2021
Physics Career Day 2021
10:30 am–6:00 pm
The 5th Annual Physics Career day will provide physics and students with the opportunity to engage with UChicago physics alumni of varied experience levels to learn more about the variety of career paths available to them.
Virtual Memorial for Professor Emeritus Roger Hildebrand(1922-2021)
1:00–4:00 pm
Virtual Memorial for Professor Emeritus Roger Hildebrand(1922-2021)
SWiP Annual 1st Year/4th Year Brunch
11:00 am–12:30 pm
SWiP's annual 1st year/4th year brunch gives 1st years just starting their physics journey a chance to meet and interact with the outgoing class of undergraduate women in physics at UChicago over brunch at the Med.
Physics Colloquium
3:30–4:30 pm Zoom
Special Colloquium on J. Franck: The “Inner Necessity” of a Reluctantly Public Intellectual: James Franck as Leader of the Physics Community under Political Pressure
Richard Beyler, Portland State U.
Host: TBA
SWiP Speaker Series: Dr. Anette (Peko) Hosoi
4:00–5:00 pm Zoom
Each quarter, SWiP invites speakers from academia and industry to to informally chat with students about their career paths and experiences. Dr. Hosoi's topic will be Mech. Engineering/Sports Science/Fluids.
SWiP Pizza with Professors
6:00–8:00 pm Zoom
SWiP invites all of the physics and astrophysics professors currently working at the University of Chicago to join club members for a night of pizza and networking.
Zachariasen Memorial Lecture
3:30–4:30 pm
Black Holes and Spacetime Singularities Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara Host: Young-Kee Kim
Xining Zhang’s PhD Thesis Defense
2:30–3:30 pm
Weerapat Pittayakanchit’s PhD Thesis Defense
12:00–1:00 pm
Physics Colloquium
3:30–4:30 pm Zoom
Listening to the Sound of Entanglement
John Teufel, NIST/Boulder
Host: David Schuster