2022
World Quantum Day with Assoc. Prof. Diana Franklin
4:00–5:00 pm Online
As part of World Quantum Day, Associate Prof. Diana Franklin, Dept. of Computer Science, will join a live webinar to discuss “What is Quantum Science and Why Should I Care?” intended for students and the general public.
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Women's History Month 2022 Panel & Reception for Students
5:00 pm Eckhardt Research Center
Women’s History Month 2022 panel & reception for students, featuring Angela Olinto, Dean of the PSD, UChicago, Teri Odom, Chair of Chemistry, Northwestern, and Ali Vanderveld, Senior Staff Data Scientist, Wayfair
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IMSI Workshop: The Mathematics of Soft Matter
Through March 4, 2022 Online
The UChicago Institute on Mathematical and Statistical Innovation is hosting the workshop The Mathematics of Soft Matter: Dynamic and Structure. This workshop will bring together mathematicians, computational and theoretical chemists and chemical engineers, and experimental scientists to identify critical topical areas that intersect mathematics and the physics and chemistry of soft matter.
MLK Reflection Station
12:00–1:00 pm Online
PSD students are invited to reflect on the campus-wide MLK Celebration keynote messages at a gathering the next day via Zoom.
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IMSI Workshop: Multiscale Microbial Communities
Through February 24, 2022 Online
The UChicago Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation is hosting the workshop Multiscale Microbial Communities: Dynamical Models, Ecology, and One Health. This conference aims to bring together experts in ecology, microbial genomics, population evolution, dynamical modeling and high throughput data science to share the current state of knowledge and catalyze new interactions across biology, computational, and mathematical sciences.
Campus MLK Celebration
6:00–7:00 pm Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
Event has been rescheduled.
Times to be confirmed.
The University of Chicago’s 32nd annual MLK Commemoration Celebration will take place on Monday, February 21, 2022 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the site of one of Dr. King’s first major speeches in Chicago. We will also be offering a livestream.
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Physics Colloquium with Cheng Chin
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall
Prof. Cheng Chin, UChicago Physics, presents the colloquium, “Quantum Simulation of Lattice Gauge Fields.”
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IMSI Workshop: Private AI
Through February 11, 2022 Online
The UChicago Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation is hosting the workshop Private AI: Machine Learning on Encrypted Data. The workshop will bring together researchers from the fields of cryptography, security, machine learning, programming languages and domain experts from biomedicine, health and finance.
Prof. Marcela Carena, "The Unseen Universe: Challenges for Theory and Experiment"
7:30–8:30 pm Online
Fermilab Arts & Lectures At Home presents Part I of How to Do Big Science —a multi-part virtual series that follows the path of an experiment from theoretical beginnings, through the design and approval process, building and data acquisition, and, finally, peer review, publication, and communication. Marcela Carena, head of the Theory Division at Fermilab, will talk about how theorists think about the Higgs boson, dark matter, and the exciting results from the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment.
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2021
Data Science Institute, Prof. Gari Clifford on Medical Machine Learning
3:00–4:00 pm Crerar 390, online
Prof. Gari Clifford, Emory University, delivers the Data Science Institute lecture, “Mythological Medical Machine Learning: Boosting the performance of a deep learning medical data classifier using realistic medical models.”