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7/01/2025
CLS Science Communications Workshop
7/01/2025
CLS Outreach Chat
Please join Rachel, Friday, July 25th at 1:30pm in GCIS E123, to chat about current demos for outreach events this year as well as any new ideas.
7/01/2025
CLS Coffee Hour
Our next coffee hour will be July 25th at 3pm in GCIS E223. We hope to have these once a month for members of the CLS to chat informally and get to know each other.
6/01/2025
Congratulations Ondrej Maxian!
Congrats to Ondrej Maxian (Munro Lab) on receiving a CLS Spark Fellowship.
6/01/2025
Sid Nagel featured in Quanta Magazine
Read about Sid Nagel in Quanta magazine.
6/01/2025
CLS Coffee Hour
Our next coffee hour will be June 27th at 3pm in GCIS E223. We hope to have these once a month for members of the CLS to chat informally and get to know each other.
5/01/2025
Congratulations Vincenzo Vitelli!
Vincenzo Vitelli is a CNRS Fellow-Ambassadors from 2025-2027.
5/01/2025
Congratulations Margaret Gardel, Aleksandra Walczak and Peter Littlewood!
Margaret Gardel, Peter Littlewood and Aleksandra Walczak were elected as members of The National Academy of Sciences! You can view the full list of newly elected members here.
5/01/2025
Congratulations Kei Yamamoto!
Kei Yamamoto (Gardel Lab) was awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Global Science.
5/01/2025
AI+ for Quantitative Imaging Shared Facility
CLS Quantitative Imaging Seminar #5: Image Filtering and Enhancement, will be Friday, May 23rd from 11am-1pm in GCIS E123.
5/01/2025
CLS Coffee Hour
Our first coffee hour will be May 30th after QBio Journal Club at 3pm in GCIS E223. We hope to have these once a month for members of the CLS to chat informally and get to know each other.
4/01/2025
AI+ for Quantitative Imaging Shared Facility
CLS Quantitative Imaging Seminar #4: Particle Tracking, will be Friday, April 4th at 11am in GCIS E223.
4/01/2025
Hold the date! – CLS Retreat
Please save the date for an upcoming retreat covering topics of MA2&3 on May 16. Suri is busy planning the day and we expect to host two of our EAC members, Dave Weitz and Dave Thirumalai.
3/01/2025
CLS Trainee Advisory Committee (CLSTAC) Members
Thank you to Amanda Johnson (Gardel Lab), Josh Sodicoff (Kuehn/Pincus Labs) and Omer Granek (Vitelli Lab) for stepping up to be on the inaugural CLSTAC! They are your points of contact to chat with about how to improve CLS research and training environment. Soon, they will be launching a CLS Trainee Seminar series, looking for speakers applicable both in subject area and content to a broad swath of CLS researchers. Submit nominations for internal (or Chicago-area) speakers here!
3/01/2025
PoLS Pedagogy
Prof. Catherine Crouch (Swarthmore) will be leading the CLS efforts to expand PoLs pedagogy. She is currently gathering curricular materials for Biological Physics courses and seeking a few graduate students and/or postdocs who would be willing to help her with this project. If you are interested, please learn more here.
2/01/2025
Mentor Training Sessions
Our second Mentor Training Session, facilitated by Laura Rico-Beck, is February 27th at 2pm in GCIS ESB36. This session will feature faculty guests Brent Doiron and Stephanie Palmer.
1/01/2025
APS March Meeting – Squishy Science Sunday
For anyone attending March Meeting, the Sunday before, March 16th, is Squishy Science Day. This is an opportunity to do public outreach, like the South Side Science Festival or Physics with a Bang!
1/01/2025
Mentor Training Sessions
Our first Mentor Training Session, facilitated by Laura Rico-Beck, is January 31st at 2pm in GCIS E123. This session will feature faculty guests Aaron Dinner and Jasmine Nirody.
12/01/2024
Physics with a Bang! – Volunteer Opportunity
On Saturday, December 7th, the CLS will be helping participate in Physics with a Bang! Please let Rachel Strom know if you are interested in helping with demos and an open house in GCIS. Volunteering is from 10am-5pm. The link to details is here.
11/01/2024
Mentor Training Opportunity
In early 2025, Laura Rico-Beck will facilitate 2 mentoring sessions for postdocs. Please use this form to sign up and indicate which time is preferred for both days.
11/01/2024
CLS-CNRS Collaboration
CLS received a $50,000 award from the France Chicago Center to support student/postdoc mobility for four projects we proposed and fund a workshop on Physics of Living Systems in Paris, France!
11/01/2024
Upcoming: Physics Pedagogy Colloquia – 11/21/24 & 4/24/2025
As part of one of the CLS goals to examine culture and practices of Physics education, we’ve invited two experts on these topics to give a Physics Colloquium. Geraldine Cochran is speaking on 11/21/2024 and Catherine Crouch will be visiting on 4/24/2025. Prof. Cochran is an Associate Professor at U. Ohio and will be speaking on “Understanding the Community Cultural Wealth of Physics Graduate Students and Implications for Graduate Programs.”
11/01/2024
Call for Volunteers for Inaugural CLS Trainee Advisory Committee
We are looking for 1-2 more volunteers, preferably theory/computation student(s)/postdoc(s), who are interested in launching the CLS Trainee Advisory Committee and the Trainee Seminar and Coffee Hours in 2025.
10/01/2024
CLS Seminar and Townhall
10/01/2024
CLS activities starting up this quarter
The CLS QBio journal club - meetings will be held every other Friday at 2pm in GCIS E223. Join the listserv for future updates and sign up here to volunteer as a presenter.
The CLS Chalk Talks series - talks will be every other Friday at 12pm in GCIS E223. Join the listserv for future updates and sign up here to volunteer as a presenter.
08/30/2024
Apply for CLS Postdoctoral Fellowship
Please advertise our CLS Postdoctoral Fellowship and encourage outstanding junior colleagues to apply! Deadline is November 1, 2024.