September 23, 2021
Voices
- Infinity Category Theory offers a bird’s-eye view of mathematics
- Jordan Bimm comments, SpaceX’s all-civilian Inspiration4 crew readies for launch
- Department of the Geophysical Sciences postdoctoral fellow Darryl Seligman comments, The wonder of Avi Loeb
Research
- UChicago turbocharges quantum computing quest
- A new carbon material for better bioelectronics
- Aloof neutrons may actually ‘talk’ to one another briefly in new kind of symmetry
- Scientists create tiny capsules that can vacuum up or deliver cargo at will
- Rethinking the logic behind cells’ molecular signals
Education and Community
- President Paul Alivisatos begins tenure with focus on engaging the UChicago community
- New College data science major: From foundations to insight to impact
- U.S. Department of Energy funds center to build a foundation for quantum chemistry
- University awards PSD alumnae Katherine Freese, PhD’84, and Zhenan Bao, SM’93, PhD’95, for professional achievements
- NSF announces $25 million institute in Chicago for quantum biology research
- Asst. Prof. Aaron Elmore receives CAREER Award for resource-efficient databases
- Prof. Young-Kee Kim elected to presidency of the American Physical Society
- Biochemist Prof. Benoît Roux elected Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada
- Two geophysical sciences faculty selected for early career awards by AGU
- Prof. David DeMille awarded Cottrell Plus SEED award
- Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar wins 2022 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
- Introducing new faculty in the Physical Sciences Division
- Revolutionizing technology at the nanoscale, podcast with Paul Alivisatos
- Five UChicago CS students named to Siebel Scholars 2022 class
- Center for Bright Beams awarded $22M to boost accelerator science
- QuSTEAM initiative awarded $5 million from NSF to advance quantum science education