November 19, 2020
Voices
- Glaciologist Doug MacAyeal comments on an iceberg headed for a sub-antarctic island
- Mineral physicist Andrew Campbell comments on how we know what’s deep inside the Earth, despite never traveling there
- Computer scientist Nick Feamster discusses Twitter and Facebook disinformation on PBS-affiliate WTTW
Research
- A new grasp on empathy: Computer Science HandMorph Project uses tech to simulate children’s experience
- UChicago scientists turn IBM computer into a quantum material
- Carl-Gustaf Rossby, the first head of the UChicago Institute of Meteorology, led the conversion of weather research from a descriptive to a predictive science
- Meteorologist Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (1920–1998) led a tempestuous career
- A search for supersymmetric particles in the ATLAS detector at CERN
- Resisting the rise of facial recognition mention of Fawkes
- Meteorite hunters Assoc. Prof. Phillipp Heck and postdoctoral researcher Jennika Greer featured on CNN
- The age of quantum computing is fast approaching, and new UChicago CS Assistant Professor Robert Rand builds the interfaces that makes working with these revolutionary machines possible
- Professor of Chemistry Wenbin Lin co-led a new study that uses a nanotechnology to provide hope for personalized ‘vaccination’ to treat cancer
Education & Community
- First inaugural PSD Staff Awards honors five members for dedication and hard work
- Chicago Quantum Exchange welcomes six new partners, including company founded by UChicago CS Alum
- Globus celebrates ten years of connecting the research universe
- Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at UChicago event about impact of quantum research
- Masatoshi Koshiba, 94, dies; Nobel winner tracked ghostly neutrinos, was postdoctoral researcher at UChicago
- ECHO game brings students together—and keeps them safe. Culminating in an Oct. 30 livestream, ECHO game brought together students and other members of the UChicago community through weeks of collaborative play
- Chicago Quantum Summit highlights new U.S. quantum centers, economic opportunities
- Five UChicago scientists named 2020 AAAS fellows, with pioneering PSD scientists Laura Gagliardi, John Carlstrom, and Yamuna Krishnan attaining recognition
- South African roots, travel shape computer scientist’s research