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We are pleased to welcome 4 new KICP fellows this fall!

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".

New data on the cosmic microwave background released from upgrade with 10 times more detectors

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  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”.

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2017

For six years, the Dark Energy Survey catalogued the night sky with this telescope in Chile.

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

PhD in Physics, Colorado School of Mines, 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.

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."
 

Instruments would help us understand beginning, history, makeup of the universe

Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellow
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago

Ph.D., MIT, 2019

Brinson Fellow, University of Chicago