KICP Lectures, Talks, & Events
KICP Lectures, Talks, & Events
April 23, 2012Cafe Scientifique: Brad Benson, "The Ends of the Earth & the Beginning of the Universe: The Big Bang, Dark Energy & the South Pole"
April 23, 2012HEP seminar: Maria Monasor, University of Chicago, "Recent Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory"
April 20, 2012John Carlstrom, "Exploring the Universe from the Bottom of the World"
April 2, 2012EFI Colloquium: Don Lamb, University of Chicago, "Scientific Discovery Through Large-Scale Computer Simulations: Type Ia Supernovae and High Energy Density Physics Experiments"
March 30 - April 1, 2012KICP @ 2012 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "At the Crossroads for Science Education"
March 2, 2012Astronomy Open House
February 27, 2012Broader Horizons: Kim Coble, Chicago State University, "Teaching and Research at an Urban Comprehensive University"
February 20, 2012SWIP/KICP Pizza with Professors
January 18, 2012Meg Urry, Yale University, "Women in Science: Why So Few?"
January 10, 2012Broader Horizons: Jeff Bezaire, Jump Trading
January 9, 2012EFI Colloquium: Eric Dahl, "The COUPP Dark Matter Search- Results from the First Year of Deep Underground Running at SNOLAB"
December 14, 2011KICP Astronomy Conversation @ Adler Planetarium
November 7, 2011EFI Colloquium: Andrey Kravtsov, "The chemistry of galaxy formation"
November 1, 20112011-2012 Brinson Lecture: John Mather, Nobel laureate, "History of the universe in a nutshell: from the Big Bang to life and the end of time"
October 31, 2011John Mather, NASA, "James Webb Space Telescope: Science Opportunities and Mission Progress"
October 23, 2011Chicago Humanities Festival: Rocky Kolb, "Telescopes: The Long Lens of History"
October 20, 2011KICP at GLPA Conference: Randall H. Landsberg, Tom Plagge, Mark SubbaRao, Fredrick W. High, "The Hunt for Dark Energy"
June 20, 2011Cafe Scientifique: Chris Lintott, "Why we need you to save science"
June 9, 2011Josh Frieman, "The Dark Universe"
May 14, 201173th Compton Lectures: Nahee Park, "99 years of discovery: What is our current picture of cosmic rays?"
April 18, 2011Cafe Scientifique: Dan Hooper, "Our Dark Cosmos"
April 11, 20112011 University of Chicago Brinson Lecture: Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, "From Big Bang to Biospheres"
April 8, 2011KICP open house for prospective graduate students
March 10 - 13, 2011KICP @ 2011 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "Celebrating the Joy of Science"
December 9, 2010Juan Collar, Rocky Kolb, and Carlos Wagner, "Chicago's Dark Matter: WIMPs of the Underground"
December 6, 2010Benjamin Dean Lecture: Josh Frieman, "The Dark Universe and the Origin of Structure"
December 5, 2010Michael Turner, Works of the Mind Lectures: How Many Universes?
