January 28, 2011 KICP Workshop | BruceFest: Bruce Winstein Symposium |
March 10 - 13, 2011 KICP Talk | KICP @ 2011 NSTA National Conference on Science Education "Celebrating the Joy of Science" |
March 11, 2011 KICP Postdocs Symposium | Winter 2011 Postdocs Symposium |
March 31 - April 1, 2011 KICP Workshop | Jonathan Rosner Symposium |
April 8, 2011 KICP Event | KICP open house for prospective graduate students |
April 11, 2011 Lecture | 2011 University of Chicago Brinson Lecture: Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, "From Big Bang to Biospheres" |
April 18, 2011 KICP Talk | Cafe Scientifique: Dan Hooper, "Our Dark Cosmos" |
April 20, 2011 Talk | "One Book, One Chicago": Lawrence Krauss |
May 13 - 15, 2011 KICP Workshop | Cosmological Non-Gaussianity: Observations Confront Theory Workshop |
May 14, 2011 KICP Lecture | 73th Compton Lectures: Nahee Park, "99 years of discovery: What is our current picture of cosmic rays?" |
June 1, 2011 KICP Workshop | Plaque to honor Bruce Winstein's contributions to the Fermilab |
June 2, 2011 Talk | Fermi's time capsule opening |
June 6, 2011 PhD Thesis Defense | Alison Brizius, "Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Polarization Anisotropy at 40 GHz and 90 GHz with the Q/U Imaging Experiment (QUIET)" |
June 9, 2011 KICP Lecture | Josh Frieman, "The Dark Universe" |
June 10, 2011 KICP Postdocs Symposium | Spring 2011 Postdocs Symposium |
June 20, 2011 KICP Event | Cafe Scientifique: Chris Lintott, "Why we need you to save science" |
July 14, 2011 PhD Thesis Defense | Jean-Rene Gauthier, "A comprehensive study of the cool gas content of massive dark matter halos" |
July 18, 2011 PhD Thesis Defense | Matthew Bayliss, "Broadband Photometry of 105 Giant Arcs: Redshift Distribution Constraints and Implications for Giant Arc Statistics" |
July 18, 2011 PhD Thesis Defense | Zosia Krusberg, "The phenomenology of maverick dark matter" |
July 20, 2011 PhD Thesis Defense | Cora Dvorkin, "On the Imprints of Inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background" |
July 20, 2011 PhD Thesis Defense | Megan Gralla, "Radio Sources in Galaxy Clusters" |
August 3, 2011 Talk | Dan Fabricant, CfA, "NIRMOS: Wide Field Near-IR Imaging and Spectroscopy for GMT" |
August 5, 2011 Talk | Darren DePoy, Texas A&M University, "A wide-field, multi-object, moderate-resolution optical spectrograph for the Giant Magellan Telescope" |
August 7 - 13, 2011 KICP Yerkes Institute | Detectors/Super Sensing, Yerkes Summer Institute |
August 11, 2011 Talk | Andrew Szentgyorgyi, CfA, "G-CLEF: A Versatile, Optical Echelle Spectrograph for the GMT" |
August 28 - September 2, 2011 KICP Workshop | 19th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions |
August 31, 2011 Talk | Sundeep Das, University of California (Berkeley) , "Probing Cosmology and Particle Physics with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope" |
September 20, 2011 Talk | Peter McGregor, Australian National University, "The GMT Integral-Field Spectrograph (GMTIFS): What It Can Do for You!" |
September 26, 2011 KICP Workshop | PFC3 Collaboration Meeting |
October 1 - December 10, 2011 KICP Lecture | 74th Compton Lectures: Mark Wyman, "Before the beginning to after the end" |
October 20, 2011 PhD Thesis Defense | Florin Ionita: "A Study of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Composition and Hadronic Interactions with Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory" |
October 20, 2011 KICP Talk | KICP at GLPA Conference: Randall H. Landsberg, Tom Plagge, Mark SubbaRao, Fredrick W. High, "The Hunt for Dark Energy" |
October 23, 2011 KICP Lecture | Chicago Humanities Festival: Rocky Kolb, "Telescopes: The Long Lens of History" |
October 31, 2011 KICP Event | John Mather, NASA, "James Webb Space Telescope: Science Opportunities and Mission Progress" |
November 1, 2011 Lecture | Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, "Energy and the Accelerating Universe: Einstein's Blunder Undone" |
November 1, 2011 Lecture | 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 7, 2011 KICP Talk | EFI Colloquium: Andrey Kravtsov, "The chemistry of galaxy formation" |
November 12, 2011 Talk | Play "Creation's Birthday," written by Prof. Hasan Padamsee, Cornell University |
November 21, 2011 Talk | Cafe Scientifique: Liz Moyer, "A Reality Check on Alternative Energy" |
November 29, 2011 Workshop | Science in Action: How Scientists Can Affect Policy Decisions |
December 3, 2011 Lecture | Ask a Scientist & Physics with a Bang |
December 8, 2011 KICP Postdocs Symposium | Fall 2011 Postdocs Symposium |
December 14, 2011 KICP Event | Astronomy Conversation @ Adler Planetarium |
December 27 - 29, 2011 KICP Yerkes Institute | Up!: Thrust, Buoyancy, and Drag, Yerkes Winter Institute |