News: 2020

John E. Carlstrom, Chair and the Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, is a leading figure in the study of the cosmic microwave background—the light left over from the first few moments of the universe, has been named a 2020 AAAS Fellow.

I have worked extensively with both the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Dark Energy Survey(DES) collaborations in the past years, and I am currently the contact person for many of the projects that involve both collaborations. I am additionally the acting organizer for the joint telecons, and I am planning to continue serving as the bridge between the two collaborations.

My work over the past few years has focussed mainly on cluster scale physics from a theoretical and observational perspective.

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

The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) has secured $10 million in new funding through two gifts: a $5 million gift from an anonymous alumnus and his wife and a match of $5 million from The Kavli Foundation. The first gift will name the directorship of the Institute in memory of Prof. David N. Schramm, a legendary professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Chicago.

My principle research interest is gravitational lensing and observational cosmology. I am currently working with Professor Tommaso Treu on time-delay cosmography.

My research interests lie in Cosmology. So far, I have studied the early Universe in terms of primordial black holes (PBHs), gravitational waves (GWs), cosmic microwave background (CMB), and big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN).

Burcin is a lead member of several large-scale imaging surveys, and uses observations of small and faint (dwarf) galaxies to study the smallest dark matter halos, and how they get populated with stars.

I am a theoretical astrophysicist, working at the interface of astrophysics, cosmology, high energy theoretical physics, and particle physics.

I am a Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at UChicago, where I actively participate in the Survey Science group.

My research revolves around ways we can investigate the lives and deaths of stars using observations of gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of spacetime that emanate from extreme systems in the universe such as merging black holes and neutron stars.

Congratulations to Sam Passaglia for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "The Black Hole Window on Cosmic Inflation". Sam has accepted a postdoctoral position at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.

Congratulations to Philip Mansfield for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on "Why Do Dark Matter Halos Die Together? An Intergalactic Murder Mystery". Philip has received a position of a KIPAC fellow at Stanford University.

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

“Finding who you are, what you do best and what you enjoy doing will bring you in the right direction—in research, and more broadly, in life,” says Prof. Paolo Privitera. “For this reason, I do not rush the students to focus on a single big project when they start working with me.”