university of chicago

university of chicago

Big Science: Big Challenges Panel Discussion

23m ago
SOURCE  

Description

Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago; Piermaria Oddone, Fermilab Director; Eric Isaacs, Argonne National Laboratory Director, and Trudy Vincent, UChicago Associate Vice President for Federal Relations, discuss the promise and challenges of doing big science. Steve Edwards, Deputy Director, Programming, UChicago Institute of Politics, is moderator of the discussion, which took place on May 16, 2013, at the Museum of Science and Industry. The event was the seventh in a series of Joint Speaker programs begun in 2010 by the University's Office of the Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories. The purpose of the series is to build connections and spark collaborations among University faculty members and scientists, researchers, and engineers at Argonne and Fermilab.