Events, News & Highlights, 2015
Events, News & Highlights, 2015
February 9, 2015
News
Congratulations Daweed Abdiel!
February 13, 2015 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Event
Location: Logan Center, Performance Penthouse (915 E 60th St)
KICP Event: The Cabinet: Cosmos

February 23, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
KICP Talk
Location: Crerar Library, Kathleen A. Zar Room
KICP Talk: Mark SubbaRao, Adler Planetarium, "The Future of the Planetarium"

March 5, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Lecture
Location: Adler Planetarium
Lecture: Kavli Prize Lecture: Michael E. Brown, California Institute of Technology, "Tales from the Outer Solar System"

March 9, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
KICP Event
KICP Event: NSF's Google Hangout with KICP

March 24, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
KICP Workshop
Location: Chicago, IL
KICP Workshop: American Society on Aging Workshop: "Bringing Astrophysics to Older Adults"

April 4, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Megan Bedell & Sean Mills, "Exoplanets"

April 11, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Amy Bender - "Cosmology, South Pole Telescope, Galaxy Clusters" & Tyler Natoli - "Cosmology, CMB, South Pole Telescope"

April 12, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
KICP Lecture
Location: Los Angeles, California
KICP Lecture: Harper Lecture: Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb, "Brave New Worlds"

April 16, 2015 @ 4:15 PM
KICP Event
Location: SAIC, Room #707
KICP Event: Cosmosis Conversations: "The Artist and Scientist: Understanding Our Universe and Place Within featuring Jeremy Bolen & Juan Collar"

April 18, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation" & Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

April 23, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: 79th Street (Atlas) Senior Center
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Mike Gladders, "Galaxies near and far, far, away!"

April 25, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Abby Vieregg - "CMB, Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays" & Daan van Rossum - "Radiative Transfer, Supernovae"

April 27, 2015 @ 4:15 PM
KICP Event
Location: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
KICP Event: Cosmosis Conversation: "The Artist and Scientist: Understanding Our Universe and Place Within featuring Sarah and Joseph Belknap + Jacob Bean"

April 29, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Ambassador apartments
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Dan Grin and Jason Henning, " Going to the end of the Earth to study the beginning of the universe"

May 1, 2015
News
Live Session with Michael Turner
May 3, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Lecture
Location: Hyde Park Arts Center
Lecture: COSMOSIS: Opening Reception

May 5, 2015
News
Historic AAAS Kavli Competition Expands to Honor Excellence in Science Journalism Worldwide
May 7, 2015 @ 6:00 PM
KICP Lecture
Location: Toronto, Canada
KICP Lecture: Harper Lecture: Stephan Meyer, "Researching the Universe in Antarctica"

May 13, 2015 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Ambassador apartments
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Richard Kron, "Galaxies!"

May 14, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: 79th Street (Atlas) Senior Center
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Hugh Lippincott and Tongyan Lin, "Dark matter theory and experiment"

May 19, 2015 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Event
Location: GCIS Atrium
KICP Event: SWIP/KICP Pizza with Professors

May 21, 2015 @ 11:00 AM
Talk
Location: Adler Planetarium
Talk: Adler Colloquium: Renee Hlozek, "Current Challenges in CMB Cosmology"

May 25, 2015
News
UChicago celebrates the promise of Chicago youth
May 28, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: 79th Street (Atlas) Senior Center
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Alissa Bans, "Planets around other stars and life on other planets"

May 28, 2015 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Event
Location: Hutch Commons
KICP Event: World Science Festival Live Stream viewing and discussion: "To Infinity and Beyond: The Accelerating Universe"

Organizer: Randall H. Landsberg
May 29, 2015
News
Students in arts and sciences influence, benefit each other
May 29, 2015 @ 4:30 PM
KICP Event
Location: NYU Global Center, Grand Hall
KICP Event: World Science Festival Salon: "Dark Energy: Measuring a Mystery"

May 30, 2015 @ 10:30 AM
KICP Event
Location: 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, 12th Floor, Chicago, IL
KICP Event: Chicago Science Fest: The Mysteries of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe

May 30, 2015 @ 11:00 AM
KICP Lecture
Location: KPTC 106
KICP Lecture: 81st Compton Lectures: Andrew McCann, "Nature's Timepiece: The Exotic World of Pulsars"

