2024
Broader Impacts Fair 2024
12:00–2:00 pm ERC Atrium
All students, faculty, and postdocs are invited to the 2024 Broader Impacts Fair. “Broader Impacts” refers to the ways in which research in mathematics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences can have a broad impact on society through education, policy, and economic development. Come and meet representatives from over 20 organizations who will describe how you can get involved in volunteer opportunities to advance broader impact goals.
Third Annual South Side Science Festival
11:00 am–6:00 pm University of Chicago Hyde Park Campus, Science Quads between S. Ellis Ave. and S. Drexel Ave.
South Side Science Festival
Where Science is For Everyone
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Compton Lecture Series - Understanding the Building Blocks of Nature with Particle Collisions and AI
11:00 am KPTC Room 106
Anthony Badea
Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
This lecture series will discuss the forefront of research in particle physics, focusing on accelerator-based experiments to understand the conditions, objectives, and technology needs. In particular, the series will highlight how new computing hardware and artificial intelligence (AI) are opening up novel experimental programs.
This event is free and for the public.
Introduction To Solar Geoengineering and Governance Challenges with Profs. Barbara Koremenos and Edward A. Parson
12:00–2:00 pm University Law School Faculty Lounge
After briefly introducing Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), Koremenos and Parson will outline its major governance opportunities and challenges, including the possibilities and incentives for unilateral or self-interested use, SAI’s potential to trigger or exacerbate geopolitical conflict, the current political and rhetorical landscape, and the potential interactions of SAI and its governance with other elements of climate-change response and broader global governance.
AI+Science Summer School 2024
Through July 19, 2024 Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation
This year’s speakers will focus on applications of AI and Machine learning in core areas of domain science – genetics and physics, materials and chemistry, energy sciences, climate sciences and bioinformatics. The goal of the program is to introduce a new generation of diverse interdisciplinary graduate students and researchers to the emerging field of AI + Science.
Brinson Lecture 2023-2024: Gerry Gilmore (University of Cambridge)
6:00–7:30 pm Venue SIX10
Gerry Gilmore, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Philosophy
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
“The Dynamic Milky Way – Seeing our Galaxy Evolve”
109th Annual Howard T. Ricketts Lecture--Neuroscientist Charles Zuker
4:00 pm Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 109
Charles Zuker, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Neuroscience at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons will give the 2024 Howard Taylor Ricketts Lecture for the Biological Sciences Division on Tuesday, May 21st at 4pm in the Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 109. Zuker is known for his studies on how the brain represents our sensory experiences and how it transforms reception into perception. All university faculty, students, and staff are welcome to attend.
DSI Research Day
9:00 am–6:00 pm William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 161
Annual DSI Research Day features cutting-edge research talks from faculty labs, DSI research initiatives, and postdoctoral fellows.
Compton Lecture Series - How Astrophysicists See the Universe
11:00 am KPTC Room 106
Christoph Welling, UChicago
KICP Fellow
This is a lecture series about the different telescopes astrophysicists use and how they are used to learn about the universe.
It is free and open to the public.
The Chicago Center for the Origins of Life Symposium
9:30 am–3:45 pm Ida Noyes Hall
The Chicago Center for the Origins of Life supports multidisciplinary research focused on understanding how life developed on Earth and the potential for life elsewhere. Please join us for a symposium featuring distinguished speakers and discussion.