, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

Amara McCune, An Effective Cosmological Collider (3:00 PM - 4:15 PM)

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Mauro Pieroni, Testing fundamental physics with gravitational waves (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Daniel Kapec, Soft Particles and the Geometry of the Space of Celestial CFTs (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

, No Astro Seminar (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

Matt Reece, Axions in quantum field theory and quantum gravity (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, Cosmic Happy Hour (8:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

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Ned Wingreen, Capillary Attraction Underlies Bacterial Collective Dynamics (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

Magdalena Siwek, Orbital Evolution of Binaries in Circumbinary Disks (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

David B Kaplan, Topological materials and relativistic fermions (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: overview and early results (12:30 PM - 1:15 PM)

Kathryn Moler, Unquantized Vortices in Superconductors (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM)

Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

Sultan Hassan, Extracting All Information From Future Surveys (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

-- Abstract: Extracting the maximum amount of astrophysical and cosmological information remains a challenge in the current and future surveys. These include, for instance, the recently launched NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Euclid, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx), the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), Square Kilometre Array (SKA), and many more. Due to the unprecedented sensitivity and large field of view, future surveys will enable detecting the majority of high redshift sources (quasars and galaxies at z>10) responsible for reionization on extremely large scales (> Gpc). Hence, a new generation of theoretical models and techniques is required to maximize the scientific return of these future surveys. In this talk, I will briefly discuss the key questions about the nature of reionization and the various different probes. I will also discuss uncertainties in our current theoretical models and the progress that has been made to answering these questions. I will then present some of my own contributions to improve modeling reionization using a combination of the state-of-the-art simulations and machine learning models, and conclude by summarizing my current and future research directions.

Maya Fishbach, Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Black Holes (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Soubhik Koumar, Hotspots on the Cosmic Microwave Background: Origin and Searches (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Ekapob Kulchoakrungsun, Investigating Gravitational Effects on Large and Small-Scale Structures of the Universe (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Fred MacKintosh, Mechanical Phase Transitions and Elastic Anomalies in Fibrous Networks (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

Simeon Hellerman, Conformal field theory at large fermion charge (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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