<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="gmail-">Dear all,</p>
<p class="gmail-">Please join us for this week’s Physics & Astronomy Colloquium on Thursday, May 1, featuring Dr. Alexander Ji, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.</p>
<p class="gmail-">🗓 Thursday, May 1, 2025<br>
🕓 Colloquium at 3:40 PM<br>
📍 Winston Chung Hall, Room 138<br>
☕ Coffee at 3:00 PM – Barkas Lounge (3049 Physics)<br>
🎓 Grad Student Meet & Greet at 2:30 PM – Barkas Lounge</p>
<p class="gmail-"><b>Talk Title:</b><br>
Near Field Cosmology with Dwarf Galaxies in the LSST Era</p>
<p class="gmail-"><b>About the Talk:</b><br>
Dr. Ji will explore how dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way can help us understand the early universe and dark matter. His talk will cover two key avenues of research in the upcoming LSST era: tidal debris studies and the classification of ultra-faint galaxies. These efforts promise to deepen our understanding of galaxy formation and the properties of dark matter.</p>
<p class="gmail-"><strong>Speaker Bio:</strong><br>
Dr. Alexander Ji received his PhD in Physics from MIT in 2017, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at Carnegie Observatories. He joined the University of Chicago in 2021. His research in near-field cosmology uses nearby stars and galaxies to probe the nature of dark matter and the earliest epochs of the universe.</p>
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