Physics Colloquium
Marianna Safronova
University of Delaware
University of Delaware
University of Maryland
Zachary Slepian is originally from Fairfield, Connecticut. He received a BA summa cum laude from Princeton (2011), working with J. Richard Gott, III on his senior thesis, an MSt in philosophy of physics at Oxford (2012), and a PhD in Astrophysics (2016) from Harvard, advised by Daniel J. Eisenstein.
Yi-Kuan Chiang is a CCAPP fellow at the Ohio State University working on data-intensive astronomy. He extracts cosmological and astrophysical information in the diffuse extragalactic background light in sky surveys across the electromagnetic spectrum. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and has held post-doctoral positions at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Tokyo.
Arka Banerjee is a Schramm fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics at Fermilab. Previously, he got his Phd from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and then was a KIPAC postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. His research focuses on cosmological structure formation, and its connection to fundamental physics.
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David Alonso studied Physics and received a PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Oxford, and as Tutor of Astrophysics at Christ Church, before moving to Cardiff University with an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship. He then returned to Oxford as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at St Peter's in 2019.
Andrey Kravtsov is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and a member of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics since 2001.
His research interests span from studies of formation of the smallest dwarf galaxies to the most massive galaxy clusters and he uses numerical simulations and analytical models to study formation of these systems.
Miguel Zumalacarregui works on different angles to understand the dark universe, testing models of gravity, dark energy, dark matter and generally exploring the potential of cosmological and gravitational wave observations to test fundamental physics.
Anže Slosar graduated from Cambridge, followed by postdocs in Ljubljana (Slovenia), Oxford and Berkeley before moving to a staff Scientist position
Dr. Allison Man is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She investigates the physics behind starbursts, colliding galaxies and supermassive black holes. Allison received her PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Copenhagen.