December 7, 2007 - January 18, 2008 KICP Talk | South Pole Telescope Exploratorium Web cast |
January 12, 2008 KICP Talk | Josh Frieman, Mapping the Heavens: "The Universe Revealed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" |
March 10, 2008 Talk | Cafe Scientifique: Melina Hale, "Bombs and Brains: Examining Traumatic Brain Injury from the War in Iraq" |
March 27, 2008 KICP Talk | Randall Landsberg, "Catching Cosmic Monsters: Powerful & Rare" |
April 4, 2008 KICP Event | KICP open house for prospective graduate students |
April 5 - June 14, 2008 KICP Lecture | 67th Compton Lectures: Kathryn Schaffer, "Seeing and Believing: Detection, Measurement, and Inference in Experimental Physics" |
April 30, 2008 KICP Talk | Postal Service pays tribute to astronomer Edwin Hubble |
May 6 - 8, 2008 Workshop | Astroparticle Physics Symposium: "The High Energy Frontier" |
June 5, 2008 PhD Thesis Defense | Hiroaki Oyaizu, "N-body simulations of modified gravity" |
June 13, 2008 PhD Thesis Defense | Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, "Revealing dark matter substructure with anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background" |
June 15 - 18, 2008 Workshop | Workshop: Science with Giant Telescopes: Public Participation in TMT and GMT |
June 16, 2008 KICP Talk | Cafe Scientifique: Michael S. Turner, "The Dark Side: from Dark Energy and Dark Matter to Washington and Science Policy" |
June 23 - 26, 2008 KICP Workshop | CMBPol Workshop: Theory and Foreground |
June 25, 2008 KICP Workshop | Digital Sky Academy |
July 24, 2008 PhD Thesis Defense | Charles Shapiro, "The effects of neglecting reduced shear on dark energy constraints from three-dimensional weak lensing methods" |
July 28, 2008 PhD Thesis Defense | Matthew Sharp, "Measuring small-scale anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array" |
July 28, 2008 PhD Thesis Defense | Benjamin E. Dilday, "Type Ia supernova rate studies from the SDSS-II Supernova Study" |
July 28 - 30, 2008 KICP Workshop | CMBPol Workshop: Mitigating Systematic Errors in Space-based CMB Polarization Measurements |
July 29, 2008 PhD Thesis Defense | Marcos Lima, "Non-linear Structure in Modified Action Theories of Gravity" |
July 31, 2008 PhD Thesis Defense | Carlos Cunha, "Cross-Calibration of Cluster Mass-Observables and Dark Energy" |
August 1, 2008 PhD Thesis Defense | Sarah Hansen, "Correlating Optical and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Measurements of Galaxy Clusters in the SZA Survey" |
August 2 - 8, 2008 KICP Yerkes Institute | Energy Transformations, Yerkes Summer Institute |
August 15 - 18, 2008 KICP Workshop | International Symposium: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: From Asteroids to Cosmology |
August 25 - 28, 2008 KICP Workshop | CMBPol Workshop: Technology Development for a CMB Probe of Inflation |
September 3 - 5, 2008 KICP Workshop | "Viewing the Universe via the World Wide Web" |
September 15, 2008 KICP Talk | Cafe Scientifique: Juan Collar, "Searching for Cosmic Dark Matter in the Sewers of Chicago" |
October 2, 2008 Lecture | Wendy Freedman, Brinson Lecture: "Astronomy in the New Millennium: New Windows on the Cosmos" |
October 4 - December 13, 2008 KICP Lecture | 68th Compton Lectures: Brian Humensky, "Stars: Their Life and Afterlife" |
October 27 - 28, 2008 KICP Workshop | The impact of high-energy astrophysics experiments on cosmological physics |
November 8, 2008 Lecture | Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, public lecture: "The View From the Center of the Universe" |
December 27 - 29, 2008 KICP Yerkes Institute | Cosmic Detectives, Yerkes Winter Institute |