Events Schedule, 2012
Workshops & Events Schedule, 2012
January 9, 2012
KICP Talk
EFI Colloquium: Eric Dahl, "The COUPP Dark Matter Search- Results from the First Year of Deep Underground Running at SNOLAB"
January 10, 2012
KICP Event
Broader Horizons: Jeff Bezaire, Jump Trading
January 18, 2012
KICP Talk
Meg Urry, Yale University, "Women in Science: Why So Few?"
February 20, 2012
KICP Event
SWIP/KICP Pizza with Professors
February 22 - 24, 2012
KICP Workshop
US JEM-EUSO Working Group Meeting
February 27, 2012
KICP Event
Broader Horizons: Kim Coble, Chicago State University, "Teaching and Research at an Urban Comprehensive University"
February 27 - March 1, 2012
WorldWide
Symposium: Symmetries and Phases in the Universe
March 2, 2012
KICP Event
Astronomy Open House
March 7, 2012
Workshop
EFI Colloquium: Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Current State and Prospects for LIGO"
March 15, 2012
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Winter 2012 Postdocs Symposium
March 16, 2012
Lecture
About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
March 16 - 17, 2012
KICP Workshop
Supernova Hub workshop: "Photometric Identification of Supernova"
March 23, 2012
Talk
Blowing up a mountain for the GMT
March 30 - April 1, 2012
KICP Talk
KICP @ 2012 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "At the Crossroads for Science Education"
April 2, 2012
KICP Talk
EFI Colloquium: Don Lamb, University of Chicago, "Scientific Discovery Through Large-Scale Computer Simulations: Type Ia Supernovae and High Energy Density Physics Experiments"
April 6, 2012
KICP Workshop
Chicagoland and Midwest Dark Matter Workshop
April 19 - 21, 2012
KICP Workshop
Non-Gaussianity Hub
April 20, 2012
KICP Lecture
John Carlstrom, "Exploring the Universe from the Bottom of the World"
April 23, 2012
KICP Talk
HEP seminar: Maria Monasor, University of Chicago, "Recent Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory"
April 23, 2012
KICP Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Brad Benson, "The Ends of the Earth & the Beginning of the Universe: The Big Bang, Dark Energy & the South Pole"
April 30, 2012
PhD Thesis Defense
Hao Huan: "Cosmic Gamma-Ray Propagation as a Probe for Intergalactic Media and Interactions"
May 7, 2012
Workshop
RogerFest: Roger Hildebrand Colloquium
May 7 - 9, 2012
WorldWide
Phenomenology 2012 Symposium: LHC Lights the Way to New Physics
May 11 - 12, 2012
Workshop
Women in Science Symposium 2012: Big Ideas, Big Impact
May 14 - 17, 2012
WorldWide
The Seventh Harvard-Smithsonian Conference in Theoretical Astrophysics entitled "Testing General Relativity (GR) with Astrophysical Systems"
May 18 - 19, 2012
KICP Workshop
The 4th Neutrino
May 22, 2012
KICP Event
Broader Horizons: Francis Slakey, Georgetown University
May 30 - 31, 2012
KICP Workshop
The Dark Energy Spectrometer
May 31 - June 2, 2012
WorldWide
Transitioning to Faculty Life: A Conference for Post-Docs Underrepresented in STEM
June 1, 2012
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Spring 2012 Postdocs Symposium
June 7, 2012
KICP Event
Special colloquium: Geoff Marcy, Honorary Degree Recipient, "ExoPlanets: From Jupiters to Earths"
June 8, 2012
PhD Thesis Defense
Immanuel Buder: "Measurement of the CMB Polarization at 95 GHz from QUIET"
June 14, 2012
KICP Talk
Science in the Second City
June 17 - 23, 2012
WorldWide
2012 CARMA Summer School
July 3, 2012
PhD Thesis Defense
Eva Wuyts: "A Magnified View of High Redshift Star Formation"
July 10, 2012
PhD Thesis Defense
Christopher Kelso: "Recent Results in Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments"
July 11 - 21, 2012
KICP Summer School
Summer School: Dark Matter Detectors
