2019
A&A Colloquium: John Grunsfeld (NASA): "Hubble, Chicago, and the Search for Life in the Universe"
3:30–4:30 pm ERC 161
The Hubble Space Telescope story has been a fascinating study in public policy, engineering, ethics, and science. The Hubble is perhaps the most productive scientific instrument ever created by humans. In May 2009, a team of astronauts flew to the Hubble Space Telescope on space shuttle Atlantis. On their 13-day mission and over the course of 5 spacewalks they completed an extreme makeover of the orbiting observatory. They installed the Wide Field Camera-3, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, repaired the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, as well as a number of maintenance activities. These Hubble spacewalks are considered the most challenging and daring efforts ever of people working in space. This mission also carried a bit of the University of Chicago with it on board. Now, still going strong on orbit, the Hubble has a full complement of instruments capable of performing state-of-the-art observations from the near infra-red to the ultraviolet end of the spectrum. In this talk we will present a narrative of the adventure, and a look at what some of the scientific results may offer in the search for life beyond Earth in our Solar System.
KICP and A&A Jamboree & Fall Harvest Festival
1:00–7:00 pm ERC 401, ERC Atrium
Simpson Lecture - Alan Watson, University of Leeds
4:00–5:00 pm MCP 201
2nd Annual John A Simpson Lecture: Alan Watson, University of Leeds, “The Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays – present status and future prospects”
A&A Cookies, Coffee and Conversation
2:30–3:30 pm Hubble Lounge (ERC 501)
KICP Seminar - Carl Rodriguez, Harvard
12:00–1:00 pm ERC 401
Carl Rodriguez, Harvard, “How Do You Form a Binary Black Hole?”
KICP colloquium - Brian Nord
3:30 pm ERC 161
Brian Nord, Fermilab and UChicago, “AI In the Sky: Implications and Challenges for the use of Artificial Intelligence in Astrophysics and in Society”
Milky Way Discussion Group: Nora Shipp
2:00–3:00 pm ERC 419
Chalk Talk: Charles Steinhardt (Neils Bohr Institute/DAWN) & Evgeni Grishin (Technion)
12:00–1:00 pm Hubble Lounge
Charles Steinhardt (Niels Bohr Institute / DAWN): “Thermal Regulation and the Star-Forming Main Sequence.”
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Evgeni Grishin (Technion)
“Capturing planetesimals in gaseous disks”
Special Physics Colloquium: Jeff McMahon (Michigan)
3:30–4:30 pm Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture Hall (KPTC 106)
A&A Cookies, Coffee and Conversation
2:30–3:30 pm Hubble Lounge (ERC 501)