Events Schedule, 2008
Workshops & Events Schedule, 2008
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