2021
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
Mao Tian Tan’s PhD Thesis Defense
3:00–4:00 pm