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.”
Carl Zimmer, science columnist for the New York Times and adjunct professor of Molecular Biophysics, will present his new book, “Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe.” He will be in conversation with Brandon Ogbunu, assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Yale School of Medicine.
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.
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.
*Registration for this event is full.*
On behalf of the Department of Physics, we are excited to invite Yale community members to an exclusive viewing of rare physics books, including works by Newton and Gauss.
Dipole-dipole interaction of levitated nanoparticles
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Keith Baker’s new book and enjoy some ice cream and fellowship!
Keith Baker, D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, is the academic editor and co-author of the book “Quantum Entanglement in High Energy Physics,” published by IntechOpen.
“Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect from STAR Beam Energy Scan-II data”
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
