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Other EventsMay 6, 2019 | EFI Colloquium: Zohar Komargodski, "The Power of Conformal Symmetry" | April 9, 2019 | Brinson lecture: Sara Seager, "Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds" | February 25 - 26, 2019 | Midwest Workshop on Supernovae and Transients | February 21, 2019 | Physics colloquium: Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University, "Heretical hypotheses in the hunt for dark matter" | February 1, 2019 | PSD colloquium: Pierre-Louis Lions, College de France, "Mean Field Games: What? Why? How?" | January 7, 2019 | EFI colloquium: Damiano Caprioli, "On the origin of the cosmic radiation - 70 years later (a tribute for Fermi's pioneering paper of 1949)" | November 8, 2018 | Physics colloquium: Helen Quinn, "Science, Engineering and Art as well - why is it hard to teach Science well?" | October 30, 2018 | Inaugural John A. Simpson lecture: Martin H. Israel, Washington University, "What Rare Isotopes and Rare Elements Tell Us About the Origin of Cosmic Rays" | October 2, 2018 | "On the Future: Prospects for Humanity" with physicist Martin Rees | May 17, 2018 | 2018 Brinson Lecture: Richard Ellis, "Let There Be Light: The Observational Quest for the First Galaxies" | April 14, 2018 | Speak Up for Science | March 14, 2018 | EFI seminar: Nahee Park, University of Wisconsin, "Probing high energy particle dynamics in our Galaxy with multimessenger observations" | December 9, 2017 | Physics with a BANG | May 30, 2017 | NASA's Solar Probe mission discussion | April 25, 2017 | 2016-2017 Brinson Lecture: Nergis Mavalvala, "The Warped Universe: the one hundred year quest to discover Einstein's gravitational waves" | April 24, 2017 | EFI colloquium: Adrienne Kolb, "Tunnel Visions: The History of the Superconducting Super Collider" | March 10, 2017 | Society of Women in Physics: Dr. Kawtar Hafidi, "A Personal Odyssey: From Africa to America" | November 3, 2016 | Physics colloquium: Elisabeth Krause, Stanford University/SLAC, "Dark Energy Science with the Dark Energy Survey, and Beyond" | October 27, 2016 | Argonne OutLoud: Clarence Chang, "To the ends of the Earth...and the beginning of the cosmos" | October 24, 2016 | Cafe Scientifique: Dan Scolnic, "Tension in the Universe: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Different Numbers" | October 24, 2016 | 2016 Leon Lederman Lecture: Rocky Kolb, "The Mysterious Dark Universe" | August 7, 2016 | Windy City Physics Slam: Where Particle Physicists Collide | May 19, 2016 | The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at 20: Prospects for Ratification and the Enduring Risks of Nuclear Testing | May 5, 2016 | Kavli Lecture: Michael Turner, "From The Big Bang To The Multiverse & Beyond" | April 21, 2016 | Astrophysics for Older Adults | April 18, 2016 | Chicago Astronomy on Tap | April 15, 2016 | Astronomy Conversations Training Session | April 14, 2016 | The World's Oldest Computer: The Antikythera Mechanis | April 14, 2016 | Joshua Frieman in the Deborah Stratman film "The Illinois Parables" | April 9, 2016 | UChicago Conference: "Space: Speculation and Exploration" | April 7, 2016 | Broader Horizons: Joshua Carter, quantitative analyst at Citadel in Chicago | March 28, 2016 | Cafe Scientifique: Erik Shirokoff, "Using nano-scale devices at the South Pole to study the most distant objects in the Universe" | February 25, 2016 | Physics colloquium: Scott Wakely, University of Chicago, "Isotope Hunting at 100,000ft: Tracking Cosmic-Ray Clocks with HELIX" | February 11, 2016 | Physics colloquium: Daniel Holz, University of Chicago, "Update on LIGO and Gravitational Waves" | February 9, 2016 | 2015-2016 Brinson Lecture: Francis Halzen, "Ice Fishing for Neutrinos" | January 7, 2016 | Physics colloquium: Stephan Meyer, University of Chicago, "First results from the Fermilab Holometer testing space-time correlations at the Planck scale" | December 5, 2015 | Physics with a Bang! | November 10, 2015 | Midwest Cosmic Visions Meeting | November 5, 2015 | Physics colloquium: Wendy Freedman, University of Chicago, "Measurement of Cosmological Parameters" | November 4 - 6, 2015 | Higgs Effective Field Theories (HEFT 2015) | October 23, 2015 | Jim Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Quantum