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 South Pole Telescope Exploratorium Web cast
18 January 2008
10:00 am
Dec 7, 2007 10:00 CST
Dec 21, 2007 10:00 CST
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 CST
South Pole Telescope project collaborates with the Exploratorium to bring Live Web-Casts from the South Pole.
Dec 21, 2007: Join us as we talk with scientists working on the South Pole Telescope. In today's program, we'll learn about the various projects and teams of people on the project, how they work together, and how they analyze the data they receive.
Jan 18, 2008: In our final talk with the South Pole Telescope staff, we'll learn about data collection. We'll focus on the receiver, a very precise instrument that is a sensitive, state-of-the-art data collector with a thousand "eyes" pointed to the distant universe. We'll also meet the scientists who will be wintering over at the South Pole for eight cold, dark months.
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 International Symposium: "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: From Asteroids to Cosmology"
15-18 August 2008
Merchandise Mart Conference Center (2nd Floor), 350 West Mart Center Drive, Chicago IL 60654
Over eight years of observations, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I, 2000 - 2005; SDSS-II, 2005 - 2008) has transformed many fields of astronomy, from the identification of asteroid families to the discovery of the most distant quasars, from substructure in the outer Galaxy to the large-scale structure of the Universe.
This broad-ranging symposium will review progress and prospects in these fields, including observational contributions from the SDSS and from other major surveys, theoretical interpretation of the results, and plans for the next generation of large astronomical survey projects. The program will include invited reviews, contributed talks, posters, and a symposium banquet on a cruise boat on Lake Michigan.
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Josh Frieman, Mapping the Heavens: The Universe Revealed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
12 January 2008
4:30 pm
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
In this full-dome multimedia presentation, Dr. Frieman will describe and fly us through the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the most ambitious 3D map of the Universe ever constructed. This flight will let us explore this vast survey that is shaping our understanding of how the Universe has evolved from its earliest moments.
Part of Festival of Maps: Chicago
Free with museum admission (Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum).
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Cafe Scientifique: Melina Hale, "Bombs and Brains: Examining Traumatic Brain Injury from the War in Iraq"
10 March 2008
7:00 pm
The Map Room - 1949 North Hoyne Ave Chicago, IL
Closed brain injury -- damage to the brain without skull penetration -- is a characteristic injury of the war in Iraq. It is much more prevalent then in previous wars due in part to increased survivability of major injuries to the body and to increased exposure to blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Providing care and treatment for returning service men and women who have sustained such injuries is a major ongoing concern facing the United States.
Come for a discussion of issues surrounding traumatic brain injuries such as those sustained in the Iraq war, research examining the diverse effects of blasts on the brain, and current and potential future directions for prevention and treatment of head injury.
For more info see:
Research at Chicago video on Dr. Hale "Circuit-Breaking: The Startle Response and Neuromotor Function"
March 10-16 is Brain awareness week!
Contact E-mail: randy kicp.uchicago.edu
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Randall Landsberg, Catching Cosmic Monsters: Powerful & Rare
27 March 2008
2:00 pm
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 259B
From brains to the Big Bang, take a crash course in forefront science with the NSF Physics Frontier Centers, including hands-on activities and summer opportunities.
Contact E-mail: randykicp.uchicago.edu
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KICP open house for prospective graduate students
4 April 2008
1:00 pm
LASR Conference Room 152
1:00 - 1:30 PM Reception for Astronomy & Physics students with KICP faculty, fellows and students
1:30 - 2:00 PM Presentations by Stephan Meyer and Andrey Kravtsov
2:00 - 3:00 PM Lab Tours or Theory Group:
* Collar lab tour (Juan Collar)
* CMB lab tour (Clarence Chang, Tom Crawford, Jeff McMahon)
* meet with individual members of theory group
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Postal Service pays tribute to astronomer Edwin Hubble
30 April 2008
3:00 pm
Research Institutes building, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Room 480
Chicago unveiling of commemorative stamp honoring University of Chicago alumnus Edwin Hubble. The event is open to the public.
Edward "Rocky" Kolb, Professor and Chairman, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
James Mruk, Manager, Public Affairs & Communications, Great Lakes Area of the United States Postal Service
In March, the U.S. Postal Service acknowledged some of the most impressive scientific achievements of the 20th century with the issue of its second series of American Scientists stamps. Astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), alumnus of the University of Chicago (S.B., 1910, Ph.D., 1917), played a pivotal role in deciphering the vast and complex nature of the universe. His meticulous studies of spiral nebulae proved the existence of galaxies other than our own Milky Way, paving the way for a revolutionary new understanding that the cosmos contains myriad separate galaxies or "island universes."
The local unveiling of the Edwin Hubble stamp will take place before the weekly colloquium of the University's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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67th Compton Lectures: Kathryn Schaffer, "Seeing and Believing: Detection, Measurement, and Inference in Experimental Physics"
17 May 2008
11:00 am
Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellis Avenue, Room 106, Chicago, IL 60637
April 5, 2008 11:00 am
April 12, 2008 11:00 am
April 19, 2008 11:00 am
April 26, 2008 11:00 am
May 3, 2008 11:00 am
May 10, 2008 11:00 am
May 17, 2008 11:00 am
May 31, 2008 11:00 am
June 7, 2008 11:00 am
June 14, 2008 11:00 am
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