<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Chris's talk will take place in 30 mins at Physics 3027 and on Zoom. We do not provide coffee, but <b>you can grab a cup at the Grad Student Coffee Social (from 3-4pm in front of the Physics Building) before coming.</b> :)<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92989373544?pwd=VlUybFJ5VS91Y2c2QjFMY2dtTitpdz09">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92989373544?pwd=VlUybFJ5VS91Y2c2QjFMY2dtTitpdz09</a><br>ID:929 8937 3544<br>Password:21106<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ming-Feng</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 9:00 AM Ming-Feng Ho <<a href="mailto:mingfeng.ho@email.ucr.edu">mingfeng.ho@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Physics and Astronomy Grads,<br><br>We will have our PASS talk <b><font color="#cc0000">this Wednesday (2/22) at 4 pm</font></b>.<div><br></div><div><b><i>Chris Cain</i> (5th year; PI: Anson D'Aloisio)</b> will tell us about how to constrain the epoch of reionization using his efficient radiative transfer code with a novel sub-grid physics model. If you are interested in hydrogen and 21-cm signals, please come and join us! :)</div><div><br><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Title: Modeling Reionization from Small to Large Scales</b></div><div style="text-align:center">Chris Cain (University of California, Riverside)</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center"><b>Abstract:</b><span style="font-weight:normal"> The Epoch of Reionization (EoR) saw the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) transition from being neutral to highly ionized. This process took place during the first billion years after the Big Bang and was driven by the first generation of HI-ionizing sources, likely the first galaxies. Reionization is a complicated process involving a wide range of physical scales. The shapes and sizes of ionized regions during the EoR are driven by the clustering of galaxies on 100-Mpc scales, while the opacity of the intervening IGM is affected by kpc-scale density fluctuations and the processes regulating the escape of ionizing photons from galaxies take place on even smaller scales. Thus reionization is a challenging problem to solve from a theoretical perspective. I will discuss a radiative transfer code that I developed that is optimized to solve reionization efficiently without sacrificing accuracy. My code uses a novel sub-grid prescription for the opacity of the ionized IGM that is built on high-resolution simulations that resolve the clumping and dynamics of intergalactic gas down to kpc scales. I will also discuss our recent results using this code to better understand reionization observables, including the Lya forest, the ionizing photon mean free path, and the 21 cm signal from HI during the EoR. </span></div><div style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></div><div style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center"><i><u>Wednesday, 2/22, 2023, at 4 pm<br>Physics 3027 (Nebula Room)<br></u></i></div><div style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">In case you couldn't come, the meeting will be hybrid:<br></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92989373544?pwd=VlUybFJ5VS91Y2c2QjFMY2dtTitpdz09" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/92989373544?pwd=VlUybFJ5VS91Y2c2QjFMY2dtTitpdz09</a><br></div><div style="text-align:center"> ID:929 8937 3544<br>Password:21106<br></div><div style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-weight:400">Current speakers for Winter 2022 are in the<span> </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xR325pj7zc9jlHSRb7UKDPtRwLuL3hKGxTIeBxi38wo/edit?usp=sharing" style="font-weight:400" target="_blank">spreadsheet</a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></div><div style="text-align:left;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-weight:400">Next we have ...</span></div><div style="text-align:left"> 3/1: Robert Dawson</div><div style="text-align:left"> 3/8: Archana Aravindan</div><div style="text-align:left"> 3/15: Wenjun Chang</div><div style="text-align:left">... please stay tuned!</div><div style="text-align:left;font-weight:bold"><br style="font-weight:400"><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">About PASS:</span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">---</span><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">PASS is a weekly research seminar organized by and for grad students in UCR Physics and Astronomy department. The primary purpose of this seminar is to create a safe place for grad students to present their research works and practice how to ask/answer good questions.</span><br style="font-weight:400"><br style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday and discussing IGM!</span><div style="font-weight:400"><br></div><div style="font-weight:400">Ming-Feng</div><div style="font-weight:400"><br></div><div style="font-weight:400">---</div><div style="font-weight:400">Ming-Feng Ho</div><div style="font-weight:400">PhD Student</div><div style="font-weight:400">Physics and Astronomy, UCR</div><div style="font-weight:400"></div><br></div><div style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center"><br></div></div></div>
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