Events Schedule, 2010
Workshops & Events Schedule, 2010
January 25, 2010
KICP Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Tom Crawford, "Cosmic Road Trip: From Chicago to the South Pole to Edge of the Universe"
February 22, 2010
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Winter 2010 Postdocs Symposium
March 18, 2010
PhD Thesis Defense
Valentin Kostov, "Average luminosity distance in inhomogeneous universes"
March 31, 2010
PhD Thesis Defense
Stephanie A. Wissel, "Observations of Direct Cerenkov Light in Ground-Based Telescopes and the Flux of Iron Nuclei at TeV Energies"
April 19, 2010
KICP Lecture
SAIC Lecture: Juan Collar, "Searching for Dark Matter in the Sewers of Chicago"
April 28 - 30, 2010
KICP Workshop
Exploring the Universe Bit by Bit
May 10, 2010
KICP Lecture
Dean Lecture: Angela Olinto, "Do Black Holes Play Ball? - Cosmic Messengers of the High Energy Universe "
May 25, 2010
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Spring 2010 Postdocs Symposium
June 1, 2010
PhD Thesis Defense
Felipe Marin, "The large-scale three-point correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies"
June 13, 2010
KICP Workshop
Beyond Beauty: A Panel Discussion on the Nature and Meaning of Images in Astrophysics
June 14 - 16, 2010
KICP Workshop
10th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop
June 17, 2010
KICP Workshop
KICP 10th Year Reunion
June 21, 2010
PhD Thesis Defense
Colin Bischoff, "Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Anisotropy at 40 GHz with QUIET"
August 7 - 13, 2010
KICP Yerkes Institute
Simple Machines, Yerkes Summer Institute
August 12, 2010
Talk
Patrick McCarthy, Director of the Giant Magellan Telescope: "The Giant Magellan Telescope"
September 24 - 26, 2010
KICP Cosmology Course
"The Dark Universe", Cosmology Short Course
October 4 - 8, 2010
KICP Workshop
Microwave Detection of Air Showers Workshop
October 6, 2010
KICP Workshop
Midwest Town Hall meeting on New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
October 11, 2010
Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Sian Beilock, "Why Do We Choke?"
October 15, 2010
KICP Lecture
Charles Steidel, 2010 Gruber Prize winner: "Observations of Structure Formation in the Adolescent Universe"
October 15 - 17, 2010
KICP Workshop
Chandrasekhar Centennial Symposium
October 21, 2010
KICP Talk
GLPA Conference: Kumiko Kotera, Maria Monasor, and Benjamin Rouille d'Orfeuil, "Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays: A Few Grams of Matter in a Bright World"
October 21, 2010
KICP Talk
GLPA Conference: Randy Landsberg and Mark SubbaRao, "Cutting Edge Research Invades the Dome"
October 28, 2010
KICP Lecture
SAIC Lecture: Andrey Kravtsov, "Modeling the Universe"
November 1, 2010
PhD Thesis Defense
Ryan Keisler, "Measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy with the South Pole Telescope"
November 18, 2010
KICP Lecture
SAIC Lecture: Mike Gladders, "Cosmic Telescopes: Gravitational Lensing by The Most Massive Structures in the Universe"
November 18 - 19, 2010
KICP Workshop
Simon P. Swordy Memorial
December 1, 2010
PhD Thesis Defense
Matthew Szydagis, "Dark Matter Limits from a 15 kg Windowless Bubble Chamber"
December 4, 2010
KICP Talk
Physics with a Bang! & Ask a Scientist
December 5, 2010
KICP Lecture
Michael Turner, Works of the Mind Lectures: How Many Universes?
December 6, 2010
KICP Lecture
Benjamin Dean Lecture: Josh Frieman, "The Dark Universe and the Origin of Structure"
December 9, 2010
KICP Talk
Juan Collar, Rocky Kolb, and Carlos Wagner, "Chicago's Dark Matter: WIMPs of the Underground"
December 10, 2010
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Fall 2010 Postdocs Symposium
December 27 - 29, 2010
KICP Yerkes Institute
Surface Area, Yerkes Winter Institute