Join us for a captivating presentation of Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, the culminating event of the 2025 Yale Innovation Summit
Set in 1941, Copenhagen explores the enigmatic meeting between German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, amidst the backdrop of World War II. As former collaborators now on opposing sides, they grapple with the mysteries of quantum physics and the complexities of human relationships.
As satellite constellations multiply and commercial space activity accelerates, astronomers face new challenges to their ability to observe the universe. Join Dr. Laura Newburgh, a leading experimental cosmologist at Yale, for a conversation on the evolving relationship between space innovation and observational astronomy.
Join us for an in-depth conversation around The Gift and its potential applications across fields such as palliative care, public health, and community wellness spaces. This conversation will include a preview of the experience beginning at 12pm. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR THE GIFT: IN CONVERSATION.
Feel free to rejoin us for the The Gift experience in Commons beginning at 6pm, registration required.
Wenliang Chen ‘92 PhD (applied physics), Chief Technology Officer at AP Memory, will join us as the next Dean’s Invited Speaker hosted by Dean Jeffrey Brock ‘92.
Challenges and Opportunities in AI High Performance Computing (HPC)
Is AI as revolutionary as fire in changing the world? Or is that hype? But can it be hype when AI has such obvious benefits in some research fields? How can we leverage the astonishing potential of AI in a rational, practical and responsible way? Is AI a moral panic, a sales job, a generational opportunity, a threat of apocalypse? How can we think clearly and deeply about a topic that is so obscured by glitz, money, and noise? How can we as scholars at Yale collectively understand AI in our academic setting, and how should our research and teaching respond to advances in AI?
Date: Friday, December 6th
Time: 3-4:30 pm
Location: GM Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave
Speaker: Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist at X-energy, Dr. Eben Mulder
Register here: https://forms.gle/hh9tUf5F3V67qJQeA
In addition to being the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne and the only person ever to have won Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry, Marie Curie welcomed other women into her lab. It was her lab from the untimely death of her husband, Pierre, in 1906, till her own death in 1934. She ran it, enlarged it, moved it into the imposing new Radium Institute, and peopled it with an international assembly of scientists, more than forty of whom were women, including her daughter Irène, the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Join us for the 19th talk of Yale Quantum Institute series of nontechnical talks aiming to bring a new regard to quantum physics and STEM by having experts cast new light on often-overlooked aspects of scientific work.
Embodied Machines & Human Operated Instruments: working in a field that doesn’t exist yet
Now in science operations, NASA’s Webb Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever built. Science results are now pouring in from Webb like a waterfall. In this talk, Dr. Riby will summarize what this Webb is, how it works, and the breadth and the depth of its science program, from planets in our own solar system to galaxies seen when the Universe was young. She will touch on the power of using Webb in combination with cosmic telescopes, also known as gravitational lenses.
Stop by and see original artworks made by YCBA staff members.
32 Edgewood Gallery
Open Daily*
12–4 PM
*Closed June 15, 16 and 19
