KICP Lectures, Talks, & Events
KICP Lectures, Talks, & Events
June 5, 2013Live webcast: "The Hunt for Distant Galaxies"
June 4, 2013Broader Horizons: Jessica Kirkpatrick, data scientist / analyst for the social network Yammer
May 13, 2013Broader Horizons: Maria Cruz, Editor at Science
April 17, 2013Ryerson Lecture: Michael S. Turner, "Quarks and the Cosmos"
March 29, 2013Interview with John Carlstrom, "Witnessing Starbursts in the Early Universe"
March 1, 2013Astronomy Open House
February 19, 2013SWIP/KICP Pizza with Professors
February 5, 2013The Artful Universe with cosmologist Michael S. Turner
December 11, 2012Special EFI Seminar: Pedro Facal, University of Chicago, "Radio-detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays"
November 14, 2012Kavli Foundation President Robert Conn visits the KICP
November 8, 2012Dietrich Muller, University of Chicago, "HUNDRED YEARS OF COSMIC RAYS: Some Reflections on the Research in Chicago"
October 12, 2012Webcast with Josh Frieman, "Can a New Camera Unravel the Nature of Dark Energy?"
October 11, 2012John Carlstrom, "Exploring the Universe from the Bottom of the World"
October 9, 2012KICP Welcome Reception
October 2, 20122012 Brinson Lecture: David Charbonneau, "The Fast Track to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet"
September 14, 2012Bradford Benson: "The Ends of the Earth & the Beginning of the Universe: The Big Bang, Dark Energy & the South Pole"
August 15, 2012NASA Teleconference About Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster
June 7, 2012Special colloquium: Geoff Marcy, Honorary Degree Recipient, "ExoPlanets: From Jupiters to Earths"
May 22, 2012Broader Horizons: Francis Slakey, Georgetown University
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"