2020
UChicago computer scientists propose Fawkes, a system fighting unauthorized facial recognition models
March 10, 2020
UChicago computer scientists propose Fawkes, a system that allow individuals to inoculate themselves against unauthorized facial recognition models
A theory for generating and moving energy efficiently
March 10, 2020
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
Feeding 10 billion people on Earth is possible—and sustainable, scientists say
March 9, 2020
Feeding 10 billion people on Earth is possible—and sustainable, scientists say. New findings featuring co-author Jonas Jägermeyr, a postdoctoral research in Computer Science, has been published in Nature Sustainability
Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve
March 4, 2020
Adina Feinstein, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UChicago, talks about the difficulties of finding young planets
New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago, reveals drug target
March 2, 2020
New coronavirus protein, mapped in Chicago, reveals drug target. UChicago part of team that solved the structure.
Wired Magazine covers Astro Prof. Wendy Freedman’s work on the Hubble Constant
March 2, 2020
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
Building a 3D map of the universe to uncover the mysteries of dark energy
February 28, 2020
SciTechDaily profiles Dark Energy Survey and how new instrumentation may give the best insight yet into how dark energy has behaved over time
UChicago scientists predict new state of matter
February 25, 2020
A discovery by Chemistry Prof. David Mazziotti, Dr. Shiva Safaei, and graduate student LeeAnn Sager addresses the problem of generating and moving energy efficiently
PSD in the News - February 2020
February 25, 2020
This month PSD researchers have been featured for taking the most detailed images of the sun's surface, creating a new technique to analyze moon rocks, and designing several components for the detectors for the ATLAS experiment.
Assoc. Prof. David Schuster and Fermilab scientist Daniel Bowring use quantum computing to explore dark matter
February 20, 2020
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
February 19, 2020
Scientists at Argonne and UChicago entangled photons across a 52-mile quantum loop network, helping to lay the foundations for a national quantum internet
Scientific American covers the debate around Astronomy Prof. Wendy Freedman’s research on the rates of the universe
February 19, 2020
Research on the rate of the universe may point to a New Physics
New York Times features UChicago Computer Science wearable jammer project
February 17, 2020
Computer Science professors Pedro Lopes, Ben Zhao, and Heather Zheng developed wearable defenses against listening devices such as Alexa
University of Chicago to build instrumentation for upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider
February 13, 2020
With $5.5M in new federal funding, faculty, students, engineers to design several components for ATLAS experiment detector
Astronomy Professor Robert Rosner discusses recent breakthrough solar imagery on Chicago Tonight
February 13, 2020
Prof. Rosner explains Inouye Telescope advancements and why new imagery is exciting