April 6, 2017

The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL, USA

The Chicago Council on Science and Technology and the Institute for Advanced Study Present “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute for Advanced Study Director and Leon Levy Professor, will discuss the re-publication of “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge” (Princeton University Press), which features IAS Founding Director Abraham Flexner’s classic essay of the same title, first published in Harper’s magazine in 1939.  Read more…

March 30, 2017

Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Center
400 South State Street, Chicago, IL, USA

Chicago Council on Science and Technology and the Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Center present

Just in time for opening day!

Dr Alan Nathan spent a career doing experimental nuclear physics, where he studied the high-speed collisions of subatomic particles. Read more…

March 22, 2017

Perlstein Hall Auditorium, Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 33rd Street, Chicago, IL, USA

Geological storage of carbon dioxide has the potential for significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

While the fundamental scientific underpinnings of CO2 storage build on a century-long exploration of the physics of multiphase flow in porous media, there are aspects that remain unexplored and warrant further investigation. Read more…

March 7, 2017

Pint Chicago
1547 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA

How do fish and other marine species find forever homes? How long do they remain drifters?

Adults spawn and release eggs that hatch into larvae that temporarily join the drifting communities of the open ocean, plankton. What happens from there is not easy to study–larvae are tiny; almost invisible, and the ocean is huge. Read more…

February 9, 2017

Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL, USA

QM2017 Public Lecture in collaboration with C2ST

For the first second of time, long before the emergence of planets, stars, or galaxies, our universe was a hot primordial soup of “elementary” particles like quarks.  Encoded in this formless, shapeless quark soup were the imprints of events from an even earlier epoch—the very beginning of the universe.  Read more…

February 6, 2017

Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
250 East 111th Street, Chicago, IL, USA

Opening Day may seem far in the distant future, but that doesn’t stop us from counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report for the spring season, and for the official start of spring training.

But there is no better way to celebrate the Cubs’ World Series than taking a closer look at what happens on the ballfield: Why does Jon Lester’s curveball curve? How did David Ross handle all those fastballs? And what’s the quickest way for Dexter Fowler to run around the bases? Read more…