2023
Three-minute eggheads
September 27, 2023
Doctoral students sum up years of work in 180 seconds.
Photography by Jason Smith
Five UChicago CS students named to Siebel Scholars Class of 2024
September 22, 2023
Jas Brooks, Kuntai Du, Miao Li, Madeleine Roberts, and Divij Sinha were selected to the prestigious program’s Class of 2024.
Meet Annie Xie, Statistics
September 21, 2023
Annie Xie grew up in Guilford, CT. She’s in her third year at UChicago as a PhD student in Statistics, where she has been working to develop statistical methods for analyzing and identifying patterns in genetics data.
From Israeli digs to Greenland villages, UChicagoans travel the world for research
September 19, 2023
Geophysical Sciences grad student Freya Chen shares how she spent her summer tapping glaciers to test seismological models.
Photo: Jérémie Bonneau (left) and Oscar Sepulveda perform an active seismic source experiment. Image courtesy of Yulia Antropova.
It’s back to school for cyber gangs, too
September 14, 2023
Computer scientist Marshini Chetty and CS PhD student Jake Chanenson comment on the disparities in cyber data protection for schools compared to banks and other for-profit businesses in an article for The 74.
Argonne workshop connects teachers with data science for new approaches to learning
August 28, 2023
The three-week-long Data Science Institute for High School Teachers brought eight teachers together with staff members from Argonne. They met at Hyde Park Academy High School in Chicago, where they learned about computer science, experimented hands-on with coding tools, and practiced teaching data science to youth.
Photo by Argonne National Laboratory
Quantum information school launches at Fermilab, using subatomic principles for groundbreaking technology
August 11, 2023
A Chicago Tribune article on a new quantum education program at Fermilab mentions UChicago as a partner in the Chicago Quantum Exchange.
Photo by Ryan Postel, Fermilab
Oppenheimer: the view from ground zero
August 1, 2023
"As a physicist working across the street from the Manhattan Project’s atomic breakthrough site, I grapple with Oppenheimer’s legacy and the questions raised by Christopher Nolan’s film every day," writes physics PhD candidate George Iskander in an essay for British Film Institute's Sight and Sound magazine.
Argonne and University of Chicago researchers improve management of electric vehicle charging through machine learning
July 31, 2023
“When you have a lot of EVs charging at the same time, they can create a peak demand on the power station. This introduces increased charges, which we’re trying to avoid,” says Salman Yousaf, a graduate student in applied data science who is working on the project with three other students.
Image by Argonne National Laboratory
In California, a math problem: does data science = algebra II?
July 13, 2023
Data Science for Everyone Director Zarek Drozda mentions that California is one of 17 states now offering data science to high school students in some form, and that Oregon and Ohio offer it as an alternative to Algebra II.
Meet Sandra Tilmon
June 30, 2023
Sandra Tilmon is a graduate of the MS in Applied Data Science part-time program in the Physical Sciences Division.
Meet Ben Kusswurm
June 30, 2023
Ben Kusswurm is a student in the MS in Applied Data Science's online program.
Meet EJ Kang
June 30, 2023
EJ Kang is a MS in Applied Data Science student in the Physical Sciences Division.
PSD recognizes four students with a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship
June 22, 2023
The Physical Sciences Division has selected four graduate students to receive a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Chicago Quantum Exchange produces new quantum education video series for high schoolers
June 20, 2023
Kate Timmerman, CEO of the Chicago Quantum Exchange, comments on Quick Quantum: for High Schoolers, an educational video series.