Origin of Our Classical Universe" | October 17, 2015 | More Than a Physicist - A 70th Birthday Symposium in Honor of Don Lamb | October 3 - December 12, 2015 | 82nd Compton Lectures: Manos Chatzopoulos, "The Cosmic Fireworks that Synthesize the Building Blocks of Life: Supernova Explosions" | July 13, 2015 | Abigail Crites, Caltech, "The TIME-Pilot CII Intensity Mapping Experiment to Study the Epoch of Reionization" | June 5, 2015 | Alumni Weekend: Edward C. Stone, SM'59, PhD'64, "The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space" | May 21, 2015 | Adler Colloquium: Renee Hlozek, "Current Challenges in CMB Cosmology" | May 3, 2015 | COSMOSIS: Opening Reception | March 5, 2015 | Kavli Prize Lecture: Michael E. Brown, California Institute of Technology, "Tales from the Outer Solar System" | February 19, 2015 | Adler colloquium: Andy Howell, Las Cumbres Global Telescope/UC Santa Barbara, "Understanding Mysterious Sources of Energy in Supernovae" | February 16, 2015 | HEP seminar: Kerstin Perez, Haverford, "Antideutron Signatures of Dark Matter with the GAPS Experiment" | February 3, 2015 | Astronomy Special Seminar: Ryan Foley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Transient Astronomy: Dark Energy, Supernova Physics & Exotica" | January 27, 2015 | Astronomy Special Seminar: George Becker, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The End of Reionization: An IGM Perspective" | January 13, 2015 | Astronomy Special Seminar: Emily Levesque, University of Colorado, "Engines, Lighthouses, and Laboratories: Massive Stars Across the Cosmos" | December 9, 2014 | Astronomy Special Seminar: Blakesley Burkhart, Harvard University, "New Frontiers of Magnetized Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium" | December 6, 2014 | Physics with a Bang! Holiday Lecture and Open House | November 6, 2014 | Physics colloquium: Victoria M. Kaspi, McGill University, "The Hunt for Millisecond Pulsars" | November 5, 2014 | 2014 Brinson Lecture: Victoria M. Kaspi, "Neutron Stars, a Cosmic Gift" | September 24, 2014 | Workshop: "Structuring Your Scientific Paper" | July 10, 2014 | Computations in Science Seminar: Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute, "On Quantum Tunneling" | June 12, 2014 | Flash Center Special Seminar: Christian Ott, Caltech, "New Aspects of Core-Collapse Supernova Theory" | April 24, 2014 | Physics colloquium: Adam Riess, "The Hubble Constant and Dark Energy from Supernovae, Cepheids and Parallax" | March 24 - 27, 2014 | Joint DES-LSST Workshop | February 5, 2014 | Savdeep S. Sethi, University of Chicago, "Domain Walls and Gravity" | January 23, 2014 | Physics colloquium: Vyacheslav Turyshev, California Institute of Technology,"Testing Fundamental Gravitation in Space: Recent Progress and Possible Future Directions" | January 22, 2014 | Computations in Science Seminar: Juan Collar, University of Chicago, "Uncertainties in dark matter searches" | January 9, 2014 | Physics colloquium: Kurt Hinterbichler, Perimeter Institute, "Massive gravitons, the cosmological constant and new directions in gravity" | December 7, 2013 | Physics with a Bang! Holiday Lecture and Open House | October 15, 2013 | 2013 Brinson Lecture: Andrea M. Ghez, "The Monster at the Heart of the Milky Way" | September 10 - 11, 2013 | Discussion Meeting about agreements for LIGO-Virgo Event Follow-up Program | September 3 - 6, 2013 | Meeting to Anticipate KIPAC's Next 10 years of Science: "Big Questions in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology" | March 14, 2013 | Kathryn Zurek, University of Michigan, "Cosmic clues for dark matter and their implications for a dark matter asymmetry" | March 6 - 8, 2013 | Cosmic Frontier Workshop | December 14, 2012 | Special EFI Seminar: Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, University of Wisconsin "Searches for Astronomical Neutrino Sources with IceCube" | December 13, 2012 | Special EFI Seminar: Stefan Ballmer, Syracuse University "Promise and Challenges of Future Gravitational-Wave Observatories" | December 12, 2012 | Special EFI Seminar: Abigail Vieregg, Harvard University "Exploring the Ultra-High Energy Universe through Radio Detection Techniques" | December 10, 2012 | Special EFI