Arthur H. Compton Lecture Series | The Astroparticle Lens: Using Particles from Space to Understand Our World
11:00 am–12:00 pm Kersten Physics Teaching Center, room 106
Lecture series by Grainger Fellow Keith McBride will explore how these “messengers across the Universe” have evolved into a high-precision interdisciplinary toolkit with vast potential to enable scientific discoveries. This event is free and for the public. Attend in person or watch the livestream.
Arthur H. Compton Lecture Series | The Astroparticle Lens: Using Particles from Space to Understand Our World
11:00 am–12:00 pm Kersten Physics Teaching Center, room 106
Lecture series by Grainger Fellow Keith McBride will explore how these “messengers across the Universe” have evolved into a high-precision interdisciplinary toolkit with vast potential to enable scientific discoveries. This event is free and for the public. Attend in person or watch the livestream.
Frontiers in Climate Systems Engineering
Through May 19, 2026 David Rubenstein Forum
Join us May 18-19, 2026 for a two-day event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and the Climate Systems Engineering initiative to advance the understanding of climate engineering through rigorous analysis and open debate.
Brinson Lecture - Roger Blandford
6:00–7:30 pm Adler Planetarium
Roger Blandford, “The Extreme Universe”
The universe is full of black holes, from which light cannot escape and neutron stars, as heavy as the sun yet smaller than Chicago. Remarkable astronomical discoveries have revealed the varied ways in which they behave. They expand the physics of the laboratory and everyday life into new territory characterized by extremes of energy, density, temperature, magnetism and so on. In this lecture I will attempt to explain, in simple language, what we have learned from astronomical observations, and how the study of black holes and neutron stars expands our appreciation of physical science.
Free tickets are now available. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Jointly funded UChicago-Fermilab postdoc and graduate student applications due
All day Online application
Applications for jointly funded UChicago-Fermilab postdocs and graduate students are due today.