July 13 - 15, 2012
WorldWide
The LHC, Particle Physics and the Cosmos
July 20, 2012
PhD Thesis Defense
Samuel Leitner: "The Star Formation History of Disk Galaxies & Implications for Simulations"
July 23 - 27, 2012
KICP Workshop
9th International Conference "Identification of Dark Matter"
July 23 - August 3, 2012
WorldWide
40th SLAC Summer Institute: The Electroweak Scale: Unraveling the Mysteries at the LHC
August 3, 2012
PhD Thesis Defense
Melanie Simet: "Galaxy cluster center detection methods with weak lensing"
August 5 - 11, 2012
KICP Yerkes Institute
Making & Breaking: Destructive Testing , Yerkes Summer Institute
August 15, 2012
KICP Event
NASA Teleconference About Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster
August 24 - 26, 2012
WorldWide
Workshop on Cosmic Acceleration
September 10 - 14, 2012
WorldWide
COSMO 2012
September 10 - 14, 2012
WorldWide
Multicosmofun'12: Multiverse and Fundamental Cosmology
September 14, 2012
KICP Talk
Bradford Benson: "The Ends of the Earth & the Beginning of the Universe: The Big Bang, Dark Energy & the South Pole"
September 26 - 28, 2012
KICP Cosmology Course
"Dark Matters", Short Course for Museum & Planetarium Staff
September 28 - 29, 2012
KICP Workshop
22nd Midwest Relativity Meeting
September 30 - October 5, 2012
WorldWide
The 2012 FeynRules/MadGraph School on LHC Phenomenology
October 2, 2012
Lecture
2012 Brinson Lecture: David Charbonneau, "The Fast Track to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet"
October 9, 2012
KICP Event
KICP Welcome Reception
October 11, 2012
KICP Talk
John Carlstrom, "Exploring the Universe from the Bottom of the World"
October 12, 2012
KICP Event
Webcast with Josh Frieman, "Can a New Camera Unravel the Nature of Dark Energy?"
October 15, 2012
Talk
Flash Center seminar: Manos Chatzopoulos, University of Texas at Austin, "Superluminous Supernovae from Pair Instability and from SN ejecta - Circumstellar Matter Interaction: Insights from Light Curve Fits and Simulations"
October 18 - 20, 2012
KICP Workshop
Sackler colloquium: "Dark Matter Universe: On the Threshhold of Discovery"
October 29, 2012
PhD Thesis Defense
Christopher Greer, "Calibrating Optical Richness using Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations"
October 29, 2012
Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Elbert Huang, "Healthcare Reform: The Intersection of Science and Money"
November 8, 2012
KICP Talk
Dietrich Muller, University of Chicago, "HUNDRED YEARS OF COSMIC RAYS: Some Reflections on the Research in Chicago"
November 14, 2012
KICP Event
Kavli Foundation President Robert Conn visits the KICP
December 6, 2012
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Fall 2012 Postdocs Symposium
December 8, 2012
Lecture
Physics with a Bang
December 10, 2012
Talk
Special EFI Seminar: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University "Gravitational Waves: A New Frontier in 21st Century Astrophysics"
December 11, 2012
KICP Talk
Special EFI Seminar: Pedro Facal, University of Chicago, "Radio-detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays"
December 12, 2012
Talk
Special EFI Seminar: Abigail Vieregg, Harvard University "Exploring the Ultra-High Energy Universe through Radio Detection Techniques"
December 13, 2012
Talk
Special EFI Seminar: Stefan Ballmer, Syracuse University "Promise and Challenges of Future Gravitational-Wave Observatories"
December 14, 2012
Talk
Special EFI Seminar: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, University of Wisconsin "Searches for Astronomical Neutrino Sources with IceCube"
December 27 - 29, 2012
KICP Yerkes Institute
Vision, Yerkes Winter Institute