News: Newsclips

2023

LHC physicists can’t save them all

November 17, 2023

As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using machine learning to keep up with the growing task of sorting through everything. David Miller, an associate professor of Physics and a member of the ATLAS experiment, weighs in.


Here are this year’s winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards

November 17, 2023

SAND lab logo

Crain's Chicago Business article discusses UChicago's SAND Lab's inclusion in the 2023 Chicago Innovation Awards.


Mystery over ‘alien objects’ found at the bottom of the ocean deepens after a new theory of eerie metal spheres emerges

November 17, 2023

Patricio Gallardo

KICP Fellow Patricio Gallardo discusses in a U.S. Sun article his doubts over a claim that a sphere found in the Pacific Ocean is of extraterrestrial origin.


AI can steal passwords in virtual reality from avatar hand motions

November 15, 2023

Heather Zheng

In a NewScientist article, CS Prof. Heather Zheng discusses AI's ability to figure out what someone is typing in VR meetings, saying, "You don't even need to know the person. As long as you can get in the same VR room as them, they're done."


Six PSD members named Highly Cited Researchers

November 15, 2023

Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2023

Six UChicago physical and mathematical scientists were named in Web of Science's 2023 report of highly cited researchers. According to Web of Science, researchers on the list have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields and contribute “disproportionately to extending the frontiers of knowledge and gaining for society innovations that make the world healthier, more sustainable and more secure.” 
 


Three Argonne scientists inducted as Fellows of American Physical Society

November 14, 2023

Katrin Heitmann

Congratulations to Katrin Heitmann, a Senior Associate for the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, for being inducted as an American Physical Society Fellow!

Heitmann’s research currently focuses on computational cosmology, in particular, on trying to understand the causes for the accelerated expansion of the Universe, and the role of dark matter and dark energy.


A crack at solving the asymmetry mystery

November 10, 2023

David DeMille

APS Ramsey Prize winner David DeMille describes his groundbreaking ACME experiment and how it puts the Standard Model to the test.


PSD Spotlight: Miranda Redenbaugh

November 10, 2023

Miranda Redenbaugh with elephant

PSD's November spotlight is Miranda Redenbaugh, Assistant Director of Communications, Dept. of Computer Science


Records reveal hidden history of female astronomers at Yerkes Observatory

November 9, 2023

Astronomer at the 40-inch refractor telescope of Yerkes Observatory under the 90-foot dome.

UChicago team chronicles dozens of women who worked and made discoveries in early 20th century.


The good, the bad, and the ugly of all that screen time

November 9, 2023

Marshini Chetty

In a WBEZ-FM Chicago audio segment, CS Prof. Marshini Chetty discusses how too much screen time on devices can hurt health by increasing anxiety, depression, and a sedentary lifestyle and how to change that.


A delicate balance

November 9, 2023

Ngô Bảo Châu

An interview with the new chair of Mathematics

Ngô Bảo Châu, the Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor, was named the Department of Mathematics chair, starting July 1, 2023. In this Q&A, he discusses his priorities for the department, the exciting work of his colleagues, and his vision for collaboration.


Machine learning

November 8, 2023

Sarah Sebo, right

High school students in the Collegiate Scholars Program get to know robots, with Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sarah Sebo.


If you can’t stand the heat …

November 8, 2023

illustration of Sandra Greer

A new book by Chemistry alumna Sandra Greer, SM’68, PhD’69, brings hard science to the kitchen.


Exploring the hottest research topics on atoms and molecules at the coldest temperatures

November 8, 2023

Midwest Cold Atom Workshop 2023

Over 180 researchers joined the MCAW 2023 (Midwest Cold Atom Workshop) held at the University of Chicago November 3–4, 2023, to discuss their research interest in tutorials, invited talks, and poster presentations, and to brainstorm on the future of quantum science with atoms and molecules.


NASA telescopes discover record-breaking black hole

November 8, 2023

Irina Zhuravleva

Phys.org article reviews a paper describing the most distant black hole ever seen in X-rays, on which Astro Asst. Prof. Irina Zhuravleva is an author.