News: Research

Article notes Assoc. Prof. Luca Grandi’s role in the Xenon experiment, an investigation into the nature of dark matter, which has been halted by the pandemic

In Quanta, Prof. Matthew Emerton describes two new papers that reveal fundamental number-theoretic phenomena that overcome the barrier of bridging two continents—a challenge generations of researchers have pursued as “Langland's program,” which seeks to create a grand unified theory of mathematics. These findings may help prove Fermat’s Last Theorem for some number systems beyond the positive whole numbers.

A team of 60 scientists and engineers, students and clinicians from both the private sector and universities, including the University of Chicago, are unveiling N95decon.org, a website that synthesizes the scientific literature about mask decontamination to create a set of best practices to decontaminate and reuse this protective face covering during the current emergency.

This month PSD researchers have been featured for the efforts of chemists to decode RNA of the new coronavirus, using AI to decode cuneiform tablets, and predicting a new state of matter.

The new C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI) unites six research universities, including UChicago, with AI software provider C3.ai and Microsoft to focus scientific efforts on advancing the knowledge, science and technologies for mitigating the impact of future pandemics.

Prof. Chuan He hopes to begin working on purified viral RNA from collaborators early this week.

Research by PhD Student Pranav Gokhale and EPiQC Wins IBM Q Best Paper

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

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

UChicago female chemist Tosh Mayeda went from an internment camp to studying the chemistry of the solar system

UChicago computer scientists propose Fawkes, a system that allow individuals to inoculate themselves against unauthorized facial recognition models

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. New findings featuring co-author Jonas Jägermeyr, a postdoctoral research in Computer Science, has been published in Nature Sustainability

Adina Feinstein, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at UChicago, talks about the difficulties of finding young planets