Through March 6, 2021
2021 Graduate Open House
The University of Chicago Physics Department will hold the 2021 Prospective Graduate Student Open House on Friday, March 5th, 2021. This year, due to pandemic, the Open House will have a virtual format.
The basic schedule is below. For all details and other information, check out the open house website.
Thursday, March 4, 2021
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm CST: Physics Colloquium
- Speaker: Anette (Peko) Hosoi, Professor at MIT, Ph.D. The University of Chicago
Friday, March 5, 2021
- 9:30am - 10:10am CST: Welcome and Introduction by Physics Chair Young-Kee Kim
- 10:10am - 10:15am CST: Welcome by Director of Graduate Studies Zosia Krusberg •
- 10:15am - 10:45am CST: Six Concurrent Research Overviews
- Particle Physics Experiment, Dark Matter, and Accelerator Physics
- Hard Condensed Matter Theory
- Particle Theory and General Relativity
- Soft Matter Physics and Biophysics
- AMO, Hard Condensed Matter Exp. and Quantum Physics
- Astro Particle Physics and Cosmology
- 10:45am - 11:00am CST: Break
- 11:00am - 1:00pm CST: one-on-one faculty meetings / graduate student meetings
- 1:00pm - 1:30pm CST: Break
- 1:30pm - 4:00pm CST: one-on-one faculty meetings / graduate student meetings
- 4:00pm - 4:30pm CST: Final Remarks by Physics Chair Young-Kee Kim
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Optional Events with Associations:
- 9:00 am - 10:00am CST: Grad Influences Mentoring Program
- 10:00am - 11:00am CST: UChicago Physics Working Group on Anti-Racism
- 11:00am - 12:00pm CST: LGBTQIA+ Physicists
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST: WAGMiP - Women and Gender Minorities in Physics
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST: GRIT - The Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST: REMiP - Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Physics
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