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Upcoming events

    • 13 Jun 2013
    • 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
    • Adler Planetarium
    • 213

    C2ST Presents:

    Science in the Second City

    the Chicago Council on Science and Technology’s 3rd Annual Fundraiser Dinner, Dinner with the Stars of Science.

    An evening showcasing Chicagoland’s support for education in the areas of Science and Technology.


    Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013
    Time: 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
    Location: Adler Planetarium

    This event builds on the successful 2011 Science in the Second City: Sharing Discoveries, Changing the World, during which more than 300 of Chicago’s Business, Philanthropic and Community Leaders came together to support the growth of Science and Technology in our community.

    The 2013 event will convene everyone again – to share ideas and experiences critical for the 21st century in science and technology as well as to view what impact the organization has made over the past year.

    • 01 Aug 2013
    • 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • U.S. Cellular Field 333 West 35th Street 60616 Chicago, IL United States
    The Physics of Baseball: "You Can Observe A Lot By Watching"

    Following Yogi's advice, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois Alan Nathan will use high-speed video clips to highlight some of the interesting physics underlying the game of baseball.  The talk will focus on the subtleties of the baseball-bat collision, the intricacies of the flight of a baseball, and many other things. I will investigate some very practical questions and show how a  physicist goes about trying to answer these question. Some examples:

    What is the"sweet spot" of a bat?

    How does the batter's grip affect the batted ball?

    Why does aluminum outperform wood?

    What determines how far a fly ball travels?

    How much does a curve ball break?

    What's the deal with the knuckleball?

    Dr. Nathan's talk should have something for everybody, whether your interest is baseball, physics, or the connection between them.

    • 24 Sep 2013
    • 5:00 PM
    • Northwestern University Chicago Campus - Baldwin Auditorium 303 E. Superior St. Chicago, IL 60611
    Out for the Sperm Count: mysteries of a declining resource

    Since 1974, there has been mounting evidence of declining human sperm counts in several industrialized populations. But there are marked differences in occurrence and timing between regions, suggesting an environmental effect. Sperm counts have not yet declined to levels where fertility is severely threatened, but how serious is the problem and what might the future hold for our species?

    Aurthor & Field Museum Curator, Prof. Robert Martin discuses this and more from his new book -  
    How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction

Past events

03 Apr 2013 Chemical Innovations - Molecular Modeling: A Window to the Biochemical World
21 Mar 2013 Investing in Innovation for the Future: Science and Technology
13 Mar 2013 Music and the Brain
07 Mar 2013 Spies, Satellites and Archaeology: Mapping the Ancient Middle East
21 Feb 2013 Bioluminescence: Living Lights, Lights for Living
25 Jan 2013 CP-1 the Past, Present & Future of Nuclear Energy
04 Dec 2012 Alzheimer's and Aging: Our Fragile Minds
08 Nov 2012 Crime, Evidence and the Law
01 Nov 2012 Science and Technology Member Networking Event
11 Oct 2012 Exploring the Universe from the Bottom of the World
10 Oct 2012 CSI: Picasso
20 Sep 2012 America’s Digital Tomorrow
14 Jun 2012 Science in the Second City
11 May 2012 Women In Science Symposium 2012: Big Ideas, Big Impact
01 May 2012 CERN: What's it all about
19 Apr 2012 Oceans’ Health: An Ecosystem on the Brink
29 Mar 2012 China's Clean Energy: Current Research, Development & Cooperation
16 Mar 2012 About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
23 Feb 2012 Nanotechnology: Small is Beautiful
11 Feb 2012 The Believers
31 Jan 2012 Sustainable Energy: Fact or Fiction
19 Jan 2012 FRACKING - the quest for energy independence
03 Dec 2011 PHYSICS WITH A BANG!/ASK A SCIENTIST
01 Dec 2011 The Science and Policy of Obesity
10 Nov 2011 Gene Patenting: The Economic, Legal and Health Dilemma
13 Oct 2011 Chicago’s Water: Protecting Our Precious Resource
13 Sep 2011 High Speed Rail: The Midwest Moving Forward
05 Aug 2011 The Genius Spark of Nikola Tesla
25 May 2011 Nuclear Non-Proliferation
18 May 2011 Science in the Second City
27 Apr 2011 The Mind of a Chimpanzee
25 Apr 2011 America’s Energy Challenges with Dr. Steve Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10 Mar 2011 Drug Discovery: Ingenuity or Serendipity
24 Feb 2011 BP Oil Spill: The Cause
17 Feb 2011 Cybr Scrty
25 Jan 2011 The Moon
09 Dec 2010 Chicago's Dark Matter: WIMPs of the Underground
04 Dec 2010 Physics with a Bang!
04 Dec 2010 Physics with a Bang!
16 Nov 2010 The Immortal Life of HEnrietta LAcks
21 Sep 2010 Future Fuels
07 Sep 2010 Disaster in the Gulf
06 May 2010 Mudball Earth
17 Apr 2010 Women in Science Symposium 2010: Building an Identity
13 Apr 2010 C²ST and IIT Present a Student Series on: Building-Integrated Wind Power: Conceptual Applications of the Self-Powered Built Environment
06 Apr 2010 Asian Carp Invasion: Potential Economic and Ecological Impacts in the Great Lakes
31 Mar 2010 Member Networking Forum: The Public Understanding of Science
11 Mar 2010 Using Scientific Research to Fix Science Education
18 Feb 2010 Storing Alternative Energies
06 Dec 2009 When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs
02 Dec 2009 Stem Cells & Nanotechnology: The Tools of Regenerative Medicine
12 Nov 2009 Water: The New Oil?
28 Oct 2009 Hubble's Story
26 Oct 2009 A Screening of In the Family: How much do you sacrifice to survive?
22 Oct 2009 The State of Science Education: A Local and National Perspective
14 Oct 2009 Molecular to Monumental: Rediscovering Lost Cultures from the Inside Out
18 Sep 2009 Science and Technology Policy: A View from Washington, D.C.
 
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