Professor Zhenyu Ye and the experimental high energy nuclear physics group hosted a workshop at UIC dedicated to upgrades of the STAR detector that runs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven…
Graduate students Inga Bucinskaite and Jingyu Zhang were highlighted in Fermilab Today (9/19/14) for their work developing the stage 1 upgrade algorithms for the CMS level 1 calorimeter trigger. The algorithms will significantly…
Professor Olga Evdokimov has successfully led a bid to bring the most important conference of her field of high energy nuclear physics to Chicago in 2017. Professor Evdokimov will also co-chair this important…
The department of physics welcomes new faculty member Assistant Professor Hyowon Park to the Department and to UIC. Professor Park earned his PhD in computational condensed matter and materials physics at Rudgers and…
Inga Bucinskaite was highlighted in Fermilab Today (7/25/14) together with 10 other US graduate students for their role in a new publication in Nature on Higgs decays to tau pairs and b quarks.…
The publication Scientific American quotes Professor Rick Cavanaugh about ongoing experiments to characterize the Higgs boson, commenting on the excitement over the particle’s discovery and what it may mean for the future of…
Professor David Hofman joined other faculty from UIC, Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern and University of Chicago to discuss their research at Bar Louie. Professor Hofman talked about the “State of the Universe, Less Than a…
Physics postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yadav Pandit led an analysis published in Physical Review Letters 112, 162301 (2014) that ?found evidence consistent with a first-order phase transition from hadronic matter to the quark gluon…
On April 2, 2014, Professor Dirk Morr gave a Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) talk at UIC comparing the “futuristic” technology featured on the TV series Star Trek to what real…
Professor Dirk Morr was featured in an interview on the Chicago Tonight program talking about the real physics behind star trek and how science fiction can become science fact. You can view his…