Events Schedule, 2017
Workshops & Events Schedule, 2017
January 13, 2017
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Winter 2017 Postdocs Symposium
January 16, 2017
KICP Event
On MLK Day King College Prep Cosmology Club Explores Dark Matter
January 25 - 27, 2017
KICP Workshop
Towards a kg-size dark matter detector with CCDs
February 1, 2017
KICP Talk
Computations in Science Seminar: Joshua A Frieman, "The Dark Energy Survey"
February 9, 2017
KICP Lecture
C2ST Public Lecture: Edward W. Kolb, "From Quarks to the Cosmos"
February 28, 2017
KICP Talk
Daniel Holz, "Gravitational Waves"
March 3, 2017
KICP Workshop
Open House: Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
March 10, 2017
Talk
Society of Women in Physics: Dr. Kawtar Hafidi, "A Personal Odyssey: From Africa to America"
March 29, 2017
KICP Talk
Rocky Kolb and Michael Turner: "How Fermilab changed the course of cosmology"
April 5, 2017
KICP Workshop
LSST DESC Hack Week
April 8, 2017
KICP Event
Film Screening and Discussion: "Hidden Figures"
April 10, 2017
KICP Talk
Broader Horizons: Nicole Fields, a health physicist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
April 12, 2017
KICP Talk
Astronomy on Tap: Zoheyr Doctor, "100 Years in the Making: The Detection of Gravitational Waves"
April 17, 2017
KICP Talk
Cafe Scientifique: Abby Vieregg, "Turning a Continent into a Telescope"
April 24, 2017
Talk
EFI colloquium: Adrienne Kolb, "Tunnel Visions: The History of the Superconducting Super Collider"
April 25, 2017
Lecture
2016-2017 Brinson Lecture: Nergis Mavalvala, "The Warped Universe: the one hundred year quest to discover Einstein's gravitational waves"
April 27, 2017
KICP Workshop
POEMMA meeting
May 1, 2017
KICP Workshop
French-American Science Festival 2017
May 3, 2017
KICP Talk
Computations in Science Seminar: Daniel Scolnic, "Measuring the size of the Universe with Standard Candles"
May 25, 2017
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Spring 2017 Postdocs Symposium
May 30, 2017
Event
NASA's Solar Probe mission discussion
May 31, 2017
KICP Event
Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, "NASA Science Missions"
June 9, 2017
PhD Thesis Defense
Michael Fedderke, "Studies in Higgs physics, particle dark matter and early universe"
June 12, 2017
PhD Thesis Defense
Hsin-Yu Chen, "Multi-messenger Astronomy with Advanced LIGO-Virgo"
June 12 - 16, 2017
KICP Workshop
DES Collaboration Meeting
June 19, 2017
PhD Thesis Defense
Chen He Heinrich, "Lensing Bias to CMB Polarization Measurements of Compensated Isocurvature Perturbations"
June 19 - 24, 2017
KICP Workshop
JEM-EUSO Collaboration Meeting
June 20, 2017
KICP Talk
Michael Turner, "The origin of our universe: what we know for sure and the big mysteries"
July 21, 2017
PhD Thesis Defense
Laura M Mocanu, "Measuring the cosmic microwave background gravitational lensing potential and its power spectrum with SPTpol"
July 24, 2017
PhD Thesis Defense
Alessandro Manzotti, "Unveiling the early Universe: delensing the Cosmic Microwave Background with galaxy surveys"
July 30 - August 5, 2017
KICP Yerkes Institute
The Physics of Toys, Yerkes Summer Institute
August 2, 2017
KICP Event
Midweek on the Midway: Escape from planet Earth
August 7 - 11, 2017
KICP Summer School
Summer School: CMB Detectors and Instrumentation
September 7 - 8, 2017
KICP Event
RosnerFest - a 70th birthday celebration for Robert Rosner
September 26, 2017
KICP Event
KICP Jamboree
October 3, 2017
PhD Thesis Defense
Michael Florian, "Measurements of Morphology in Strongly Lensed Galaxies in the Image Plane"
October 4, 2017
KICP Event
Round table discussion with artist Tomas Saraceno
October 16, 2017
PhD Thesis Defense
Bjorn Scholz, "First Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering"
October 16, 2017
KICP Event
Special KICP/EFI/Physics/A&A Colloquium and Reception
October 17, 2017
KICP Event
Public Lectures & Open Discussion: Gravitational Waves & Transient Astronomy
October 20, 2017
KICP Postdocs Symposium
Fall 2017 Postdocs Symposium
October 31, 2017
KICP Event
Symposium: Celebrating 50 years of Fermilab-UChicago Collaboration
November 16, 2017
KICP Talk
Broader Horizons: Andrew Smith, a senior scientist at Exponent
December 9, 2017
Event
Physics with a BANG
December 27 - 29, 2017
KICP Yerkes Institute
Demystifying everyday electronics, Yerkes Winter Institute