Events, News & Highlights, 2017
Events, News & Highlights, 2017
January 6, 2017 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Sean Mills - "Exoplanets"

January 6, 2017 @ 6:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Montgomery Place		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Nan Li, "Gravitational Lensing - Einstein's Legacy"

January 7, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Gourav Khullar

January 8, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background", Andrea Bryant

January 10, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

January 12, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Adam Miller

January 13, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Dan Fabrycky - "Exoplanets"

January 14, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Nan Li - "Gravitational Lensing"

January 15, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Maya Fishbach

January 16, 2017
News		On MLK Day King College Prep Cosmology Club Explores Dark Matter
January 17, 2017 @ 10:30 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Chatham Satellite Center		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Stephan Meyer, "Relativity"

January 19, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Cosmin Deaconu - "Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Dark Matter"

January 21, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Abigail Vieregg - "CMB, Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays", Chihway Chang - "Cosmology, Weak Lensing"

January 28, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Nahee Park - "High Energy Astrophysics"

February 2, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

February 3, 2017 @ 6:30 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Nadejda Marounina, Chris Tunnell, and Chihway Chang - "Cosmology, Weak Lensing"

February 5, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

February 8, 2017
News		Deflategate: Cold Wet Footballs, Ideal Gas Laws and Accusations of Cheating
February 9, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Dan Fabrycky - "Exoplanets"

February 9, 2017 @ 6:00 PM
KICP Lecture
Location: Hyatt Regency Chicago		KICP Lecture: C2ST Public Lecture: Edward W. Kolb, "From Quarks to the Cosmos"

February 11, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Gourav Khullar

February 16, 2017 @ 6:30 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Cameron Liang - "Galaxy Formation & Evolution"

February 16, 2017 @ 9:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Akash Dixit

February 21, 2017 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Harbor Point		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Cosmin Deaconu, "A Radio on a High-Altitude Balloon in Antarctica"

February 25, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Ross Cawthon - "Cosmology, Dark Energy"

February 26, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Maya Fishbach

February 28, 2017 @ 5:30 PM
KICP Talk
Location: BSLC 109		KICP Talk: Daniel Holz, "Gravitational Waves"

February 28, 2017 @ 6:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Sulzer Regional Library		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Erik Shirokoff, "Science at the South Pole"

March 3, 2017 @ 9:00 AM
KICP Workshop
Location: ERC 5th floor		KICP Workshop: Open House: Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics

March 3, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: James Lasker

March 4, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Maya Fishbach

March 9, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

March 10, 2017 @ 3:00 PM
Talk
Location: ERC 576		Talk: Society of Women in Physics: Dr. Kawtar Hafidi, "A Personal Odyssey: From Africa to America"

March 11, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Chihway Chang - "Cosmology, Weak Lensing"

March 12, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Nicole Larsen - "Physics, Dark Matter and CMB telescope"

March 14, 2017 @ 10:30 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Andrew Long, "Demystifying Dark Matter"

March 14, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Dan Fabrycky - "Exoplanets"

March 16, 2017 @ 7:30 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Chris Tunnell, Nadejda Marounina

March 16, 2017 @ 8:30 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Akash Dixit - "Cosmology, AstroParticle, Dark Matter"

March 17, 2017 @ 6:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Montgomery Place		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Mickey McDonald, "A brief history of (the measurement of) time"

March 18, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Andrea Bryant

March 19, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background

March 24, 2017 @ 6:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Montgomery Place		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Megan Bed​ell, "​Exoplanets: Worlds Around Other Stars"

March 28, 2017 @ 6:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Sulzer Regional Library		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Sam Passaglia, "Science and Star Trek"

April 2, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Ross Cawthon - "Cosmology, Dark Energy"

April 3, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Amy Tang

April 8, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation", Daniel Dutcher - "Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope"

April 8, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Event		KICP Event: Film Screening and Discussion: "Hidden Figures"

April 9, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Gourav Khullar - "Galaxy Clusters, Gravitational Lensing, SPT, DES"

April 10, 2017 @ 4:00 PM
KICP Talk
Location: ERC 445		KICP Talk: Broader Horizons: Nicole Fields, a health physicist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

April 12, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Talk
Location: The Map Room, 1949 N. Hoyne		KICP Talk: Astronomy on Tap: Zoheyr Doctor, "100 Years in the Making: The Detection of Gravitational Waves"

April 13, 2017
News		The Event Horizon Telescope's historic quest
April 13, 2017 @ 11:30 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Renaissance Court		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Marco Raveri, "Cosmic acceleration"

April 13, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

April 15, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Chihway Chang - "Cosmology, Weak Lensing"

April 16, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Zhen Hou - "Cosmic Microwave Background "

April 17, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Talk
Location: The Map Room, 1949 N. Hoyne		KICP Talk: Cafe Scientifique: Abby Vieregg, "Turning a Continent into a Telescope"

Organizer: Randall H. Landsberg
April 18, 2017 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Harbor Point		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Maya Fi​shbach, "Gravitational Wave Astrophysics"

April 20, 2017 @ 11:30 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Renaissance Court		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Ian Wisher, "Hunting for Cosmic Rays"

April 20, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Cosmin Deaconu - "Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Dark Matter", Nadejda Marounina, Nicole Larsen - "Physics, Dark Matter and CMB telescope"

April 22, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Abigail Vieregg - "CMB, Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays", "Amy Bender - Cosmology, South Pole Telescope, Galaxy Clusters"

April 23, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

April 25, 2017 @ 6:00 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Sulzer Regional Library		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Mickey McDonald, "A brief history of (the measurement of) time"

April 25, 2017 @ 6:00 PM
Lecture
Location: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 South Michigan Ave., MacLean Ballroom		Lecture: 2016-2017 Brinson Lecture: Nergis Mavalvala, "The Warped Universe: the one hundred year quest to discover Einstein's gravitational waves"

April 27, 2017 @ 11:30 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Renaissance Court		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Stephanie Baumgart, "Seeing by hearing: echolocation across the animal kingdom"

May 1, 2017
KICP Workshop
Location: Chicago, IL		KICP Workshop: French-American Science Festival 2017

May 4, 2017 @ 11:30 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Renaissance Court		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Katie Mika, "Where did pregnancy come from?"

