The National Science Foundation has announced the formation of anew institute that will explore new ways to create and connect quantum computers and networks.Established with a$25 million,five-year NSF award,the new Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks(HQAN)includes the University of Chicago,the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.The institute,which will be headquartered at the University of Illinois’Quantum Information Science and Technology Center,will create new undergraduate and graduate training opportunities and includes partnerships with industry and government labs.It is one of only three Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes in the country.All three Midwestern research institutions are members of the Chicago Quantum Exchange,a hub to advance quantum science by connecting institutions and companies across the region. 查看详细>>

The boundaries between art,design,science and technology are disappearing in adigital world.Today,artists use algorithms,scientists rely on visualization and designers are often focused on helping people navigate new technologies.At the University of Chicago,the disciplines come together at the Media Arts,Data and Design Center,creating anew collaborative space for experimentation,discovery and impact.The MADD Center will support work by faculty,other academic appointees,students,staff and community partners through cutting-edge technologies.The 20,000-square-foot center in the John Crerar Library opened Feb.25.“Design,as afield,now encompasses the sum of human interactions with the devices,environments and communities that shape daily life,”said David J.Levin,Senior Advisor to the Provost for Arts.“The MADD Center gives the University of Chicago aspace to address these radical changes,assess their wide-ranging consequences,and comprehend the ways that perception,sensation and experience are being transformed.”At the MADD Center,there are opportunities to create,study and learn about critical technologies driving both culture and science,including video games,virtual and augmented reality,data visualization,and digital fabrication.The MADD Center brings together the College,Division of the Humanities,Division of the Physical Sciences,UChicago Arts and the UChicago Library.The MADD Center will host five resource labs:An expanded Computer Science Instructional Lab,providing hardware and software for training and education;The Hack Arts Lab,an open-access digital fabrication,prototyping and visualization facility;The new Weston Game Lab,offering expanded resources for the study,play and development of analog,electronic,virtual and online games;The Research Computing Center Visualization Lab in the Crerar Library’s Kathleen A.Zar Room,providing new data visualization technology;The UChicago Library’s new GIS Hub,enabling geospatial research and learning activities by providing access to geographical information systems software and hardware and an expert GIS and maps librarian who offers consultations and training. 查看详细>>

UChicago partners with center to establish city as hub for design of high-tech materials After spending the past five years solidifying Chicago as ahub for high-tech materials innovation,the second phase of the Chicago-based Center for Hierarchical Materials Design has been selected for funding.The National Institute of Standards and Technology granted the multi-institutional,Chicago-based center an additional$25 million over the next five years.CHiMaD is hosted by Northwestern University,with additional partners that include the University of Chicago,Argonne National Laboratory,QuesTek Innovations and ASM Materials Education Foundation.NIST is also amajor collaborator with more than 50 investigators involved in CHiMaD research.CHiMaD’s mission is to develop anew generation of computational tools,databases and experimental techniques that will enable the design of novel materials to address major societal challenges.The center is also transferring these tools and techniques to industry as well as training the next generation of materials innovators.“CHiMaD brings together the intellectual heft of two major universities in the area of materials design innovation—a national laboratory with deep expertise in materials and advanced computing,a startup company at the forefront of computational materials design,and the processing,characterization and development prowess of NIST,”said Juan de Pablo,the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering and the Vice President for National Laboratories at the University of Chicago,who is one of the center’s three co-directors.In his pioneering research work at UChicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering,de Pablo helps develop many of the advanced computational algorithms and methods that are used to simulate the behavior of materials—from molecular to macroscopic length scales.He considers CHiMad aone-of-a-kind center.“By forming meaningful partnerships with leading companies that rely on fast design cycles to bring products to market at an accelerated pace,CHiMaD has established itself as anational and international thought center for materials innovation at the forefront of technology,”he added.“The next phase of CHiMaD promises to result in exciting new discoveries that will rapidly find their way in to products.”CHiMaD works to advance the national Materials Genome Initiative,which aims to accelerate the pace of new materials discovery by combining theoretical,computational and experimental science. 查看详细>>

NIH taps Chicago universities for center on environmental health.Sep 27,2017 The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,part of the National Institutes of Health,has awarded$4 million over four years to an equal partnership of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicagoto establish an environmental health sciences center in the Chicago area.The center,called the Chicago Center for Health and Environment,will study and ultimately re... 查看详细>>