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June 6, 2024 - Thursday
8:00 AMLight Breakfast and Coffee
 Morning sessionERC 161
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMAbigail Vieregg, KICP Director
Opening Remarks [PDF, 19.93 MB]
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMScott Dodelson, Carnegie Mellon University
Breaking a Model by Making a Map [PDF, 13.95 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCora Dvorkin, Harvard University
Mining Astrophysical Data: Looking for Physics Beyond the Standard Model
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMBreak
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMAndrew Long, Rice University
Astrophysical and Cosmological Probes of Axions [PDF, 25.58 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:30 PMDan Scolnic, Duke University
Measuring the Hubble Constant and Dark Energy; as a KICP Fellow and Today
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
ERC Atrium
 Afternoon sessionERC 161
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMKeith Bechtol, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Advancing the search for isolated pure dark matter halos [PDF, 41.99 MB]
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMEric Dahl, Northwestern University / Fermilab
Liquid-noble bubble chambers, a scintillating new direction for dark mater detection [PDF, 21.99 MB]
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMToshihiro Fujii, Osaka Metropolitan University
Searching for the Universe's most energetic particles [PDF, 9.8 MB]
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMBreak
4:00 PM - 4:30 PMRisa Wechsler, Stanford University / KIPAC
20 years of Lighting up the Dark Universe
4:30 PM - 5:00 PMCynthia Friend, President of the Kavli Foundation
Celebrating 20 Years of Partnership and beyond: Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
6:30 PM - 11:30 PMCocktails and DinnerAdler Planetariumfollowed by drinks, music, and dancing featuring The Spectral Distortions.

The Spectral Distortions are generally regarded as our universe’s premier physics punk band, and are:
Pedro the Distorter (a.k.a., Pedro Machado)
Johnny Distortion (a.k.a., Asher Berlin)
Danny Distortion (a.k.a., Dan Hooper)
Basil Distortion

 
June 7, 2024 - Friday
8:00 AMLight Breakfast and Coffee
 Morning sessionERC 161
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMHiranya Peiris, University of Cambridge
Decoding the cosmos [PDF, 25.33 MB]
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMGeorge Fuller, University of California, San Diego
Neutrinos, Dark Matter, Gravitational Collapse and Cosmology
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMKaeli Hughes, The Ohio State University
The Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland: Prospects and Status [PDF, 35.83 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMBreak
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMBurcin Mutlu-Pakdil, Dartmouth College
Resolved Dwarf Galaxy Searches: Now and Tomorrow
12:00 PM - 12:30 PMDaniel Baxter, Fermilab
Leveraging Quantum Sensors for Dark Matter Detection
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMMarilena Loverde, University of Washington
Neutrino wakes on the sky
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
ERC Atrium
 Afternoon sessionERC 161
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMDaniel Marrone, University of Arizona
Next Steps in Black Hole Imaging
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMTongyan Lin, University of California, San Diego
Detectability of Dark Matter Subhalos with Stellar Streams
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMKirit Karkare, SLAC/KIPAC
Exploring the High-Redshift Universe with Line Intensity Mapping [PDF, 12.38 MB]
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMFireslides from current KICP Fellows
4:00 PM - 6:00 PMPoster SessionPosters by current KICP Fellows, Happy hour and ReceptionERC Atrium

 
June 8, 2024 - Saturday
8:00 AMLight Breakfast and Coffee
 Morning sessionERC 161
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMJohn Kovac, Harvard University
Advancing CMB Polarization in the US [PDF, 21.01 MB]
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMMaya Fishbach, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Listening to black holes with gravitational waves [PDF, 6.87 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMJoaquin Vieira, University of Illinois
Dust at High Redshift
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMBreak
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMZosia Krusberg, University of Chicago
Cosmology, the embodied human experience, and holistic physics education [PDF, 19.75 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:30 PMLloyd Knox, University of California, Davis
Twenty Years of Lambda CDM and Beyond
12:30 PM - 1:00 PMMichael Turner, UChicago and UCLA
The first 40 years of the KICP [PDF, 38.94 MB]
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
ERC atrium