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Evan has accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg. He will start his new position in the fall, do wish him well!

Daniel has accepted a position as an  Associate Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory . He will  start his new position in August, do wish him well.

Cosmologist discusses what happened after the Big Bang, ‘breaking’ the Standard Model of Physics

Ezquiaga and Holz use the statistics of past black-hole binary detections and predictions of the capabilities of current and future gravitational-wave detectors to estimate what’s in store for us in terms of far-side black holes.

He will be joining us in the fall from Harvard University. He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge.

Meet the KICP Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Patricio Gallardo.
He will be joining us in the fall from Cornell University, where he received his PhD in Physics and currently serves as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
Welcome to KICP, Patricio!

Meet the KICP Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anastasia Sokolenko.
She will be joining us in the fall from HEPHY (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Vienna. She received her PhD at the University of Oslo where she studied Theoretical Physics.
Welcome to KICP, Anastasia!

My research interests include a number of topics in cosmology. I have been involved in The Dark Energy Survey collaboration. I used DES data to develop my PhD. thesis work. I have been computing angular two point auto and cross correlation functions. Also, I have been developing with my collaborators methods to extract the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale relying on observable quantities only. I am interested in large-scale structure of the Universe, in galaxy-galaxy clustering and General Relativity. Moreover, I have a great interest in high energy physics, theoretical and experimental.

Jeff McMahon and his team have developed new techniques for working with curved lenses instead of flat silicon wafers for CMB telescope lenses.

For Dan Hooper, head of theoretical astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Chicago, solving these questions involves radically rethinking what we think we know about the universe’s very early history.
Interviewed by Richard Webb, Executive Editor, New Scientist at the Royal Institution, London in Feb 2020.

Citation: "Joshua Frieman (Fermilab / University of Chicago): For significant theoretical work on inflationary cosmology and dark energy and for pioneering contributions to optical survey science."

PUEO is a balloon mission designed to launch from Antarctica that will detect signals from ultra-high energy neutrinos, particles that contain valuable clues about the highest energy astrophysical processes, including the creation of black holes and neutron star mergers. Neutrinos travel across the universe undisturbed, carrying information about events billions of light years away. PUEO would be the most sensitive survey of cosmic ultra-high energy neutrinos ever conducted. The principal investigator is Abigail Vieregg of the University of Chicago.

UChicago scientist lays out how LIGO gravitational waves could be scrambled, yielding information.
“Gravitational waves are the perfect messenger to see these possible modifications of gravity, if they exist.”—Astrophysicist Jose María Ezquiaga

He has accepted a position as a Consultant at Bain & Company in Chicago, and in this capacity he will focus on strategy and management.

XENON1T data could be either evidence of new particle physics or unexpected contaminant.