Events Schedule, 2009
Workshops & Events Schedule, 2009
January 12, 2009
Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Steven Small, "The Brain, the Broken Brain & the Neural Biology of Language"
January 17, 2009
KICP Talk
Clem Pryke, "Viewing the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World"
January 17, 2009
KICP Talk
Hsiao-Wen Chen and Michael Gladders, "Big Questions Big Glass Tour"
February 16, 2009
KICP Talk
John Carlstrom, "The Cosmic Microwave Background: Progress and Prospects"
February 16, 2009
KICP Talk
Scott Dodelson, "Gravitational Waves as a Probe of the Early Universe"
February 24, 2009
KICP Talk
Michael Turner, Rocky Kolb, and Joe Lykken: "The Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy"
March 9, 2009
KICP Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Angela Olinto, "Chasing Cosmic Bullets"
March 19 - 22, 2009
KICP Talk
KICP @ 2009 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "Celebrating the Year of Science"
April 3, 2009
KICP Event
KICP open house for prospective graduate students
April 4, 2009
KICP Talk
South Pole Telescope in 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' webcast
April 22, 2009
KICP Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Evalyn Gates, "Looking for Dark Matter through the Bottom of a Wine Glass"
June 12, 2009
PhD Thesis Defense
Fabian Schmidt, "Structure Formation in Braneworld Cosmology"
July 1 - 3, 2009
KICP Workshop
The Path to CMBPol - Upcoming Measurements of CMB Polarization
July 15, 2009
PhD Thesis Defense
Michael Mortonson, "Testing flatness of the universe with probes of cosmic distances and growth"
July 21, 2009
PhD Thesis Defense
Robert Friedman, "Measuring the Small Angular Scale Anisotropy with the QUaD Telescope"
July 28, 2009
PhD Thesis Defense
Tonia Venters, "Cascades of VHE Gamma Rays from Blazars and the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background"
August 1 - 7, 2009
KICP Yerkes Institute
The Physics of Sound, Yerkes Summer Institute
August 31, 2009
PhD Thesis Defense
Phil Barbeau, "Neutrino and astroparticle physics with P-type point contact high purity germanium detectors"
September 25, 2009
KICP Workshop
Michael Turner's Universe: 60th Birthday Extravaganza
October 3 - December 12, 2009
KICP Lecture
70th Compton Lectures: Eric Switzer, "The physics of energy devices"
October 19, 2009
KICP Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Kip Thorne, "The Warped Side of the Universe"
October 21, 2009
Lecture
Brinson Lecture: Kip S. Thorne, "The Warped Side of the Universe: From the Big Bang to Black Holes"
October 28, 2009
KICP Lecture
Hubble's Story with NASA Astronaut John Grunsfeld
November 2, 2009
PhD Thesis Defense
Joaquin D. Vieira, "Extragalactic point source statistics measured with the South Pole Telescope"
November 5, 2009
PhD Thesis Defense
Thomas Downes, " The population of submillimeter galaxies and its impact on the detection of the Sunyaev-Zel'Dovich Effect"
November 10, 2009
KICP Talk
Michael Turner, The Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond stars and the starstuff we are made of"
December 27 - 29, 2009
KICP Yerkes Institute
Exploring the Solar System, Yerkes Winter Institute