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KICP postdocs symposium
23 February 2010
1:15 pm
LASR Conference
The KICP and astronomy postdocs would like to announce a new initiative. Once per quarter (summer quarter excluded), we will hold a postdoc symposium for one afternoon, during which time 8 of us will present some aspect of our current research.
The symposium is meant to be extremely informal, and we will aim to be super-clear and low-level: we want our presentations to be understandable by everyone!
Our first symposium will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 23, starting at 1:15 pm. There will be the usual coffee and cookies at 3pm, and we will end up with some pizza and soda after the last talk, around 5pm.
Our inaugural list of speakers is
Nahee Park
Benjamin Koester
Bradford Benson
Jared Mehl
Surhud More
Sheng Wang
Maria Beltran
Eric Switzer
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10th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop
14-16 June 2010
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago, and Alder Planetarium will host the 10th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop (GLCW X) from Monday June 14th to Wednesday June 16th in Chicago, IL. As is tradition, the Workshop provides a forum for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty from the Great Lakes region working on all areas of cosmology and particle-astrophysics. More senior faculty will provide useful overviews. The general structure of the workshop includes three days of workshops (6 half-day sessions), ending the evening of June 16th. The workshop's dinner banquet will be held on Monday, June 14, 2010 at the Adler Planetarium.
In keeping with the goal of encouraging the broadest possible participation from young researchers in Great Lakes institutions, the scientific program has been largely driven by the topics which participants choose to present. Please check back later for the detailed program. It is preferred that presentations at GLCW X be directly relevant to one of the following topics:
* Dark Matter (direct and indirect detection)
* Dark Energy
* Inflation
* Large Scale Structure
* Cosmic Microwave Background
* Lensing
* Galaxy Clusters
* Dark Ages
* Reionization
* Dwarf Galaxies
* Galaxy Evolution
* BAO
* Modified Gravity
* 21 cm Emission
Contributed talks will be limited to 12 minutes, plus an additional 3 minutes for questions. In addition, contributed talks will be supplemented by slightly longer (25+5 min) talks from distinguished faculty of several Great Lakes Institutions.
Talks are grouped into 1.5-2 hour sessions comprising both contributed talks by GLCW X participants and talks by invited speakers. In order to ensure compliance with the schedule, time limits will be strictly enforced, so we request that you plan accordingly. There will also be a poster session.
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 Cafe Scientifique: Tom Crawford, "Cosmic Road Trip: From Chicago to the South Pole to Edge of the Universe"
25 January 2010
7:00 pm
Map Room - 1949 North Hoyne Ave Chicago, IL
(Limited to first 50 Attendees)
By making maps of (quite literally) the farthest edge of the visible Universe, the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) is unlocking some of the deepest mysteries in science, including the nature of the strange form of mass-energy that seems to dominate the Universe and be responsible for its accelerated expansion. Join a conversation about the telescope and the science it is delivering, intertwined with a personal perspective on what it's like to travel to the most remote location on Earth to build a 269 ton telescope on top of Antarctic ice.
SPT website
Cafe Scientifique Email list
Contact E-mail: randy oddjob.uchicago.edu
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