2025
Northeast Illinois Severe Weather Seminar
8:00 am–12:30 pm Ramsey Auditorium, Fermilab
The National Weather Service is hosting a Severe Weather Seminar at Fermilab, featuring speakers, training, and a panel Q&A. Registration is required, and all are welcome.
Bright Horizons pre-school-focused information session
4:00–5:00 pm Bright Horizons centers: Stony Island at 5824 South Stony Island Avenue and Drexel at 5610 South Drexel Avenue
The University operates two Bright Horizons centers on campus. While Bright Horizons has programs for children from infants to five years old, they are offering a special pre-school-focused information session on Thursday, March 6, 2025 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
Picture an Astronomer Symposium
Through March 6, 2025 William Eckhardt Research Center
In March 2025, we will host a scientific symposium including female astrophysicists from diverse institutions and backgrounds. We intend this to be an opportunity to engage in a larger discussion about the state of the field for women around the globe and will spend a portion of the symposium in “hack day” mode, looking to discuss solutions to universal and near-universal challenges to the retention of female astrophysicists. An extended goal is to codify these discussions in public white papers. This symposium alone will not fix the leaky pipeline, but we hope that crowd-sourcing best practices for increasing retention will inspire the implementation of even small, but significant changes that lead to inclusion. Simultaneously, we hope that promoting these sorts of discussions will lead to the potential for larger changes with expanded engagement.
We encourage all professional astronomers/astrophysicists to participate, not just women.
Register by January 30.
Picture an Astronomer Public Talk - Anna Frebel
6:00 pm William Eckhardt Research Center - Rm 161
Picture an Astronomer, University of Chicago Women’s Board | Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Throughout February, we are hosting public talks featuring a prominent and inspiring woman in astrophysics. Each talk will be followed by a structured Q&A.
Note that separate registration is required for each talk.
Picture an Astronomer Public Talk - Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
7:00 pm Adler Planetarium (Zoom only)
Picture an Astronomer, University of Chicago Women’s Board | Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Throughout February, we are hosting public talks featuring a prominent and inspiring woman in astrophysics. Each talk will be followed by a structured Q&A.
Note that separate registration is required for each talk.
Picture an Astronomer Public Talk - Save the Date
6:00 pm William Eckhardt Research Center - Rm 161
Picture an Astronomer, University of Chicago Women’s Board | Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Throughout February, we are hosting public talks featuring a prominent and inspiring woman in astrophysics. Each talk will be followed by a structured Q&A.
Note that separate registration is required for each talk.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science Celebration
2:30–4:30 pm Eckhardt Research Center Room 161
In collaboration with GRIT & the PME GSC, the SHPE UChicago chapter is organizing an International Day of Women and Girls in Science Celebration. We invite all Latinx/Hispanic women, gender minorities, and allies to a day filled with delicious Latinx refreshments, science arts and crafts, and meaningful round table discussions.
Clear Skies, Clear Minds: Harnessing Open Research to Find Climate Solutions
8:30 am–1:30 pm The Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122
Learn about climate change and its impacts as explained in plain language, develop an understanding of climate systems engineering as a solution to climate change problems, and discover how open science can help advance climate research and education about climate change. Free and open to the public. Registration required.
John Jumper (Google DeepMind) - Bloch Lecture
3:45–5:00 pm Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120
This year’s Bloch lecture will be given by John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of Alphafold2, an AI model that predicts the structures of proteins and nanostructures.
Jumper is a University of Chicago Department of Chemistry alum (PhD’17) who worked with Prof. Karl Freed and Prof. Tobin Sosnick.
Picture an Astronomer Public Talk - Katie Mack
6:00 pm William Eckhardt Research Center - Rm 161
Picture an Astronomer, University of Chicago Women’s Board | Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Throughout February, we are hosting public talks featuring a prominent and inspiring woman in astrophysics. Each talk will be followed by a structured Q&A.
Note that separate registration is required for each talk.