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The Path of Memory, the Space Within: From Synapses to Quantum Physics

Join visual artist Serena Scapagnini and scientist Florian Carle for a walking tour of New Haven to discover Serena’s original artworks created during her residency at the Yale Quantum Institute. The stops include installations on the New Haven Green, at the Robert B Haas Family Arts Library, and at the Yale Quantum Institute. The artworks are site-specific, composed of copper plates encapsulated painted paper and copper wires, playing on different types of memory: from biological systems and synapses to quantum memory and information stored in qubits.

Copenhagen

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.

Kimball Smith Series: Shifting Orbits: Innovation, Astronomy, and the Ethics of Space Policy

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.

The Gift: In Conversation

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.

The 2025 Terry Forum: The Question Concerning AI

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?

Seeing Time: Strategies for Thinking with Art

In this Gallery Talk, Sydney Skelton Simon, the Bradley Associate Curator of Academic Affairs, demonstrates some of the strategies used by museum educators to facilitate deep thinking with and about works of art. Simon discusses how she guides university classes from a wide range of disciplines to engage with works of art in ways that stretch students’ thinking about course topics in new and creative ways.

CCAM Symposium: Illuminations

The CCAM Symposium is an annual, interdisciplinary event that investigates the cultural landscape of our time. Acting as a bridge between the discoveries at CCAM and those on campus and beyond, it features discussions, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and more. In 2025, the symposium explores the theme of “illuminations.”

At Mme. Curie's Lab

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.

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