News: Research

2024

Congratulations to Dr. Wei Quan

March 8, 2024

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

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

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

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”.


Meet a new KICP senior member: Harley Katz

January 21, 2024

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

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

Discovery by UChicago astrophysicists may change our picture of how stars explode and elements are made


Meet new KICP associate fellow: George Filippatos

January 7, 2024

PhD in Physics, Colorado School of Mines, 2023


2023

Meet new KICP associate fellow: Bei Zhou

December 21, 2023

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.


Charles Mark Lewis won the 2024 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics

December 20, 2023

Citation: "For the development of techniques expanding the low-energy reach of new particle detector technologies, with applications in neutrino physics, dark matter searches, and the study of charged-lepton flavor violating modes of muon decay."
 


“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


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 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