PSD in the News - January 2023

January 26, 2023

Voices

• Prof. Bill Fefferman comments, New algorithm closes quantum supremacy window
• Assoc. Prof. John Anderson comments, Extra-alarm fire guts chemical plant in LaSalle
  • Chemist John Anderson comments as substance from chemical plant fire rains down
• Prof. Daniel Holz comments, How close to midnight is humanity? 2023 Doomsday Clock announcement could warn of nuclear disaster
  • Opinion: The Doomsday Clock is ticking – clock’s hands move closest ever to midnight and catastrophe
  • Doomsday Clock 2023 says the world is closer than ever to global catastrophe
• Wisconsin NPR: Artificial intelligence on the rise with Profs. Willet and Zhao

Research

• We finally know why the Southern Hemisphere is so much stormier
• New mBio Data Portal brings transparency to genetically modified crops in Africa
• Asst. Prof. Sarah Sebo presents robot-human interaction research to Northwestern
• Lifting the veil
• How sleep affects human health, explained
• Meteorite hunters lug a 16.7-pound space rock from Antarctic ice
  • Rare 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica
  • Rare 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica; Chicago scientist will study sample 
• Tiny ion is crucial for HIV replication, say UChicago chemists
• Unmasking 'trickster' exoplanets with bogus signatures of alien life
• Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universe

  • Scientists release detailed map of everything in the universe 

  • ‘Less clumpy’ universe may suggest existence of mysterious forces 

  • New cosmic map reveals the universe's matter isn't as 'clumpy' as it should be 

Education and Community

• Guangbin Dong named Weldon G. Brown Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry and the College
• PIT-UN grant supports DSI Community Data Fellows Program
• Assistant Professor Robert Rand receives Air Force Young Investigator Grant
• Quantum leaders discuss past, present, future of quantum technology at Chicago Quantum Summit
• UChicago launches Polsky Deep Tech Ventures to support startups bringing science, tech to market
• Robert Rosner, 2023 APS President, takes the helm
• High school students find their place in computing through wearables workshop
• ML bias & ethics researcher Kristian Lum joins Data Science Institute
• New DSI Open Spatial Lab brings expertise to social impact organizations
• Professor Heather Zheng named ACM Fellow
• Prof. Ka Yee Lee named Biophysical Society Fellow
• Doomsday Clock moves closest to apocalypse than ever before, at 90 seconds to midnight
• Where is physics headed (and how soon do we get there)?
• UChicago launches accelerator for data science and emerging AI startups
• Geophysical Sciences student selected for Illinois Space Grant Consortium fellowship
• Albert Madansky, AB’52, SM’55, PhD’58, renowned statistician with an ‘endless curiosity’ for business, 1934–2022
• Norman Lebovitz, UChicago mathematician who unraveled the behaviors of stars and galaxies, 1935-2022
• Three PSD scholars named 2022 AAAS fellows

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