January 11 - 15, 2015 WorldWide | International Conference on Quantum Gravity, Cosmology and String Theory |
January 13, 2015 Talk | Astronomy Special Seminar: Emily Levesque, University of Colorado, "Engines, Lighthouses, and Laboratories: Massive Stars Across the Cosmos" |
January 15, 2015 KICP Talk | Physics colloquium: Marcela Carena, University of Chicago, "Particle Physics after the Higgs" |
January 15 - 17, 2015 WorldWide | Workshop on Testing Gravity |
January 22, 2015 KICP Talk | <i>Physics colloquium:</i> John Carlstrom, University of Chicago, "Physics and Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background" |
January 27, 2015 Talk | Astronomy Special Seminar: George Becker, Space Telescope Science Institute, "The End of Reionization: An IGM Perspective" |
February 2 - 6, 2015 WorldWide | 2nd IAS School on Particle Physics & Cosmology and Implications for Technology |
February 3, 2015 Talk | Astronomy Special Seminar: Ryan Foley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Transient Astronomy: Dark Energy, Supernova Physics & Exotica" |
February 9, 2015 KICP Talk | All Chicago Cosmology Colloquium: Alexander Szalay, Johns Hopkins University, "Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Redshift Space Distortions" |
February 13, 2015 KICP Event | The Cabinet: Cosmos |
February 16, 2015 Talk | HEP seminar: Kerstin Perez, Haverford, "Antideutron Signatures of Dark Matter with the GAPS Experiment" |
February 17, 2015 KICP Workshop | Dark Matter Hub meeting |
February 19, 2015 Talk | Adler colloquium: Andy Howell, Las Cumbres Global Telescope/UC Santa Barbara, "Understanding Mysterious Sources of Energy in Supernovae" |
February 23, 2015 KICP Talk | Mark SubbaRao, Adler Planetarium, "The Future of the Planetarium" |
March 2 - 6, 2015 WorldWide | XVI International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes |
March 3, 2015 KICP Event | Broader Horizons: Stephen Hoover, Civis Analytics |
March 5, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Kyle Story, "Measuring the Temperature Anisotropy and Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the South Pole Telescope" |
March 5, 2015 Lecture | Kavli Prize Lecture: Michael E. Brown, California Institute of Technology, "Tales from the Outer Solar System" |
March 6, 2015 KICP Event | Astronomy Open House for Prospective Graduate Students |
March 9, 2015 KICP Event | NSF's Google Hangout with KICP |
March 17, 2015 KICP Event | Broader Horizons: Reid Sherman, "Career Phase Transition: Finding work in science policy" |
March 19, 2015 KICP Postdocs Symposium | Winter 2015 Postdocs Symposium |
March 24, 2015 KICP Workshop | American Society on Aging Workshop: "Bringing Astrophysics to Older Adults" |
April 7, 2015 KICP Event | Broader Horizons: Krista Martocci, Software Engineer @ Gro Intelligence |
April 12, 2015 KICP Lecture | Harper Lecture: Edward W. "Rocky" Kolb, "Brave New Worlds" |
April 16, 2015 KICP Event | Cosmosis Conversations: "The Artist and Scientist: Understanding Our Universe and Place Within featuring Jeremy Bolen & Juan Collar" |
April 27, 2015 KICP Event | Cosmosis Conversation: "The Artist and Scientist: Understanding Our Universe and Place Within featuring Sarah and Joseph Belknap + Jacob Bean" |
April 30, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Youngsoo Park, "Combined Probes Analysis with Galaxy Clustering and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in the Dark Energy Survey" |
May 7, 2015 KICP Lecture | Harper Lecture: Stephan Meyer, "Researching the Universe in Antarctica" |
May 18 - 20, 2015 KICP Workshop | CMB Spectral Distortion Workshop |
May 19, 2015 KICP Event | SWIP/KICP Pizza with Professors |
May 21, 2015 Talk | Adler Colloquium: Renee Hlozek, "Current Challenges in CMB Cosmology" |
May 26, 2015 KICP Talk | All Chicago Cosmology Colloquium: Carlos Frenk, Durham University, "The vicissitudes of the cold dark matter model of cosmology" |
May 28, 2015 KICP Event | World Science Festival Live Stream viewing and discussion: "To Infinity and Beyond: The Accelerating Universe" |
May 29, 2015 KICP Event | World Science Festival Salon: "Dark Energy: Measuring a Mystery" |
May 30, 2015 KICP Event | Chicago Science Fest: The Mysteries of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe |
May 30, 2015 KICP Lecture | 81st Compton Lectures: Andrew McCann, "Nature's Timepiece: The Exotic World of Pulsars" |
June 2, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Yin Li, "Cosmic Void Abundance in a Spherical Boundary Model" |
