October 28, 2021
This month PSD researchers have been featured for their efforts to create materials that can move and block heat, use a massive accelerator to analyze dust from an asteroid, and build wearable devices for signing ASL and playing piano.
Voices
- Daniel Holz comments, Did death cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?
- 2-D room-temperature magnets could unlock quantum computing
- Scientists are one step closer to error-correcting quantum computers
Research
- Scientists use nuclear physics to probe Floridan Aquifer threatened by climate change
- Prof. Jiwoong Park leads scientists to create material that can both move and block heat
- Dust collected from a speeding asteroid analyzed with massive accelerator
- New wearable device controls individual fingers for sign language, music applications
- To watch a comet form, a spacecraft could tag along for a journey toward the sun
- Ancient Martian ‘lake’ may have just been ephemeral puddles
- University of Chicago-led research team develops “blueprint” for quantum materials
- Quantum biosensing: medicine at the smallest scales
- Scientists find strange black ‘superionic ice’ that could exist inside other planets
- MicroBooNE experiment’s first results show no hint of a sterile neutrino
- Technique opens ‘new window’ to understanding planets in other solar systems
Education and Community
- Diversity Advisory Board awards geosci student, Haynes Stephens, for championing diversity, inclusion
- Asst. Prof. Edwin Kite awarded funding from first RSCA Scialog initiative
- Students granted DOE Graduate Student Research Award for HEP at Fermi, data science at Argonne
- Why the latest campus cancellation is different
- Three UChicago scientists named 2021 fellows of American Physical Society
- Nation’s first quantum accelerator, Duality, announces first corporate supporters
- Chemist Mark Levin named 2021 Packard Fellow
- Bo Hammer, IMSI, awarded 2022 Excellence in Physics Education Award from APS
- Weizmann Institute of Science joins Giant Magellan Telescope, a top priority for science worldwide
- Two PSD members honored in Spring 2022 APS Prizes and Awards
- Chicago Quantum Summit will gather leaders Nov. 4 to help build quantum ecosystems