News: Faculty

CBS News article details Fermilab's 2024 guest composer program and features comments from Prof. Abigail Vieregg on the ongoing Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

New data on the cosmic microwave background released from upgrade with 10 times more detectors.

In Henry Hinds Laboratory and now the Regenstein Library, Ruth Duckworth’s murals make an art of geophysical science.

Daily Northwestern article highlights a talk on improving decision-making in AI given by Asst. Prof. Chenhao Tan.

In a NYT article, Prof. Daniel Holz says, “It’s difficult to assess what’s good news and what’s bad news, from the perspective of humanity in the next century...black hole physics is a hell of a lot easier.”

Physicists Baudouin Saintyves and Heinrich Jaeger develop a modular robot with liquid and solid properties.

Surface observations indicate that Mars’s early climate supported liquid water—rivers and lakes—for over a billion years. But like Earth, which has experienced both global ice ages and extreme heat over the past eon, Mars’s climate history may have been intermittent.

Stuart Rowan and team developed a material called a “pluripotent plastic,” which has the ability to take on many forms.

Scientists from UChicago, Harvard, and Yale propose model that could apply across a wide range of organisms.

UChicago computer scientist Andrew Chien discusses zero-carbon cloud data centers in a Tech Times article.

Researchers at Pritzker Molecular Engineering, including CQE IBM postdoctoral scholar Junyu Liu of UChicago CS, and collaborators show in a new paper how incorporating quantum computing into the classical machine learning process can potentially help make machine learning more sustainable and efficient.

In a year with a record-breaking number of paper submissions, Bo Li was awarded the NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award.

Nick Feamster's NetMicroscope has developed a tool that lets customers monitor their network and extract meaningful data – enabling intervention before any problems become issues for the users.

ScienceAlert article features Prof. Gregory Voth's research using computer modeling to aid in understanding how the Human Immunodeficiency Virus – better known as HIV – breaks into the nucleus of a cell, enabling it to replicate and spread.

NYT article features research led by Prof. Stuart Rowan that developed a new type of plastic with properties that can be set with heat and then locked in with rapid cooling, a process known as tempering; unlike classic plastics, the material retains this stiffness when returned to room temperature.