2021
GRADFair 2021
12:00–4:00 pm online
GRADFair is the annual fall career fair exclusively for graduate students, postdocs, and recent graduate alumni. Attendees can find internships and full-time jobs, network with employers, and learn about future opportunities. This year’s event will be held virtually on Handshake. Register by noon on Aug. 24.
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A fireside chat with Dean Angela Olinto
12:00–1:00 pm online
Join UChicago Global and the Consulate General of Brazil in Chicago for the second webinar in a series featuring conversations between leading scholars from the University of Chicago and Brazil on the impact of international collaboration on advances in science.
In this conversation, Angela Olinto, Dean of the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago, and João R.T. de Mello Neto, Professor of Physics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, will discuss Angela’s research in astrophysics and cosmology, her personal journey from Brazil to the US, and her leadership journey as an academic, a woman in science, and a strong proponent of diversity and inclusion at UChicago.
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Celebration of Life for R. Stephen Berry
11:00 am–12:00 pm Online
Please join us in remembering and celebrating the life of R. Stephen Berry.
PSD Convocation Ceremony
7:00–9:00 pm Online
The 2021 PSD Convocation Ceremony will be available to view online beginning at 7 pm CST on June 9
PSD Staff Summer Coffee Hour
9:00–10:00 am Online
All PSD Staff are invited to a summer coffee hour on Zoom, Wednesday, June 9, 9:00-10:00 AM
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Ethan Silva: Materializing Visions
5:30–6:30 pm Online
Physics & Contemporary Architecture Guest Lecture Series Spring ‘21
The University of Chicago Physics Profs. Sid Nagel and Heinrich Jaeger invite the public to the 8 lectures of the course PHSC11800 Physics & Contemporary Architecture, featuring a top flight of architects and structural engineers discussing contemporary structures and their relationship to physics. All lectures take place on Thursdays at 5:30pm CST and they will be presented online as live video conferences.
Jeanne Gang: Strength in the Fluid, Soft, and Yielding
5:30–6:30 pm Online
Physics & Contemporary Architecture Guest Lecture Series Spring ‘21
The University of Chicago Physics Profs. Sid Nagel and Heinrich Jaeger invite the public to the 8 lectures of the course PHSC11800 Physics & Contemporary Architecture, featuring a top flight of architects and structural engineers discussing contemporary structures and their relationship to physics. All lectures take place on Thursdays at 5:30pm CST and they will be presented online as live video conferences.
Shaw Prize Lecture: Alexander Beilinson
6:00–7:00 am Online
A lecture in honor of The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2020, awarded in equal shares to Alexander Beilinson, David and Mary Winton Green University Professor at the University of Chicago, USA, and David Kazhdan, Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, for their huge influence on and profound contributions to representation theory, as well as many other areas of mathematics. Prof. Beilinson prerecorded the lecture, which will be on Zoom and YouTube.
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Cross-cutting Theories in Biology Symposium
8:00–9:30 am Online
On May 17-18, 2021, the University of Chicago will host a mini-symposium to bring together our faculty and two colleagues from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris for talks and discussions about new ideas and theories in biology. Prof. Aleksandra Walczak and Prof. Thierry Mora will join us from the Ecole Normale Superieure. They will each give talks on the interactions between COVID-19 and the immune system, followed by additional presentations by UChicago faculty about more cross-cutting ideas in biology.
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Cross-cutting Theories in Biology Symposium
8:00–9:30 am Online
On May 17-18, 2021, the University of Chicago will host a mini-symposium to bring together our faculty and two colleagues from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris for talks and discussions about new ideas and theories in biology. Prof. Aleksandra Walczak and Prof. Thierry Mora will join us from the Ecole Normale Superieure. They will each give talks on the interactions between COVID-19 and the immune system, followed by additional presentations by UChicago faculty about more cross-cutting ideas in biology.