Seminar: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University "Gravitational Waves: A New Frontier in 21st Century Astrophysics" | December 8, 2012 | Physics with a Bang | October 29, 2012 | Cafe Scientifique: Elbert Huang, "Healthcare Reform: The Intersection of Science and Money" | October 15, 2012 | 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 2, 2012 | 2012 Brinson Lecture: David Charbonneau, "The Fast Track to Find an Inhabited Exoplanet" | May 11 - 12, 2012 | Women in Science Symposium 2012: Big Ideas, Big Impact | May 7, 2012 | RogerFest: Roger Hildebrand Colloquium | March 23, 2012 | Blowing up a mountain for the GMT | March 16, 2012 | About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang | March 7, 2012 | EFI Colloquium: Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, "Current State and Prospects for LIGO" | December 3, 2011 | Ask a Scientist & Physics with a Bang | November 29, 2011 | Science in Action: How Scientists Can Affect Policy Decisions | November 21, 2011 | Cafe Scientifique: Liz Moyer, "A Reality Check on Alternative Energy" | November 12, 2011 | Play "Creation's Birthday," written by Prof. Hasan Padamsee, Cornell University | November 1, 2011 | 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 1, 2011 | Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, "Energy and the Accelerating Universe: Einstein's Blunder Undone" | September 20, 2011 | Peter McGregor, Australian National University, "The GMT Integral-Field Spectrograph (GMTIFS): What It Can Do for You!" | August 31, 2011 | Sundeep Das, University of California (Berkeley) , "Probing Cosmology and Particle Physics with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope" | August 11, 2011 | Andrew Szentgyorgyi, CfA, "G-CLEF: A Versatile, Optical Echelle Spectrograph for the GMT" | August 5, 2011 | Darren DePoy, Texas A&M University, "A wide-field, multi-object, moderate-resolution optical spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope" | August 3, 2011 | Dan Fabricant, CfA, "NIRMOS: Wide Field Near-IR Imaging and Spectroscopy for GMT" | June 2, 2011 | Fermi's time capsule opening | April 20, 2011 | "One Book, One Chicago": Lawrence Krauss | April 11, 2011 | 2011 University of Chicago Brinson Lecture: Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, "From Big Bang to Biospheres" | October 11, 2010 | Cafe Scientifique: Sian Beilock, "Why Do We Choke?" | August 12, 2010 | Patrick McCarthy, Director of the Giant Magellan Telescope: "The Giant Magellan Telescope" | October 21, 2009 | Brinson Lecture: Kip S. Thorne, "The Warped Side of the Universe: From the Big Bang to Black Holes" | January 12, 2009 | Cafe Scientifique: Steven Small, "The Brain, the Broken Brain & the Neural Biology of Language" | November 8, 2008 | Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, public lecture: "The View From the Center of the Universe" | October 2, 2008 | Wendy Freedman, Brinson Lecture: "Astronomy in the New Millennium: New Windows on the Cosmos" | June 15 - 18, 2008 | Workshop: Science with Giant Telescopes: Public Participation in TMT and GMT | May 6 - 8, 2008 | Astroparticle Physics Symposium: "The High Energy Frontier" | March 10, 2008 | Cafe Scientifique: Melina Hale, "Bombs and Brains: Examining Traumatic Brain Injury from the War in Iraq" | October 29, 2007 | Cafe Scientifique: Jake Socha, "How Flying Snakes Fly a.k.a. Functional Morphology & Biomechanics" | September 24, 2007 | Big Bang Smackdown | July 5 - 6, 2007 | SPT Collaboration Meeting | June 18, 2007 | Cafe Scientifique: Mark Osadjan, "Is it in the Genes or Just the Jeans? The Biology of Gender" | May 17 - 18, 2007 | SPT Full Collaboration Meeting | May 14 - 16, 2007 | SPT Analysis Working Group Meeting | March 24 - June 2, 2007 | 65<sup>th</sup> Compton Lectures: Elizabeth Hays, "The Quest for Gamma Rays: Exploring the Most Violent Places in the Universe" | January 10, 2007 | Cafe Scientifique: David Archer, "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast" | October 20, 2006 | EFI Mini-Symposium: In Honor of Dietrich Muller | October 28, 2005 | Symposium in Honor of Don Lamb's 60th Birthday | October 7, 2005 | EFI Mini-Symposium | March 8, 2002 | EFI Mini-Symposium on the SDSS |
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