The Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Congratulations to Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics student Megan Bedell for winning a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Megan Bedell is a first-year graduate student. Her current research projects include analyzing millimeter-wave observations of massive star-forming regions with Prof. Doyal Harper, and searching for exoplanets using the radial velocity technique with Prof. Jacob Bean.

Faculty position: The Department invites applications for a faculty position in experimental astrophysics and cosmology.
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Astronomy Colloquium: Infalling groups and galaxy evolution in the IMACS Cluster Building Survey, Alan Dressler, Carnegie Institution of Washington Observatories
May 8, 2013 | 3:00 pm | KPTC 106
Workshop: "Imaging the Extreme Universe: Solid-state cameras for Astroparticle Physics"
May 9 - 10, 2013 | Chicago, IL
KICP Seminar: Non-Gaussianity and the Adiabatic Limit, Joel Meyers, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
May 10, 2013 | 12:00 pm | LASR Conference Room
First Annual GMT Community Science Meeting: "Cosmology in the Era of Extremely Large Telescopes"
June 10 - 12, 2013 | University of Chicago's Gleacher Center, Chicago, IL
Workshop: "Galaxies within the Cosmic Web"
June 17 - 21, 2013 | Chicago, IL
KICP Summer School: Computational Cosmology
August 5 - 16, 2013 | Chicago, IL
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Alumni Award winners include Nobelist James Cronin
April 18, 2013 | The University of Chicago News Office
Rocky Kolb appointed next dean of Division of the Physical Sciences
April 12, 2013 | The University of Chicago News Office
Rocky Kolb has been appointed Dean of the Physical Sciences Division
April 11, 2013
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