June 4, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: 79th Street (Atlas) Senior Center
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Mike Gladders, "Galaxies"

June 5, 2015 @ 4:00 PM
Talk
Location: Stuart Hall, Room 104, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave.
Talk: Alumni Weekend: Edward C. Stone, SM'59, PhD'64, "The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space"

June 14, 2015
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Harbor Point Condominiums
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Daniel Scolnic, "Exploding stars and the acceleration of the universe"

June 16, 2015 @ 12:00 PM
KICP Talk
Location: Adler Planetarium
KICP Talk: Adler Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Daniel Grin, "Astrophysics to older adults"

June 17, 2015
News
KICP Members Win Midwest Famelab Competition
June 18, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: 79th Street (Atlas) Senior Center
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Manos Chatzopoulos, "Exploding Stars"

June 19, 2015
News
Chicago blues and the science in sound
June 24, 2015
News
Kavli Roundtable Discussion: "Dwarf Galaxies Loom Large in the Quest for Dark Matter"
July 2, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: 79th Street (Atlas) Senior Center
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Daniel Grin and Jason Henning "Going to the end of the earth to study the beginning of the Universe"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
July 4, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Nahee Park - "High Energy Astrophysics"

July 11, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Dan Scolnic - "Dark Energy" and Zhen Hou - "Cosmic Microwave Background"

July 15, 2015
News
The Fabric of the Universe
July 18, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Ross Cawthon - "Cosmology, Dark Energy"

July 19, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Sean Mills - "Exoplanets"

July 25, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation"

July 26, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

August 1, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Dan Scolnic - "Dark Energy" and Zhen Hou - "Cosmic Microwave Background"

August 2 - 8, 2015
KICP Yerkes Institute
Location: Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, WI
KICP Yerkes Institute: Mission to Mars: Engineering Design Process, Yerkes Summer Institute

Organizer: Randall H. Landsberg
August 4, 2015 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Conrad Sulzer Public LIbrary
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Dan Scolnic, "Supernovae and the accelerating universe"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
August 8, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Conrad Sulzer Public LIbrary
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Stephan Meyer, "Einstein's relativity"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
August 8, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation"

August 14, 2015 @ 5:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Montgomery Court (a Hyde Park Senior Community)
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Laura Kreidberg, "Exoplanets and astrobiology"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
August 15, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Erik Shirokoff - "Cosmology"

August 22, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Nahee Park - "High Energy Astrophysics"

August 23, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Sean Mills - "Exoplanets"

August 25, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Renaissance Court Senior Center
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Young-Kee Kim, "The Higgs Boson"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
August 27, 2015 @ 9:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Adler Planetarium
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Older Adult field trips to Adler Planetarium - Atlas Center Seniors

Organizer: Daniel Grin
August 29, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Amy Bender - "Cosmology, South Pole Telescope, Galaxy Clusters"

August 30, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

September 1, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Mark SubbaRao, "Large Scale Structure, Cosmology"

September 2, 2015 @ 9:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Adler Planetarium
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Older Adult field trips to Adler Planetarium - Admiral Apartments Seniors

Organizer: Daniel Grin
September 3, 2015 @ 9:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Adler Planetarium
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Older Adult field trips to Adler Planetarium - Forward Chicago Seniors

Organizer: Daniel Grin
September 6, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Phil Mansfield - "Computational Astrophysics & Large Dark Matter Structures"

September 8, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessl - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

September 12, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Abigail Vieregg - "CMB, Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays"

September 13, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Erik Shirokoff

September 17, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Alan Zablocki - "Cosmology, Neutrinos, Dark Energy"

September 17, 2015 @ 9:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Dan Fabrycky - "Exoplanets"

September 18, 2015
KICP Talk
Location: Atlanta, GA
KICP Talk: KICP at the Council for Opportunity in Education conference

September 20, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Ross Cawthon - " Cosmology, Dark Energy"

September 23, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Sean Mills - "Exoplanets"

September 26, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation"

September 27, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

September 30, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Renaissance Court (in Chicago Cultural Center)
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Zhe-Xi Luo, "Evolution"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
October 3, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Phil Mansfield - "Computational Astrophysics & Large Dark Matter Structures"

