2021
Welcome to our Incoming Grad students!
September 17, 2021

The UChicago Physics Department welcomes this year's incoming graduate students.
UChicago scientist Young-Kee Kim elected to presidency of the American Physical Society
September 17, 2021

Prof. Young-Kee Kim, an eminent experimental physicist at the University of Chicago, has been elected future president of the American Physical Society. She will assume the position in 2024, when she will become the ninth UChicago scientist to do so.
Kaeli Hughes awarded 2021 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics
September 9, 2021

The Dr. Pliny A. and Margaret H. Price Prize recognizes research excellence and exceptional promise in areas related to CCAPP initiatives. Two recipients are hosted by CCAPP for a week, during which they give a Price Prize seminar on their research, establish long-term collaborative relationships, and receive a $2,000 honorarium.
Kaeli Hughes' research focuses on the radio detection of astrophysical neutrinos above 10 PeV.
Leading Xenon Researchers unite to build next-generation Dark Matter Detector
July 20, 2021

Grandi in one of the final phases of XENONnT Time Projection Chamber assembly. The next generation detector is expected to feature an active volume from 5 to 10 times larger.
UChicago scientists harness molecules into single quantum state
May 1, 2021

Researchers have big ideas for the potential of quantum technology which all depend on a major technological feat: being able to build and control systems of quantum particles, which are among the smallest objects in the universe.
That goal is now a step closer with the publication of a new method by University of Chicago scientists. Published April 28 in Nature, the paper shows how to bring multiple molecules at once into a single quantum state.
Graduate Student Ihar Lobach: Using Fluctuations to Measure Beam Properties
April 1, 2021

Scientists planning future particle accelerators and synchrotron light sources strive for tighter, more powerful electron beams. But as beams get narrower, it becomes harder to measure important properties. Now, Ihar Lobach of the University of Chicago and colleagues have demonstrated a new way to measure a beam’s vertical emittance more precisely than existing methods.
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UChicago Physicist William Irvine selected for $2 million Brown Investigator Award
March 13, 2021

The award, inaugurated this year and recognizing curiosity-driven basic research in chemistry and physics, supports the investigators’ research with $2 million over five years to their respective universities. Irvine, who researches fundamental problems in fluid dynamics and condensed matter, is one of two scientists chosen.
Roger Hildebrand, Manhattan Project veteran and ‘giant’ of physics and astrophysics, 1922-2021
January 31, 2021

Prof. Emeritus Roger Hildebrand, who worked on the Manhattan Project as an undergraduate before conducting pioneering work in particle physics and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, died Jan. 21. He was 98.
PUEO Selected by NASA for Pioneers Program
January 8, 2021

NASA has chosen four small-scale astrophysics missions for further concept development in a new program called Pioneers.
PUEO is a balloon mission designed to launch from Antarctica that will detect signals from ultra-high energy neutrinos. The principal investigator is Abigail Vieregg of the University of Chicago.
2020
Michel Fruchart Receives Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
December 21, 2020

Michel Fruchart has been named one of four recipients of the 2020-2021 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, which recognizes outstanding postdoctoral researchers. He was nominated by his supervisor, Vincenzo Vitelli, and will be recieve a $10,000 prize.
Search of a lifetime’ for supersymmetric particles at CERN
December 8, 2020

A team of researchers at the University of Chicago recently embarked on the search of a lifetime—or rather, a search for the lifetime of long-lived supersymmetric particles, proposed particles that could explain quirks of the universe.
Pilot Tutoring Program Funded by the College Innovation Fund
September 30, 2020

The Department of Physics will be launching a pilot tutoring program beginning the second week of the quarter. The program, which is funded by the College Innovation Fund, will focus on fundamental math and physics skills needed for introductory physics.
University of Chicago to award Charles Kane an honorary degree at 2021 Convocation
July 31, 2020

The University of Chicago will present honorary degrees to six distinguished scholars at next year’s Convocation ceremony. Charles L. Kane, a theoretical physicist who received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1985 and who is known for his work characterizing quantum electronic states of matter, will receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science.
Linda Young, leader in X-ray sciences, pursues innovation, both in research and mentorship
July 13, 2020

Argonne physicist searches for new uses for X-ray lasers and ways to support junior scientists.
photo credit Kenneth Johnson
General and Physics GRE policy for the 2020-2021 application cycle
June 21, 2020

General and Physics GRE not accepted for 2020 UChicago Physics graduate school applications.