2023
First results from DAMIC-M chosen as PRL Editors’ Suggestion
May 3, 2023
Led by PI Privitera, the DAMIC-M experiment published it’s first, world-leading results searching for sub-GeV dark matter via electron scattering in silicon CCDs.
Prof. Michael Gladders is the 2022-2023 recipient of the Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award
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.
Erik Shirokoff, astronomer who built instruments to map the universe, 1979-2023
February 3, 2023
Assoc. Prof. Erik Shirokoff, a University of Chicago astronomer who built instruments to understand the earliest ages of the universe, died Jan. 26. He was 43.
A coherent story of the Universe from galaxy and CMB surveys
January 31, 2023
Combining data from the Dark Energy Survey and the South Pole Telescope, scientists piece together a coherent story of the Universe from galaxy and CMB surveys. These are some of the most stringent tests of the standard cosmological model using cross-correlations of independent data sets.
“Robert Rosner, 2023 APS President, Takes the Helm”, APS News
January 30, 2023
Robert Rosner likes big questions.
How could nuclear power help humanity in a warming climate? How can physicists better explain their work to the public? And why are magnetic fields… well, everywhere? “The nerve of them, being so ubiquitous,” he says.
2022
“Discovering the highest energy particles from the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet”, PSD spotlight
October 27, 2022
Prof. Abigail Vieregg and her students build instruments to detect the highest energy neutrinos.
Congratulations to Abigail Vieregg
October 27, 2022
Abigail Vieregg received a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative Award for instrumentation development to advance the detection of the highest energy neutrinos.
KICP Senior Member Marcela Carena has been named a DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow
October 26, 2022
Dr. Marcela Carena of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory – Honored “for leadership and influential contributions to particle physics, including novel theoretical ideas and strategies for HEP experiments related to the Higgs boson, dark matter and electroweak baryogenesis, and promoting Latin American participation in DOE-hosted experiments.”
Abigail Vieregg has been appointed the David N. Schramm Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
August 1, 2022
Abigail Vieregg, Professor in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, and the EFI, has been appointed the David N. Schramm Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics for a term beginning August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025.
Joshua A. Frieman, Chair of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
July 1, 2022
The appointment of Joshua A. Frieman, Professor, as chair of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, effective July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025.
Congratulations to Edward “Rocky” Kolb
May 24, 2022
Edward "Rocky" Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the David N. Schramm Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, receives a Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service on June 4.
Congratulations to Joshua A. Frieman
May 3, 2022
Josh Frieman elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Prof. Wendy Freedman named speaker for UChicago’s 2022 Convocation celebration, UChicago News
March 7, 2022
Prof. Wendy Freedman will address this year’s graduating class on the Main Quad. A renowned cosmologist, Freedman led the team that made a landmark measurement in 2001 of the Hubble constant—the rate at which the universe is expanding.
“Dietrich Müller, renowned cosmic ray scientist, 1936-2021”, by Louise Lerner, UChicago News
January 18, 2022
Prof. Emeritus Dietrich Müller, a renowned experimental physicist at the University of Chicago who spent half a century building instruments to study energetic particles from space called cosmic rays, died Dec. 22 at the age of 85.
NASA gives go-ahead for $20M multi-institution balloon experiment led by UChicago scientists
January 6, 2022
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.