News: Faculty

Prof. Richard Miller, founding Chair on the Committee of Information Sciences and pioneer in numerical simulations of the formation of structure in the universe and dynamics of galaxies, died Mar. 7 in Chicago.
 
 

With a CDAC Discovery Grant, physicist David Miller and computer scientist Yuxin Chen hope to build a "self-driving" system for selecting and analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

UChicago Medicine’s Emily Landon answers common questions about COVID-19. Assoc. Prof. Landon specializes in infectious disease, and serves as medical director of antimicrobial stewardship and infection control at University of Chicago Medicine.

James Franck Institute physicist Prof. Vincenzo Vitelli and his group push the boundaries between materials and machines. In a new Nature Physics paper, they explain "active materials” could inspire new technology

Oriental Institute, Computer Science scholars collaborate on program to read cuneiform tablets

Scientists Shiva Safaei, Prof. David Mazziotti, and LeeAnn Sager discuss a prediction that dual states of matter can exist in the same material—which may be useful for applications

Geeky T-shirts, open door policy make UChicago computer scientist beloved campus figure

Wired Magazine covers Astronomy Prof. Wendy Freedman and team's use of the “tip of the red giant branch” (TRGB) stars to arrive at a significantly lower Hubble rate than other observers

 Computer Science Education Expert Diana Franklin Promoted to Associate Professor

American Astronomical Society has announced their new Fellows program, kicking it off with an initial group of 200 Legacy Fellows. Astronomy Professors John Carlstrom, Wendy Freedman, and Michael Turner were among those named Legacy Fellows.

A discovery by Chemistry Prof. David Mazziotti, Dr. Shiva Safaei, and graduate student LeeAnn Sager addresses the problem of generating and moving energy efficiently

Assoc. Prof. David Schuster and grad students Akash Dixit and Ankur Agrawal are searching for dark matter with quantum computers, one blip of light at a time

Scientists at Argonne and UChicago entangled photons across a 52-mile quantum loop network, helping to lay the foundations for a national quantum internet

Research on the rate of the universe may point to a New Physics

Computer Science professors Pedro Lopes, Ben Zhao, and Heather Zheng developed wearable defenses against listening devices such as Alexa