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University of Chicago physicist Abby Vieregg is leading an international experiment that essentially uses the ice in Antarctica as a giant detector to find extremely energetic particles from outer space. Recently approved by NASA, the $20 million project will build an instrument to fly above the Antarctic in a balloon, launching in December 2024.

Hsiao-Wen Chen, KICP senior member and Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics , has been named 2022 American Astronomical Society Fellows. The AAS Fellows program was established in 2019 to recognize AAS members for their contributions toward the Society's mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of the universe.  

Asst. Prof. Alex Ji comments on the potential of the James Webb Telescope

Astro2020 survey prioritizes UChicago-affiliated projects such as Giant Magellan Telescope, CMB-S4

The Weizmann Institute of Science is joining the GMTO Corporation. The new partnership reinforces that completing the largest and most powerful Gregorian optical-infrared telescope ever engineered is a top priority for the global scientific community.

Alex is a postdoctoral appointee in the CPAC group of the  Argonne National Laboratory. He is interested in the study of the expansion and growth history of the Universe using data from galaxy surveys and cosmological simulations. He has worked in the analysis of galaxy clustering measurements and photometric redshift error estimation and calibration for photometric lensing surveys.

Zhuowen Zhang has received the Prize for the Best Poster at the Fermilab Users Meeting in August, on DES galaxy cluster research.

Kaeli Hughes,  KICP graduate student, won a  2021 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics

UChicago-led South Pole Telescope helps pinpoint location of supermassive black hole in galaxy Centaurus A

Congratulations to Qing Yang (Amy) Tang for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Development of Kinetic Inductance Detectors for mm and sub-mm Observations".

Evan has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg. He will start his new position in the fall, do wish him well!

Daniel has accepted a position as an  Associate Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory . He will  start his new position in August, do wish him well.

Cosmologist discusses what happened after the Big Bang, ‘breaking’ the Standard Model of Physics

Congratulation to the winners of the Department of Energy Early Career Awards:  Chihway Chang, Brian Nord, and Lindsey Bleem.

Congratulations to Nora Shipp for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Discovery & Modeling of Milky Way Stellar Streams".