2023
“NSF awards up to $21.4M for design of next-gen telescopes to capture earliest moments of universe”, UChicago News
October 30, 2023
Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe
Professor Rocky Kolb awarded the APS Lilienfeld Prize
October 24, 2023
In an interview with APS News, Kolb discusses the Big Bang, parallel universes, and the need for public outreach.
Meet new KICP associate fellow: Colm Talbot
October 23, 2023
Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Meet new senior member: David W. Miller
October 23, 2023
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2011
Meet new KICP associate fellow: Philipp Windischhofer
October 18, 2023
Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2022
Meet new KICP Fellow: Hongwan Liu
October 5, 2023
Ph.D., MIT, 2019
Meet new KICP associate fellow: Daniel Gilman
October 4, 2023
Brinson Fellow, University of Chicago
Meet new KICP associate fellow: Georgios Valogiannis
October 4, 2023
Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Meet new senior member: Jamie Law-Smith
October 3, 2023
Assistant Professor | PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, 2021
Meet new KICP associate fellow: Huangyu Xiao
September 27, 2023
Ph.D., University of Washington, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Jisheng Zhang
September 22, 2023
Congratulations to Jisheng Zhang for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Thermal and Magnetic History of Rocky Exoplanets”.
Meet new CASE Associate: Andrew P Hearin
September 15, 2023
Andrew Hearin received his Ph.D. in physics in 2012 from the University of Pittsburgh. He worked as a postdoc in the Theoretical Astrophysics group at Fermi National Lab, and then as postdoctoral fellow at Yale before joining Argonne in 2017.
Meet new Associate KICP Fellow: Keith McBride
July 31, 2023
Ph.D., Physics, Ohio State University, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Georgios Zacharegkas
July 14, 2023
Congratulations to Georgios Zacharegkas for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Modeling the non-linear scales in Cosmology via the galaxy-halo connection with applications in DES Y3”.
Congratulations to Dr. Clarke Esmerian
June 27, 2023
Congratulations to Clarke Esmerian for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Modeling Dust Production, Growth, and Destruction in Reionization-Era Galaxies”.