2024
Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Bryant
April 10, 2024
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Congratulations to Andrea Bryant for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "HYPOTHETICAL ICY MOON SEISMIC PROFILES FOR COMPARISON TO FUTURE SEISMIC DATA"
Amanda Farah won the 2023 Blue Apple Prize
March 31, 2024
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Congratulations to the 2023 Blue Apple Prize winner, Amanda Farah!
Welcome KICP Fellow Class of KICP 2024
March 26, 2024
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We are pleased to welcome 4 new KICP fellows this fall!
Congratulations to Dr. Wei Quan
March 8, 2024
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Congratulations to Wei Quan for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "ANALYSIS OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE AND E-MODE POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY WITH 2019 AND 2020 DATA FROM THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE".
“Initial results from South Pole Telescope SPT-3G camera hint at future insights about our universe“, UChicago News
February 29, 2024
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New data on the cosmic microwave background released from upgrade with 10 times more detectors
“Summary of a Life in Observational Ultraviolet/Optical Astronomy” by Donald G. York
February 9, 2024
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My main science research is of an observational nature, concerning Galactic and intergalactic interstellar gas. Highlights for me included my work on the orbiting telescope Copernicus, including the discovery of interstellar deuterium; early observations of absorption associated with five-times ionized oxygen; and discoveries concerning the phases of gas in the local interstellar medium, based on previously unobservable interstellar UV spectral lines.
Congratulations to Dr. Jody Ti-Lin Chou
February 9, 2024
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Congratulations to Ti-Lin Chou for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “IMPROVED MEASUREMENTS OF THE TEMPERATURE AND E-MODE POLARIZATION OF THE CMB FROM THE FULL 500-SQUARE-DEGREE SPTPOL DATASET”.
Dean Angela Olinto Named Provost of Columbia University
February 8, 2024
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Angela Olinto, Dean of the Physical Sciences Division, and Professor in A&A, EFI, and Senior Member of the KICP will become the next provost of Columbia University.
Meet a new KICP senior member: Harley Katz
January 21, 2024
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Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2017
“Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights into expansion of universe“, UChicago News
January 18, 2024
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For six years, the Dark Energy Survey catalogued the night sky with this telescope in Chile.
“Scientists find an unusual star that hints at a new way stars can die”, UChicago News
January 11, 2024
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Discovery by UChicago astrophysicists may change our picture of how stars explode and elements are made
John Carlstrom has been awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
January 11, 2024
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University of Chicago astrophysicist celebrated for work investigating the cosmic microwave background for clues about the early universe.
Congratulations to Dr. Fei Xu
January 9, 2024
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Congratulations to Fei Xu for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on “Peeking Into the Future of Dark Matter Searches”.
Meet new KICP associate fellow: George Filippatos
January 7, 2024
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PhD in Physics, Colorado School of Mines, 2023
2023
Meet new KICP associate fellow: Bei Zhou
December 21, 2023
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I am a theorist with a broad interest in astroparticle physics and cosmology, including neutrinos, gamma rays, dark matter, and gravitational waves. Specifically, I am interested in the origin and detection of TeV--PeV neutrinos and the MeV diffuse supernova neutrino background.