung (CITA/U. Toronto)
Video
12:20-12:40 Polarimetric profiles of pulsar wind nebulae
Josephine Wong (KIPAC)
Video
12:40-13:00 The PHANGS Survey: Resolving nearby galaxies into individual star-forming units
Jaeyeon Kim (KIPAC)
Video
KIPAC in the World (Chair: Pat Burchat)
14:00-14:30 NVIDIA'S HPC Developer Technology Group
Peng Wang (NVIDIA)
Video
14:30-15:00 Carbon dioxide removal through bio-oil sequestration
Edward Young (Charm Industrial)
Video
15:00-15:30 Human–Machine Collaboration for Improving Semiconductor Process Development
Yu Lu (Lam Research)
Video
16:00-17:30 Developing as compassionate scientists for the good of the world (a few KIPAC highlights, followed by discussion)
Bruce Macintosh (chair), Risa Wechsler, Xinnan Du, Susan Clark, Yao-Yuan Mao
 

 

Friday, September 15

 

Snapshots of KIPAC Research (Chair: Dan Wilkins)
9:00-9:10 Measuring Magnetic Flux on the Far-side of the Sun
Shea Hess-Webber
Video
9:10-9:20 Detecting Gaps in Stellar Streams as a Probe for Dark Matter with the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope
Christian Aganze
Video
9:20-9:30 Studying Galactic Inscriptions: what we can learn about the history of the Milky Way from dynamical perturbations
Elise Darragh-Ford
Video
9:30-9:40 Learning real physics with fake universes
Sandy Yuan
Video
9:40-9:50 Gaseous halos of spiral galaxies: feeding and feedback
Sanskriti Das
Video
9:50-10:00 Cosmic Chemistry: Exploring The History of Cluster Enrichment with Current and Next-gen X-ray Telescopes
Anthony Flores
Video
10:00-10:10 Mapping the Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes through the Time Domain
Zhefu Yu
Video
10:10-10:20 A rare case of strong lensing by a quasar
Martin Millon
Video
10:20-10:30 What in the Galaxy is Scattering Cosmic Rays?
Iryna Butsky
Video
11:00-11:45 Thinking ahead to next-generation surveys (discussion) Emmanuel Schaan, Elisabeth Krause, Steve Allen, Risa Wechsler  
KIPAC Directors' perspective and closing remarks
  Stephen Streiffer  
  Roger Blandford Video
  Tom Abel Video
  Risa Wechsler Video