Events Schedule, 2014
Workshops & Events Schedule, 2014
January 9, 2014
Talk
Physics colloquium: Kurt Hinterbichler, Perimeter Institute, "Massive gravitons, the cosmological constant and new directions in gravity"
January 13 - 17, 2014
WorldWide
Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation - Cosmology on the Beach
January 22, 2014
Talk
Computations in Science Seminar: Juan Collar, University of Chicago, "Uncertainties in dark matter searches"
January 23, 2014
Talk
Physics colloquium: Vyacheslav Turyshev, California Institute of Technology,"Testing Fundamental Gravitation in Space: Recent Progress and Possible Future Directions"
February 5, 2014
Talk
Savdeep S. Sethi, University of Chicago, "Domain Walls and Gravity"
February 14, 2014
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Winter 2014 Postdocs Symposium
February 20, 2014
KICP Talk
Adler After Dark: Bradford Benson, "Unveiling the Dark Universe with the South Pole Telescope"
February 26 - 28, 2014
WorldWide
Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe
March 6, 2014
KICP Talk
Physics colloquium: Juan Collar, "Present status of direct searches for dark matter"
March 8, 2014
KICP Event
Mi Galaxia es Su Galaxia - My Galaxy is Your Galaxy
March 10, 2014
KICP Event
Statistics Colloquium: Josh Frieman, Fermilab and the University of Chicago, "Probing Cosmic Acceleration with the Dark Energy Survey: Statistical Challenges and Big Data in Cosmology"
March 19, 2014
KICP Event
BICEP2 extravaganza
March 22 - 29, 2014
WorldWide
Rencontres de Moriond: Cosmology 2014
March 24 - 27, 2014
Workshop
Joint DES-LSST Workshop
April 3, 2014
KICP Workshop
Inflation MA meeting
April 5 - June 7, 2014
KICP Lecture
79th Compton Lectures: Elise Jennings, "Cosmic Cartography - Exploring an Expanding Universe"
April 7, 2014
KICP Event
Broader Horizons: Kathryn Schaffer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
April 18, 2014
KICP Event
Kavli Foundation Webcast: Secrets of the Universe's First Light
April 24, 2014
Talk
Physics colloquium: Adam Riess, "The Hubble Constant and Dark Energy from Supernovae, Cepheids and Parallax"
April 25, 2014
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Spring 2014 Postdocs Symposium
May 15 - 16, 2014
KICP Workshop
Workshop on CosmoSIS
May 15 - 17, 2014
KICP Workshop
DES Supernova workshop
May 26 - 29, 2014
WorldWide
IAU Symposium 306 on Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology (SCCC21)
May 29, 2014
KICP Workshop
Announcement of the 2014 Kavli Prize Laureates
June 9 - 11, 2014
KICP Workshop
High-Energy Messengers: Connecting the Non-Thermal Extragalactic Backgrounds
June 12, 2014
Talk
Flash Center Special Seminar: Christian Ott, Caltech, "New Aspects of Core-Collapse Supernova Theory"
June 12, 2014
KICP Event
519th UChicago Convocation: honoring Wendy L. Freedman
June 16 - 27, 2014
KICP Summer School
Summer School on Education and Outreach
June 18 - 20, 2014
WorldWide
Cross-correlation in the high redshift sky
June 23 - 28, 2014
WorldWide
IAU Symposium 308: The Zeldovich Universe: Genesis and Growth of the Cosmic Web
June 23 - 28, 2014
WorldWide
Astroparticle Physics: a joint IDM/TeVPA conference
July 7 - 11, 2014
WorldWide
Nuclei in the Cosmos 2014
July 10, 2014
Talk
Computations in Science Seminar: Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute, "On Quantum Tunneling"
July 18, 2014
PhD Thesis Defense
Eric Baxter, "Measuring Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Galaxy Clusters"
July 21 - 26, 2014
WorldWide
Mathematica Summer School on Theoretical Physics
July 28 - August 1, 2014
WorldWide
Characterizing Planetary Systems Across the HR Diagram
August 3 - 9, 2014
WorldWide
2014 CARMA Summer School
August 4 - 7, 2014
WorldWide
Transformational Science in the ALMA Era: Multi-Wavelength Studies of Galaxy Evolution
August 4 - 15, 2014
WorldWide
Summer School on Cosmology
August 4 - 15, 2014
WorldWide
SLAC Summery Institute: Shining Light on Dark Matter
August 10 - 16, 2014
KICP Yerkes Institute
Renewable Energy: Back to the Sun, Yerkes Summer Institute
August 22 - 24, 2014
KICP Workshop
Status and Future of Inflationary Theory
August 25 - 29, 2014
KICP Workshop
COSMO-2014: International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology
September 15 - 19, 2014
KICP Workshop
International conference: "Type Ia Supernovae: progenitors, explosions, and cosmology"
September 19, 2014
KICP Talk
Cinema Slapdown Round 53: Gravity
September 21 - 23, 2014
KICP Cosmology Course
"Evolving Universe", Short Course for Museum & Planetarium Staff
September 22 - October 3, 2014
WorldWide
Gran Sasso Summer Institute 2014 - Hands-On Experimental Underground Physics at LNGS
September 24, 2014
Workshop
Workshop: "Structuring Your Scientific Paper"
September 29, 2014
KICP Talk
<i>Special seminar:</i> BICEP2/B-Mode update
September 29, 2014
KICP Event
KICP Welcome Event and Jamboree
October 4 - December 13, 2014
KICP Lecture
80th Compton Lectures: Tim Linden, "Shining Light on the Dark Side of the Universe"
October 8, 2014
PhD Thesis Defense
Nicole Fields, "CosI: Development of a Low Threshold Detector for the Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering"
October 30, 2014
KICP Workshop
2014 KICP GLPA Workshop: Swirls in the Sky the Science Behind the Headlines: BICEP2, B-modes and Observing from the South Pole
November 5, 2014
Lecture
2014 Brinson Lecture: Victoria M. Kaspi, "Neutron Stars, a Cosmic Gift"
November 6, 2014
Talk
Physics colloquium: Victoria M. Kaspi, McGill University, "The Hunt for Millisecond Pulsars"
November 11, 2014
PhD Thesis Defense
Alan Zablocki, "Constraining Neutrinos and Dark Energy with the Angular Clustering of Galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey"
November 17 - 19, 2014
WorldWide
Magnetic fields from the sun to black holes In memory of Jean Heyvaerts
November 18, 2014
KICP Event
Broader Horizons: Ali Vanderveld, Data Scientist at Groupon
December 5, 2014
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Fall 2014 Postdocs Symposium
December 6, 2014
Lecture
Physics with a Bang! Holiday Lecture and Open House
December 9, 2014
Talk
Astronomy Special Seminar: Blakesley Burkhart, Harvard University, "New Frontiers of Magnetized Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium"
December 27 - 29, 2014
KICP Yerkes Institute
Robotics, Telescopes and S.T.E.A.M., Yerkes Winter Institute