Physical Sciences Division

08.14.2017

UChicago astronomers and astrophysicists prepare for a total eclipse of the sun.

07.12.2017

Three mathematicians team up to advance Zimmer’s conjecture. Yes, that Zimmer. 

05.31.2017

A mixture of theory and practice helps statistician Rina Foygel Barber, SM’09, PhD’12, optimize her results.

Spring/17

How Ken Ono, AB’89, found life in and outside of math.

02.27.2017

What you need to know about the seven newly discovered Earth-sized exoplanets.
02.20.2017

Dresselhaus, PhD’59, was a model for women and scientists everywhere.

12.21.16

Professor Wendy Freedman applies astrophysics expertise to the Latke-Hamantash Debate.

Fall/16

New computer science chair Michael Franklin discusses the past, present, and future of computation.

Fall/16

The Physics Research Center will unite theorists and experimentalists for the first time in half a century.

Fall/16

Former Argonne director; UChicago VP of research, trustee, and now representative on the Giant Magellan Telescope board; physicist; and retiring art school president Walter E. Massey enters a new phase.

Fall/16

Nobelist James Cronin twice expanded our sense of the possible, first in particle physics and then in astronomical observation.