December 4, 2010Physics with a Bang! & Ask a Scientist
November 18, 2010SAIC Lecture: Mike Gladders, "Cosmic Telescopes: Gravitational Lensing by The Most Massive Structures in the Universe"
October 28, 2010SAIC Lecture: Andrey Kravtsov, "Modeling the Universe"
October 21, 2010GLPA Conference: Randy Landsberg and Mark SubbaRao, "Cutting Edge Research Invades the Dome"
October 21, 2010GLPA Conference: Kumiko Kotera, Maria Monasor, and Benjamin Rouille d'Orfeuil, "Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays: A Few Grams of Matter in a Bright World"
October 15, 2010Charles Steidel, 2010 Gruber Prize winner: "Observations of Structure Formation in the Adolescent Universe"
May 10, 2010Dean Lecture: Angela Olinto, "Do Black Holes Play Ball? - Cosmic Messengers of the High Energy Universe "
April 19, 2010SAIC Lecture: Juan Collar, "Searching for Dark Matter in the Sewers of Chicago"
January 25, 2010Cafe Scientifique: Tom Crawford, "Cosmic Road Trip: From Chicago to the South Pole to Edge of the Universe"
November 10, 2009Michael Turner, The Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond stars and the starstuff we are made of"
October 28, 2009Hubble's Story with NASA Astronaut John Grunsfeld
October 21, 2009Brinson Lecture: Kip S. Thorne, "The Warped Side of the Universe: From the Big Bang to Black Holes"
October 19, 2009Cafe Scientifique: Kip Thorne, "The Warped Side of the Universe"
October 3 - December 12, 200970th Compton Lectures: Eric Switzer, "The physics of energy devices"
April 22, 2009Cafe Scientifique: Evalyn Gates, "Looking for Dark Matter through the Bottom of a Wine Glass"
April 4, 2009South Pole Telescope in 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' webcast
April 3, 2009KICP open house for prospective graduate students
March 19 - 22, 2009KICP @ 2009 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "Celebrating the Year of Science"
March 9, 2009Cafe Scientifique: Angela Olinto, "Chasing Cosmic Bullets"
February 24, 2009Michael Turner, Rocky Kolb, and Joe Lykken: "The Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy"
February 16, 2009John Carlstrom, "The Cosmic Microwave Background: Progress and Prospects"
February 16, 2009Scott Dodelson, "Gravitational Waves as a Probe of the Early Universe"
January 17, 2009Hsiao-Wen Chen and Michael Gladders, "Big Questions Big Glass Tour"
January 17, 2009Clem Pryke, "Viewing the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World"
October 4 - December 13, 200868th Compton Lectures: Brian Humensky, "Stars: Their Life and Afterlife"
October 2, 2008Wendy Freedman, Brinson Lecture: "Astronomy in the New Millennium: New Windows on the Cosmos"
September 15, 2008Cafe Scientifique: Juan Collar, "Searching for Cosmic Dark Matter in the Sewers of Chicago"
June 16, 2008Cafe Scientifique: Michael S. Turner, "The Dark Side: from Dark Energy and Dark Matter to Washington and Science Policy"
April 30, 2008Postal Service pays tribute to astronomer Edwin Hubble
April 5 - June 14, 200867th Compton Lectures: Kathryn Schaffer, "Seeing and Believing: Detection, Measurement, and Inference in Experimental Physics"
March 27, 2008Randall Landsberg, "Catching Cosmic Monsters: Powerful & Rare"
January 12, 2008Josh Frieman, Mapping the Heavens: "The Universe Revealed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
December 17, 2007Cafe Scientifique: Clem Pryke, "The Biggest Map in the Universe - the Afterglow of the Big Bang"
December 7, 2007 - January 18, 2008South Pole Telescope Exploratorium Web cast
June 1, 2007John Carlstrom, "The South Pole Telescope"
April 15, 2007Bruce Winstein, Panofsky Prize Talk: "Measurements of Direct CP Violation in the Decays of Neutral Kaons at Fermilab"
March 30 - April 1, 2007KICP @ 2007 NSTA National Conference "A River of Connections"
March 28, 2007Cafe Scientifique: Stephan Meyer, "Measuring the Big Bang: Still Confused After All These Years"
January 13 - March 30, 2007South Pole Telescope Exploratorium Web cast, 2007
December 17, 2006Edward "Rocky" Kolb, "Einstein's Cosmic Legacy"
November 30, 2006Stephan S. Meyer, "The Cosmic Microwave Background: Light from the Big Bang"
November 25 - December 29, 2006South Pole Telescope Exploratorium Web cast, 2006
October 25 - 26, 2006KICP @ Great Lakes Planetarium Association Meeting
October 18, 2006Cafe Scientifique: Jeff McMahon, Icy Eye on the Infant Universe: Tales from an Antarctic Cosmologist
October 5, 2006Lee Smolin, Public lecture on his new book "The Trouble with Physics"
November 3, 2005Lawrence M. Krauss, Public Lecture on his book: "Hiding in the Mirror"
April 6 - June 15, 200255th Compton Lectures: Clem Pryke, "Sketching the Biggest Picture --- The Adventure of Experimental Cosmology"