October 3 - December 12, 2015
Lecture
Location: Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 106
Lecture: 82nd Compton Lectures: Manos Chatzopoulos, "The Cosmic Fireworks that Synthesize the Building Blocks of Life: Supernova Explosions"

October 6, 2015 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Conrad Sulzer Public Library
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Richard Kron, "Galaxies"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
October 7, 2015
News
Three New Kavlis and Brain Initiative: The Kavli Foundation and University Partners Commit $100 Million to Brain Research
October 7, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Sean Mills - "Exoplanets"

October 8, 2015
News
A Japanese physicist and a Canadian physicist helped to show subatomic 'neutrinos' have mass
October 10, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Erik Shirokoff

October 11, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

October 15, 2015 @ 7:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Ben Farr

October 15, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Alan Zablocki - "Cosmology, Neutrinos, Dark Energy"

October 16, 2015 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Montgomery Place Retirement Home (Hyde Park)
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Richard Kron, "Galaxies"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
October 17, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation"

October 21, 2015
News
We've moved into the William Eckhardt Research Center (ERC)!
October 24, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Cameron Liang - "Galaxy Formation & Evolution"

October 24, 2015 @ 2:30 PM
KICP Talk
Location: The Helix Center
KICP Talk: Michael S. Turner, "The Realm of Mystery"

October 25, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

October 31, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Zhen Hou - "Cosmic Microwave Background"

November 1, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Phil Mansfield - "Computational Astrophysics & Large Dark Matter Structures"

November 3, 2015 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Conrad Sulzer Public LIbrary
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Daniel Fabrycky, "Exo-planets"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
November 4, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Admiral Apartments Seniors
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Brittany Kamai, "Cosmology"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
November 6, 2015 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Montgomery Place Retirement Home (Hyde Park)
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Daniel Scolnic, "Supernovae and the Accelerating Universe"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
November 7, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Zhen Hou - "Cosmic Microwave Background"

November 13, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Ali Vanderveld - "Cosmology, Gravitational Lensing"

November 14, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Conrad Sulzer Public Library
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Hugh Lippincott, "Dark matter"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
November 14, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Nahee Park - "High Energy Astrophysics"

November 15, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Ross Cawthon - "Cosmology, Dark Energy"

November 17, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

November 18, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Admiral Apartments Seniors
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Daniel Scolnic, "Supernovae and the Accelerating Universe"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
November 19, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Megan Bedell - "Exoplanets"

November 19, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Alan Zablocki - "Cosmology, Neutrinos, Dark Energy"

November 21, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation"

November 27, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Dan Fabrycky - "Exoplanets"

December 3, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Ali Vanderveld, "Cosmology, Gravitational Lensing"

December 5, 2015 @ 11:00 AM
Lecture
Location: Kersten Physics Teaching Center
Lecture: Physics with a Bang!

December 5, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Cameron Liang - "Galaxy Formation & Evolution" and Zhen Hou - "Cosmic Microwave Background"

December 6, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Cosmin Deaconu - "Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Dark Matter "

December 10, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Sean Mills - "Exoplanets"

December 12, 2015 @ 10:00 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Forward Chicago @ Conrad Sulzer Library
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Prof. Luo Zhe-Xi, "Mammal Evolution"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
December 12, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Amy Bender - "Cosmology, South Pole Telescope, Galaxy Clusters"

December 13, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

December 16, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Admiral Retirement Home
KICP Life Long Learning Series: Megan Bedell, "Exo-planets"

Organizer: Daniel Grin
December 17, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Alan Zablocki - "Cosmology, Neutrinos, Dark Energy"

December 18, 2015 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Dan Fabrycky - "Exoplanets"

December 19, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation"

December 22, 2015
News
Erik Shirokoff has received a NSF CAREER award
December 26, 2015 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium
Astronomy Conversation: Nan Li - "Gravitational Lensing"

December 27 - 29, 2015
KICP Yerkes Institute
Location: Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, WI
KICP Yerkes Institute: The Science of Musical Instruments, Yerkes Winter Institute

Organizer: Randall H. Landsberg