What is KICP? Festival of Maps Goals of this Course Your Mission Schedule Logistics Introductions

1. Welcome to Chicago Maps the Cosmos: A Cosmology Short Course for Museum & Planetarium Staff • What is KICP? • Festival of Maps • Goals of this Course • Your Mission • Schedule • Logistics • Introductions Randy Landsberg Director Education & Outreach

2. KICP ? (chickpea?) • NSF Physics Frontier Center (2001) CfCP • Profound Advances + Education & Outreach • What is dark energy? • Did inflation happen and if so why? • What do the highest energy particles tell us about the cosmos? • KICP = Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics • $7.5 Million Endowment from Kavli Foundation (2004)

3. Goal of This Course: To incorporate modern cosmology into planetarium/museum programming BRING COSMOLOGYTO THE PUBLIC • Framework for Understanding Cosmology • Tools to Use @ Your Planetarium/Museum • Visuals • Movies • Resources • e-Lectures • Stories/Experiences • Seeds for Future: Collaborations/Exhibits/Shows

4. Festival of Maps • City-Wide Celebration • Anchored by Field Museum Exhibit • THEME of the Short Course 4

5. Your Mission…. • Actively Participate • Bring Cosmology Back HOME • Planetarium, Museum, Magazine, Corporation… • Provide Feedback • During the Course • Evaluations -what was useful? • At GLPA, ASP-EPO, IPS ... • Keep us informed of your progress • Follow Up Evaluations

6. Schedule: Themes • Overview • Mapping the Universe Today • How the Map was Made (Forces that Shaped the Universe) • How Theory Maps to Observation

7. Course Schedule: Friday Dec. 7, 2007 8:00 AM Coffee and Welcome (Landsberg) 8:30 - 10:00 AM Lecture I : Overview (Kolb) 10:00 AM Coffee 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Lecture II : Mapping Structure (Matter) (Frieman) 12 PM Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 PM Lecture III: Mapping the Unseen: Dark Matter (Gladders) 2:30 PM Coffee 3:00 PM Bus to Museum Campus/Field/Adler Planetarium 3:30 - 4:00 PM Lecture On Field Mapping Exhibit (Classroom C) (Gretchen Baker & Todd Tubtis) 4:00 - 5:00 PM Field Exhibit Self Guided Tour - "Maps: Finding Our Place in the World" 5:30 - 6:30 PM Tour of Adler - "Mapping the Heavens" Exhibit & "Space Visualization Lab (SVL)" (Mark SubbaRao & Jodi Lacy) 6:30 - 8:30 PM Reception & Far Out Friday Activities 9:00 PM Shuttle Departs for I-House

8. Saturday Dec. 8, 2007 8:30 AM Coffee Question & Answer Session 9:00 - 10:30 AM Lecture IV: Mapping the Forces: Dark Energy (Turner) 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Break-out Session 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Informal Lunch (Break-out Session continued) 1:00 - 2:30 PM Lecture V: Current Map of the Early Universe: CMB Observations (Pryke) 2:30 - 3:00 PM Coffee Q & A 3:00 - 4:30 PM Lecture VI: How the Map Was Made: Gravity (Kravtsov) 4:30 - 5:30 PM Participants Present 6:00 PM Dinner/Social (I-House)

9. Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (ends 2:00 pm) 9:00 - 10:00 AM Coffee Q & A Session 10:00 - 11:00 AM Lecture VII: How the Map Was Made Part II: When Matter & Radiation Were Coupled (Dodelson) 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Lecture VIII: How Theory Maps to Observations: Particle Connection (Kolb) 12:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch; Informal Q & A; Close-out

10. Logistics • Locations • UC/LASR 152 (Conference) • Fri PM only - Field Museum & Adler Planetarium • Lecture Slides Will Be Provided • Hardcopy & (latter) web & thumb drive 2GB • E-mail Access - wireless “Maps” & terminal • Meals Provided • Transportation Provided to/from I-House/Field/Adler/Socials • See Bus Schedule • Post-Course • Aimee will coordinate travel to airports (Sign-up sheet) • Travel Reimbursement - Aimee • Evaluation

11. Quick Introductions