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Physics Highlights February 28, 2019 Museum of Contemporary Art Navy Pier Eataly Art Institute Lake Aquarium Michigan Planetarium Field Museum My home DuSable Museum Museum of Science of African Smart Museum and Industry American History U.Chicago Oriental Institute Obama Center My home Obama’s Lake house Michigan Your hotel Physics You are here Museum of Science U.Chicago and Industry Obama Center Downtown Chicago The Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan Parks Concert halls Beach Sailing 5 ERC: Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics PRC (Physics Research Center) MCP (Michelson Center for Physics) • Enrico Fermi Institute • Kadanoff Theo. Phys. Center …. • Center for Bright Beams …MCP … …. KPTC: Physics teaching Physics interactions Geo Sciences ……. Computer GCIS: Sciences • James Franck Institute Main Quadrangle …Geo …. Sciences…. Eckhardt Michelson Center for Physics Research Center GCIS (Gordon Center) KPTC (Kersten) History of the Department KPTC 3rd floor KPTC 2rd floor History of the Department KPTC 1st floor (space telescopes) KPTC 1st floor Enrico Fermi Chicago Pile 1 Department of Physics and Research Institutes • U. Chicago prides itself on cross-disciplinary research – Enrico Fermi Institute (EFI) since 1940’s – James Franck Institute (JFI) since 1940’s – Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) – Institute for Biophysical Dynamics (IBD) – Chicago Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC) – Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics (KCPT) – Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) IBD – ….. Physics MRSEC KCTP JFI EFI KICP PME Current Research Research images KPTC 1st floor Clay Cordova (Fall 2019) Particle Physics w/ Intense Beams • study of neutrino oscillations • nature of neutrinos: are they Majorana or Dirac particles? • high-sensitivity search for rare K decays • Detector R&D work to expand the reach of current research + PME faculty David Awschalom Vincenzo Vitalli Cosmology • Studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation spectrum and anisotropy with ground and space-based detectors • Search for polarization in the cosmic background radiation • Measurements of the effect for clusters of galaxies • Measurements of intergalactic radiation fields • Nature of dark energy and connections to string theory and quantum gravity Quantum Science Department of Physics Institute for Molecular Engineering Department of Chemistry Connections to National Laboratories • The University of Chicago manages – two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories: • Argonne National Laboratory • Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Fermilab ~35 miles from UChicago U.Chicago Argonne National Lab ~20 miles from UChicago Connections to National Laboratories • The University of Chicago manages – two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories: • Argonne National Laboratory • Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) – Marine Biological Laboratory Building community • Weekly colloquium – Refreshments Colloquium Reception • Physics tea time – Tuesdays & Thursdays • Forget-the-year party (every December) – organized by 2nd years • Ping-pong tournaments – Professors vs. undergraduates – Professors vs. graduate students – Professors vs. Postdocs • First birthday parties Building community • Reception for graduating students (early June) • Reception at American Physics Society meeting – Alumni + Current members • Chicago Physics – Annual department newsletter • Honoring – Oct. 24: Annual Maria Goeppert-Mayer Lecture • 3rd lecture by Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics) – Oct. 25: Naming Michelson Center for Physics.
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