Monthly Meeting

Not all telescopes use light to observe the universe. Some, like ice cubes, the RadioNeutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) and the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) look for neutrinos from distant, extragalactic sources by detecting their interactions with the arctic and antarctic ice sheets. In this talk, we will discuss what neutrinos are, why they are useful for astronomy, and how we try to observe them.

Bio’s For Philipp Windischhofer, Anna Kofman and Christoph Welling:

• Philipp Windischhofer obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. As a postdoc at the University of Chicago he is currently working on data analysis and instrumentation development for the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland.
• Anna Kofman obtained her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania developing instrumentation for the Simons Observatory, a cosmic microwave background telescope in Chile. She is currently working on the construction of the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations as a postdoc at the University of Chicago.
• Christoph Welling was a PhD student at Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Germany working on simulations and data analysis for the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland and is now a postdoc at the University of Chicago working on simulations for the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations.

This event is open to the public and free of charge.