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The 2025 Terry Forum: The Question of 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.

The Gift

Presented in multiple languages, The Gift is a therapeutic storytelling experience that connects astrophysical research to universal human experiences of loss, transformation, and renewal. The Gift tells the story of two stars that are so close to one another yet so far from us that they appear as a single point of light in the sky.

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.”

Yale Library Book Talk: Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer

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.

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.

YQI/Franke Nontechnical Talk Series: Toni Dove

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

Revealing the Cosmos: Exploring Deep Space with the Webb Telescope

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.

ThaumCATrope: A Metaphorical Quantum Search in New Haven

The Yale Quantum Institute and the Yale Library Digital Humanities Lab have partnered to create an educational application, at the intersection of art and science, where you would need to explore New Haven and the Yale Campus to find your (Schrödinger) cat, and learn about quantum science along the way! We invite you to be one of our very first app testers (we will have computers and tablets or you can bring your own laptop or phone) in the beautiful space of the DHLab.

Part of New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas

ThaumCATrope: A Metaphorical Quantum Search in New Haven

The Yale Quantum Institute and the Yale Library Digital Humanities Lab have partnered to create an educational application, at the intersection of art and science, where you would need to explore New Haven and the Yale Campus to find your (Schrödinger) cat, and learn about quantum science along the way! We invite you to be one of our very first app testers (we will have computers and tablets or you can bring your own laptop or phone) in the beautiful space of the DHLab.

Part of New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas

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