February 9, 2023
Prof. Michael Gladders is the 2022-2023 recipient of the Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award, a U. Chicago Physical Sciences Divisional honor that provides funding for intellectually exciting and innovative research ventures that enables new directions of research. Prof. Gladders plans to use the funding to deploy artificial intelligence/machine learning methods to increase the efficiency of observing with the Giant Magellan Telescope, in which the University is a founding partner. Such efficiency gains could potentially save the equivalent of millions of dollars in operations cost each year for the telescope.