June 2, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Vinicius Miranda, "Probing Inflation with the Cosmic Microwave Background" |
June 5, 2015 KICP Postdocs Symposium | Spring 2015 Postdocs Symposium |
June 5, 2015 Talk | Alumni Weekend: Edward C. Stone, SM'59, PhD'64, "The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space" |
June 11, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Jennifer Helsby, "Clustering-based redshifts for the Dark Energy Survey" |
June 11, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Benedikt Diemer, "On the (non-)universality of halo density profiles" |
June 11, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Ke Fang, "Newborn Pulsars as Highest-Energy Cosmic Accelerators" |
June 12, 2015 KICP Workshop | Graduate Student Symposium |
June 16, 2015 KICP Talk | Adler Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Daniel Grin, "Astrophysics to older adults" |
June 17, 2015 KICP Talk | Computations in Science Seminar: Marilena Loverde, University of Chicago, "Cosmic Structure As a Probe of the History of the Universe" |
July 6 - 17, 2015 WorldWide | Tri-Institute Summer School on Elementary Particles (TRISEP-2015) |
July 13, 2015 Talk | Abigail Crites, Caltech, "The TIME-Pilot CII Intensity Mapping Experiment to Study the Epoch of Reionization" |
July 13, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Louis Abramson, "Assessing and Understanding Diversity in Galaxy Star Formation Histories" |
July 20, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Pierre Gratia, "Cosmology and Singularities in Massive Gravity" |
July 28, 2015 KICP Workshop | Putting Your Data into World Wide Telescope (WWT) |
July 28, 2015 KICP Talk | WorldWide Telescope: A Professional and Public Visualization Tool |
August 2 - 8, 2015 KICP Yerkes Institute | Mission to Mars: Engineering Design Process, Yerkes Summer Institute |
August 16 - 22, 2015 WorldWide | Rencontres du Vietnam on Cosmology 50 years after CMB discovery |
August 31, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Alan Robinson, "Dark Matter Limits from a 2L C3F8 Filled Bubble Chamber" |
September 1, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Jing Zhou, "Direct Dark Matter Detection with the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB" |
September 1 - 7, 2015 WorldWide | At the Edge of Discovery - CosmoCruise2015 |
September 3, 2015 KICP Workshop | DESUC2015: Chicagoland-based DES meeting |
September 7 - 11, 2015 WorldWide | COSMO-15 |
September 18, 2015 KICP Talk | KICP at the Council for Opportunity in Education conference |
September 23 - 25, 2015 KICP Workshop | Calibration of low energy particle detectors |
September 29, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Tyler Natoli, "A Search for Transient Sources in the First 100 deg2 of SPTpol Data" |
October 3 - December 12, 2015 Lecture | 82nd Compton Lectures: Manos Chatzopoulos, "The Cosmic Fireworks that Synthesize the Building Blocks of Life: Supernova Explosions" |
October 12 - 14, 2015 KICP Workshop | Exploring Theories of Modified Gravity |
October 16, 2015 KICP Event | Sexual Harassment discussion |
October 17, 2015 Workshop | More Than a Physicist - A 70th Birthday Symposium in Honor of Don Lamb |
October 21, 2015 KICP Event | Discussion on the Mid-Decadal review, "New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics" |
October 23, 2015 Talk | Jim Hartle, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Quantum Origin of Our Classical Universe" |
October 24, 2015 KICP Talk | Michael S. Turner, "The Realm of Mystery" |
October 30, 2015 KICP Postdocs Symposium | Fall 2015 Postdocs Symposium |
October 30, 2015 PhD Thesis Defense | Lee McCuller, "Testing a Model of Planck-Scale Quantum Geometry With Broadband Correlation of Colocated 40m Interferometers" |
November 4 - 6, 2015 Workshop | Higgs Effective Field Theories (HEFT 2015) |
November 5, 2015 Talk | Physics colloquium: Wendy Freedman, University of Chicago, "Measurement of Cosmological Parameters" |
November 10, 2015 Workshop | Midwest Cosmic Visions Meeting |
November 16, 2015 KICP Workshop | Dark Matter Hub workshop |
November 17 - 18, 2015 KICP Event | AstroChicago 123 |
December 5, 2015 Lecture | Physics with a Bang! |
December 15, 2015 KICP Workshop | Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) |
December 27 - 29, 2015 KICP Yerkes Institute | The Science of Musical Instruments, Yerkes Winter Institute |