September 3, 2021
This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to bring software that makes quantum computing faster to the market, to speed up development of materials that can harness energy from sunlight, and to pioneer US quantum research and design a new internet protocol that manages different types of quantum information encoding.
Voices
- Space historian Jordan Bimm comments, Business leaders have immense power over space travel but there's a risk they won't make ethical decisions for the rest of us, say experts
- Prof. Robert Rosner comments, Utilities eye mini nuclear reactors as climate concerns grow
- The secret Nazi past and billionaire future of U.S. space innovation, podcast with Jordan Bimm
- How a genetic breakthrough could address global hunger, podcast with Prof. Chuan He
Research
- New startup from CS Prof. Fred Chong and Pranav Gokhale, PhD’20, builds software to make quantum computing faster
- Researchers transfer a human protein into plants to supersize them
- Machine learning provides a shortcut to simulate interactions in materials for solar energy harvesting
Education and Community
- Noel Swerdlow, one of the ‘greatest scholars’ of the history of science, 1941-2021
- UChicago researchers excel in IBM Quantum Open Science Challenge
- Brian Nord envisions hybrid analysis method that applies AI to cosmology
- 2011 paper co-authored by Prof. Hank Hoffmann receives Test of Time honor
- Incoming UChicago president Paul Alivisatos accepts Priestley Medal
- Internet protocol for different quantum information encoding awarded DOE funding