Save the Date! Center for Decoding the Universe Quarterly Forum

The Center for Decoding the Universe is a new center jointly supported by Stanford Data Science (SDS) and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). The Center brings together researchers from across campus and SLAC to collaborate on leveraging complex data to inform physical inference.

This Center will pursue answers to the biggest open questions about the universe. On the largest scales, we seek to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy, and how the structure of the universe as a whole has evolved over cosmic time. We are also investigating the physics that drives the sources observed in the universe—stars, black holes, violent explosions, galaxies, and other exotic or yet-to-be-discovered objects. And we seek to understand our own origins: the structure of our home Milky Way galaxy, and how stars, planets, and eventually life formed within it. We pursue these questions using massive, multi-modal data sets and large numerical simulations.

Call for abstracts coming later this fall.