News: Research

2020

How to balance privacy while using contact tracing for COVID-19

May 28, 2020

Social distancing and contact tracing

How to balance privacy while using contact tracing for COVID-19. UChicago computer scientist Blase Ur examines smartphone tracking during pandemic


Startup QDIR uses quantum dots for infrared detectors

May 26, 2020

New startup QDIR, based on technology developed at UChicago, is working to commercialize a new, low-cost way to create infrared detectors: with quantum dots


Telescope to be named for Nancy Grace Roman who earned her doctorate at UChicago

May 21, 2020

Nancy Grace Roman

NASA telescope to be named for Nancy Grace Roman, a pioneering woman astronomer who earned her doctorate at UChicago


Prof. Diana Franklin co-lead writer of NSF report on key concepts for quantum education

May 20, 2020

Headshot Diana Franklin

Prof. Diana Franklin co-lead writer of NSF report on key concepts for quantum education


Ocean circulation may hold the key to finding life on exoplanets

May 19, 2020

exoplanet rising above the ocean horizon

Ocean circulation may hold the key to finding life on exoplanets and planets exactly like Earth may not be best places to look, UChicago study finds


‘Groupie’ galaxies orbiting Milky Way tell us about dark matter, how galaxy formed

May 18, 2020

Milky Way galaxy

Data astronomy research co-led by Asst. Prof. Alex Drlica-Wagner reveals ‘groupie’ galaxies orbiting Milky Way tell us about dark matter, how galaxy formed


A new proof measures repulsive force within polynomials using Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture

May 15, 2020

magnetic fields configuring metal sand

Mathematician measures the repulsive force within polynomials with a new mathematical proof involving the Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture. Prof. Frank Calegari comments


Prof. Susan Kidwell honored for pioneering work on fossil record

May 15, 2020

Susan Kidwell paleontologist

Prof. Susan Kidwell honored for pioneering work on fossil record. Paleontological Society Medal recognizes scientist’s conservation paleobiology research


CDAC’s new AI + Science grants fund projects and workshops in chemistry, physics, and CS Education

May 14, 2020

Data servers in a server farm

CDAC’s new AI + Science grants fund projects and workshops in chemistry, physics, and CS Education


Physics student, Jan Offermann, among 62 selected by DOE for high energy physics research at Argonne

May 14, 2020

Jan Offermann

Physics student, Jan Offermann, among 62 selected by DOE for high energy physics research at Argonne


UChicago meteorologist Ted Fujita American Experience airs May 19

May 13, 2020

Promo for Mr. Tornado PBS American Experience

Meteorologist and UChicago Prof. Ted Fujita profile on PBS American Experience: Mr. Tornado: One Man’s Pursuit to Understand the Deadliest Storms airs May 19


Matthew Ackerman and Pranav Gokhale selected for quantum tech entrepreneurship program

May 12, 2020

Left, Matthew Ackerman, and Right, Pranav Gokhale

Two UChicago scientists, Matthew Ackerman and Pranav Gokhale, selected for entrepreneurship program to develop quantum tech


Researchers to develop AI to help diagnose, understand COVID-19 in lung images

May 12, 2020

Maryellen Giger

Researchers to develop AI to help diagnose, understand COVID-19 in lung images. UChicago, Argonne study hopes to learn to identify cases and guide treatment
 


Physics Prof. Sidney Nagel elected to American Philosophical Society

May 11, 2020

Sidney Nagel

Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, among three UChicago scholars elected to American Philosophical Society. He is a pioneer in studying non-linear and far-from-equilibrium behavior in disordered systems.


Meet Kate Smith, PhD, a CQE IBM next-generation quantum workforce trainee

May 11, 2020

Kate Smith, PhD

Meet Kate Smith, PhD in Electrical Engineering, and learn how the CQE IBM postdoc program trains a next-generation quantum workforce