November 14 - 16, 2003 CfCP has organized "Ground-Based Supernova Surveys" workshop to bring together 20-30 key people involved in on-going and planned surveys to assess their goals, discuss results if they're available, and at least raise the issue of strategy and coordination.
September 26 - 28, 2003 The Center for Cosmological Physics has offered a pioneering short course "Cosmology course 2003" for planetarium staff aimed at incorporating modern cosmology into public programming.
September 17 - 20, 2003 CfCP has organized "Cosmology with Sunyaev-Zeldovich Cluster Surveys" workshop which has been focused on the question of how real galaxy clusters, with all their non-idealities, can be used for precision cosmology.
We are pleased to publish the first CfCP Newsletter. Following the advice of the CfCP External Advisory Board, we have decided to start a periodic newsletter to keep the CfCP community (particularly the students and fellows) up-to-date on activities and developments in our Center.
February 11, 2003 Results from the first year of data on the CMB anisotropy collected by the MAP Satellite were presented by Stephan Meyer in a special CfCP seminar, simultaneous with a press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. The 13 accompanying papers are available here.
February 14, 2003 EFI Mini-Symposium: WMAP First Year Results University of Chicago, RI 480 - 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Speakers: Stephen Meyer, (U of C) Gary Hinshaw, (NASA/GSFC), Scott Dodelson, (U of C/Fermi Lab) and Wayne Hu (U of C)
CfCP Fellows Search: CfCP has closed the search for fellows for the year 2003. We are happy to welcome our new fellow appointees Christopher Gordon (from DAMTP, Cambridge UK), Andrew Zentner (from Ohio State University). We are also pleased to welcome Risa Wechsler (from University of Michigan) who will jointly hold Enrico Fermi and CfCP fellowships at Chicago.
The Center for Cosmological Physics offers internship opportunities for Undergraduates. We are currently accepting applications for our REU program for Summer 2003.