Events Schedule, 2011
Workshops & Events Schedule, 2011
January 28, 2011
KICP Workshop
BruceFest: Bruce Winstein Symposium
March 10 - 13, 2011
KICP Talk
KICP @ 2011 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "Celebrating the Joy of Science"
March 11, 2011
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Winter 2011 Postdocs Symposium
March 31 - April 1, 2011
KICP Workshop
Jonathan Rosner Symposium
April 8, 2011
KICP Event
KICP open house for prospective graduate students
April 11, 2011
Lecture
2011 University of Chicago Brinson Lecture: Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, "From Big Bang to Biospheres"
April 18, 2011
KICP Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Dan Hooper, "Our Dark Cosmos"
April 20, 2011
Talk
"One Book, One Chicago": Lawrence Krauss
May 13 - 15, 2011
KICP Workshop
Cosmological Non-Gaussianity: Observations Confront Theory Workshop
May 14, 2011
KICP Lecture
73th Compton Lectures: Nahee Park, "99 years of discovery: What is our current picture of cosmic rays?"
June 1, 2011
KICP Workshop
Plaque to honor Bruce Winstein's contributions to the Fermilab
June 2, 2011
Talk
Fermi's time capsule opening
June 6, 2011
PhD Thesis Defense
Alison Brizius, "Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Polarization Anisotropy at 40 GHz and 90 GHz with the Q/U Imaging Experiment (QUIET)"
June 9, 2011
KICP Lecture
Josh Frieman, "The Dark Universe"
June 10, 2011
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Spring 2011 Postdocs Symposium
June 20, 2011
KICP Event
Cafe Scientifique: Chris Lintott, "Why we need you to save science"
July 14, 2011
PhD Thesis Defense
Jean-Rene Gauthier, "A comprehensive study of the cool gas content of massive dark matter halos"
July 18, 2011
PhD Thesis Defense
Matthew Bayliss, "Broadband Photometry of 105 Giant Arcs: Redshift Distribution Constraints and Implications for Giant Arc Statistics"
July 18, 2011
PhD Thesis Defense
Zosia Krusberg, "The phenomenology of maverick dark matter"
July 20, 2011
PhD Thesis Defense
Cora Dvorkin, "On the Imprints of Inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background"
July 20, 2011
PhD Thesis Defense
Megan Gralla, "Radio Sources in Galaxy Clusters"
August 3, 2011
Talk
Dan Fabricant, CfA, "NIRMOS: Wide Field Near-IR Imaging and Spectroscopy for GMT"
August 5, 2011
Talk
Darren DePoy, Texas A&M University, "A wide-field, multi-object, moderate-resolution optical spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope"
August 7 - 13, 2011
KICP Yerkes Institute
Detectors/Super Sensing, Yerkes Summer Institute
August 11, 2011
Talk
Andrew Szentgyorgyi, CfA, "G-CLEF: A Versatile, Optical Echelle Spectrograph for the GMT"
August 28 - September 2, 2011
KICP Workshop
19th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions
August 31, 2011
Talk
Sundeep Das, University of California (Berkeley) , "Probing Cosmology and Particle Physics with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope"
September 20, 2011
Talk
Peter McGregor, Australian National University, "The GMT Integral-Field Spectrograph (GMTIFS): What It Can Do for You!"
September 26, 2011
KICP Workshop
PFC3 Collaboration Meeting
October 1 - December 10, 2011
KICP Lecture
74th Compton Lectures: Mark Wyman, "Before the beginning to after the end"
October 20, 2011
PhD Thesis Defense
Florin Ionita: "A Study of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Composition and Hadronic Interactions with Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory"
October 20, 2011
KICP Talk
KICP at GLPA Conference: Randall H. Landsberg, Tom Plagge, Mark SubbaRao, Fredrick W. High, "The Hunt for Dark Energy"
October 23, 2011
KICP Lecture
Chicago Humanities Festival: Rocky Kolb, "Telescopes: The Long Lens of History"
October 31, 2011
KICP Event
John Mather, NASA, "James Webb Space Telescope: Science Opportunities and Mission Progress"
November 1, 2011
Lecture
Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, "Energy and the Accelerating Universe: Einstein's Blunder Undone"
November 1, 2011
Lecture
2011-2012 Brinson Lecture: John Mather, Nobel laureate, "History of the universe in a nutshell: from the Big Bang to life and the end of time"
November 7, 2011
KICP Talk
EFI Colloquium: Andrey Kravtsov, "The chemistry of galaxy formation"
November 12, 2011
Talk
Play "Creation's Birthday," written by Prof. Hasan Padamsee, Cornell University
November 21, 2011
Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Liz Moyer, "A Reality Check on Alternative Energy"
November 29, 2011
Workshop
Science in Action: How Scientists Can Affect Policy Decisions
December 3, 2011
Lecture
Ask a Scientist & Physics with a Bang
December 8, 2011
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Fall 2011 Postdocs Symposium
December 14, 2011
KICP Event
Astronomy Conversation @ Adler Planetarium
December 27 - 29, 2011
KICP Yerkes Institute
Up!: Thrust, Buoyancy, and Drag, Yerkes Winter Institute