May 5, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Sean Mills - "Exoplanets"

May 6, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Daniel Dutcher - "Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope", Amy Bender - "Cosmology, South Pole Telescope, Galaxy Clusters"

May 7, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Gourav Khullar - "Galaxy Clusters, Gravitational Lensing, SPT, DES"

May 11, 2017 @ 11:30 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Renaissance Court		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Katherine Silliman, "Beyond Global Warming: Human Impacts on the World's Oceans"

May 14, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Remy Prechelt - "Cosmic Rays", Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

May 16, 2017 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Harbor Point		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Jason Henning, "Studying the Beginning of the Universe from the End of the Earth"

May 18, 2017 @ 11:30 AM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Renaissance Court		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Chris Tunnell, "Trying to catch Dark Matter"

May 18, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

May 18, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Cosmin Deaconu - "Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Dark Matter", Ben Farr, Nan Li - "Gravitational Lensing", Nadejda Marounina, Akash Dixit - "Cosmology, AstroParticle, Dark Matter"

May 20, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Taylor Hoyt, Abigail Vieregg - "CMB, Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays"

May 21, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Zhen Hou - "Cosmic Microwave Background"

May 23, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Cameron Liang - "Galaxy Formation & Evolution"

May 26, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation"

May 26, 2017 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Maya Fishbach

June 3, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Jason Henning - "CMB Polarization, Instrumentation "

June 4, 2017
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Daniel Dutcher - "Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope"

June 5, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Nora Shipp

June 5, 2017 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: James Lasker

June 8, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

June 10, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Amy Bender - "Cosmology, South Pole Telescope, Galaxy Clusters", Ross Cawthon - "Cosmology, Dark Energy"

June 11, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Nicole Larsen - "Physics, Dark Matter and CMB telescope"

June 12, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Taylor Hoyt

June 14, 2017
News		Space Explorers Program Evaluation and Experiments Featured at the 2017 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Meeting Los Angeles, CA
June 15, 2017 @ 8:30 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Faustin Carter - "CMB, Detector fabrication, South Pole Telescope"

June 18, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

June 20, 2017 @ 6:30 PM
KICP Life Long Learning Series
Location: Harbor Point		KICP Life Long Learning Series: Ian Wisher, "Hunting for Cosmic Rays"

June 20, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Talk
Location: Central Synagogue of Chicago, 122 S. Michigan Ave		KICP Talk: Michael Turner, "The origin of our universe: what we know for sure and the big mysteries"

June 24, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Andrea Bryant

July 3, 2017 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Nan Li, "Gravitational Lensing"

July 5, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Dan Fabrycky, "Exoplanets"

July 6, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler, "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"

July 8, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Leslie Rogers, "Exoplanets", Faustin Carter, "CMB, Detector fabrication, South Pole Telescope"

July 14, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Ben Montet, "Exoplanets/Stellar astrophysics"

July 15, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Amy Bender, "Cosmology, South Pole Telescope, Galaxy Clusters"

July 16, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover, "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

July 20, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Chris Tunnell

July 20, 2017 @ 7:30 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Yuanyuan Zhang - "Astronomy and Cosmology"; Akash Dixit - "Cosmology, AstroParticle, Dark Matter"; Cosmin Deaconu - "Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, Dark Matter"

July 22, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Abigail Vieregg - "CMB, Neutrinos, Cosmic Rays"

July 26, 2017
News		Tiny scientists mobilized to study solar eclipse
July 29, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Chihway Chang - "Cosmology, Weak Lensing", Nahee Park - "High Energy Astrophysics"

July 30, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Daniel Dutcher - "Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope"

July 30 - August 5, 2017
KICP Yerkes Institute		KICP Yerkes Institute: The Physics of Toys, Yerkes Summer Institute

August 1, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Ben Montet - "Exoplanets / Stellar astrophysics"

August 2, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
KICP Event
Location: Midway Plaisance Center, 1130 E Midway Plaisance		KICP Event: Midweek on the Midway: Escape from planet Earth

Organizers: Randall H. Landsberg, Nicole Larsen
August 5, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Amy Bender - "Cosmology, South Pole Telescope, Galaxy Clusters"; Yuanyuan Zhang - "Astronomy and Cosmology"

August 6, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Stephen Hoover - "Cosmology, Cosmic Microwave Background"

August 7, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Leslie Rogers - "Exoplanets"

August 7 - 11, 2017
KICP Summer School
Location: Chicago, IL		KICP Summer School: Summer School: CMB Detectors and Instrumentation

August 9, 2017 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Maya Fishbach

August 10, 2017 @ 2:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Dan Fabrycky - "Exoplanets"

August 13, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Nan Li - "Gravitational Lensing"

August 16, 2017
News		Eclipse reflects sun's historic power
August 17, 2017 @ 8:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Faustin Carter - "CMB, Detector fabrication, South Pole Telescope"

August 19, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Amy Lowitz

August 26, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Chihway Chang - "Cosmology, Weak Lensing"

August 31, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Astronomy Conversation
Location: Adler Planetarium		Astronomy Conversation: Rick Kessler - "Astrophysics, Dark Energy"