The 7th neighborhood workshop

3 - 4 April 2025, Penn State University, State College, PA

• 3 April 2025 (full day), 4 April 2025 (9am - 1pm)
• Main event: Rm 103ABC, Bank of America Career Services Building (566 Eisenhower Rd)
• Discussion: IGC at Whitmore Lab.
• Banquet: Happy Valley Brewing Company (136 Elmwood St)

Workshop Description

The Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos at Penn State will host an informal neighborhood workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology beginning Thursday, 3 April through noon or so on Friday, 4 April 2025.

We want to provide a way for faculty, students and postdocs to meet each other, exchange ideas and hear about the latest research. Talks will be short and informal with a separate discussion session. The specific topics are flexible since the aim of the meeting is to explore the most interesting and active areas of research. Everyone is welcome to speak, and we will give a prize for the best student presentation.

Participating Institutions

This list is participating institutions in this year's workshop:

• Case Western Reserve University
• Haverford College
• Johns Hopkins University
• Lafayette College
• Penn State University
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• Syracuse University
• SUNY at Buffalo
• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Michigan
• University of Pittsburgh
• Virginia Tech

Workshop Program

The final program: here.

Workshop Drive

We use Google Drive to share Q-and-A documents and files.

Hotel Information

We recommend all hotel accommodation requests be sent directly to Courtney Shaffer at cls66642@psu.edu. She will follow up with reservations and payment details.

Banquet

On thursday, we wil have the banquet dinner at Happy Valley Brewing Company. More information will be provided during the workshop.

Contact

Please email Courtney Shaffer with any questions regarding the organization or content of the workshop.