News: 2024

January

CS Assistant Professor Robert Rand receives Air Force Young Investigator Grant

January 3, 2024

Robert Rand

The three-year, $450,000 grant will fund Rand’s work on formal verification of the ZX-calculus, a graphical system for representing quantum programs.


Fermilab’s ‘muon shot’ could see suburban lab become site of revolutionary particle collider

January 3, 2024

Prof. Abigail Vieregg discusses the possible construction of a new particle collider, one more powerful than any ever created, at Fermilab.

Photo by Ryan Postel / Fermilab


PSD Spotlight: Josh Kurutz

January 3, 2024

Josh Kurutz

The PSD January Spotlight is Josh Kurutz, NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Facility Manager, Chemistry Department.

"My most recent but ill-fated creative project was a ballet about chemical elements."