2024
Abigail Lee and Hanjue Zhu won the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
May 30, 2024
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CCAPP is proud to announce Abigail Lee (U. Chicago) and Hanjue Zhu (U. Chicago) as the winners of the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
Ava Polzin won the audience prize in UChicagoGRAD’s Thesis competition
May 21, 2024
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Ava Polzin, Astronomy and Astrophysics “The Smallest Pieces of the Puzzle: Using Dwarf Galaxies to Understand the Universe”
“NASA’s Chandra Notices the Galactic Center is Venting”, Chandra Press Release
May 10, 2024
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“We suspected that magnetic fields are acting as the walls of the chimney and that hot gas is traveling up through them, like smoke”, said Scott Mackey of the University of Chicago, who led the study. “Now we’ve discovered an exhaust vent near the top of the chimney.”
Congratulations to Dr. Zhuowen (Ben) Zhang
April 26, 2024
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Congratulations to Zhuowen (Ben) Zhang for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Forward modeling of cluster systematics for cluster cosmology".
Congratulations to Dr. Mandy Chen
April 23, 2024
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Congratulations to Mandy Chen for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Toward a Physical Understanding of the Dynamic Circumgalactic Medium"
Gabriel Hoshino was awarded the DOE’s Office of SCGSR Fellowship
April 23, 2024
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Gabriel Hoshino, PhD student, was awarded the DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship to work with Prof. David Miller, Andrew Sonnenschein, and Stefan Knirck on "Instrumentation for a Terahertz Reflector-Based Search for Axions and Dark Photon”
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Poh
April 22, 2024
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Congratulations to Jason Poh for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Strong Gravitational Lensing Science in the Era of Large Astronomical Surveys".
Congratulations to Dr. Maya Mallaby-Kay
April 12, 2024
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Congratulations to Maya Mallaby-Kay for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "Probing the Large Scale Structure of our Universe with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope".
Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Bryant
April 10, 2024
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Congratulations to Andrea Bryant for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on "HYPOTHETICAL ICY MOON SEISMIC PROFILES FOR COMPARISON TO FUTURE SEISMIC DATA"
Amanda Farah won the 2023 Blue Apple Prize
March 31, 2024
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Congratulations to the 2023 Blue Apple Prize winner, Amanda Farah!
Congratulations to Dr. Wei Quan
March 8, 2024
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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".
Congratulations to Dr. Jody Ti-Lin Chou
February 9, 2024
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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”.
Congratulations to Dr. Fei Xu
January 9, 2024
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Congratulations to Fei Xu for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation on “Peeking Into the Future of Dark Matter Searches”.
2023
Charles Mark Lewis won the 2024 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics
December 20, 2023
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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."
Congratulations to Dr. Jisheng Zhang
September 22, 2023
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Congratulations to Jisheng Zhang for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Thermal and Magnetic History of Rocky Exoplanets”.