Phone: (773)702-8206
Location: LASR 228
Email: olintokicp.uchicago.edu
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Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: The Highest Energy Particles ever observed!
Magnetic Fields in the Universe: from the Early Universe to the present
Neutron Stars and Strange Stars: the densest stars in the Universe
Inflation and other Phase Transitions: The Beginning of It All!

Ongoing Scientific Projects:

• Pierre Auger Observatory (AUGER)

• Angela Olinto's cosmic needle in a haystack, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Space station to host new cosmic ray telescope: UChicago's Angela Olinto leads U.S. collaboration on international project, The University of Chicago News Office
• University of Chicago joins the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, KICP News
• Pizza with Professors, KICP News
• Four on faculty elected fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science, The University of Chicago News Office
• Angela Olinto becomes the new Chair of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, KICP News
• Baby pulsars spawn universe's most energetic particles, New Scientist
• The proposal for our new Physics Frontier Center -- Pushing Cosmology to the Edge -- has been funded by NSF, KICP News
• Award-winning teachers find the unexpected, The University of Chicago News Office
• Congratulations to Prof. Angela Olinto!, KICP News
• Lives of Music and Physics, Lovingly Bound, NYTimes.com
• Colorado Bound: The Pierre Auger Project, Kavli Foundation Newsletter
• A Century-Old Mystery Unveiled: The Most Energetic Particles to Reach Earth Come From Outside the Milky Way, KICP Highlight
• Search for the neutralino, Chicago Sun-Times

• PhD Thesis Defense, Christopher Williams: "A Search For Microwave Emission From Cosmic Ray Air Showers"
• KICP Workshop, KICP workshop: "Imaging the Extreme Universe: Solid-state cameras for Astroparticle Physics"
• KICP Event, Astronomy Open House
• KICP Event, SWIP/KICP Pizza with Professors
• PhD Thesis Defense, Melanie Simet: "Galaxy cluster center detection methods with weak lensing"
• KICP Workshop, 9th International Conference "Identification of Dark Matter" (organizer)
• KICP Workshop, "The 4th Neutrino" workshop (organizer)
• KICP Workshop, US JEM-EUSO Working Group Meeting (organizer)
• PhD Thesis Defense, Florin Ionita: "A Study of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Composition and Hadronic Interactions with Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory"
• KICP Workshop, PFC3 Collaboration Meeting
• KICP Workshop, 19th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (organizer)
• PhD Thesis Defense, Alison Brizius, "Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Polarization Anisotropy at 40 GHz and 90 GHz with the Q/U Imaging Experiment (QUIET)"
• KICP Lecture, Dean Lecture: Angela Olinto, "Do Black Holes Play Ball? - Cosmic Messengers of the High Energy Universe "
• PhD Thesis Defense, Tonia Venters, "Cascades of VHE Gamma Rays from Blazars and the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background" (PhD advisor)
• KICP Talk, Cafe Scientifique: Angela Olinto, "Chasing Cosmic Bullets"
• PhD Thesis Defense, Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, "Revealing dark matter substructure with anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background" (PhD advisor)
• Workshop, Astroparticle Physics Symposium: "The High Energy Frontier" (organizer)
• PhD Thesis Defense, Nicolas G. Busca, "The ultra high energy cosmic ray flux from the southern Pierre Auger Observatory data" (PhD advisor)
• KICP Workshop, Auger South Analysis Meeting (organizer)
• KICP Seminar, Auger North Wrap-Up Session & Picnic
• KICP Workshop, Auger North Design Workshop (organizer)
• PhD Thesis Defense, Eun-Joo Ahn, "Early stages of ultra high energy cosmic ray air showers as a diagnostic of exotic primaries" (PhD advisor)
• KICP Workshop, New Views of the Universe, Kavli Institute Inaugural Symposium in memory of David Schramm (organizer)
• KICP Cosmology Course, "Big Bang & Beyond, 21st Century Cosmology", Cosmology Short Course (course instructor)
• KICP Cosmology Course, "Extreme Astronomy @ the Planetarium", Cosmology Short Course (course instructor)
• KICP Cosmology Course, "Origin of Structure in the Universe", Cosmology Short Course (course instructor)
• KICP Workshop, Predictions of Cold Dark Matter models on small scales: current status and future tests (organizer)
• KICP Seminar, Puzzling Cosmic Rays at the Highest Energies

Past Students

GRADUATE: Fabian Schmidt (2010), Tonia Venters (2009), Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins (2008), Nicolas G. Busca (2007), Eun-Joo Ahn (2006), Argyro Tasitsiomi (2005)

UNDERGRADUATE: Joshua Banks (2007), Carolyn Brown (2007), Tien-Tien Yu (2007)

• Conferences, Workshops and Visitors committee (Co-Chair)
• Appointments committee
• PFC Executive committee
• LASR Space committee

2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002


Latest Journal Publications

1. "Sensitivity of JEM-EUSO to Ensemble Fluctuations in the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Flux", arXiv:1306.0910 (Jun 2013)
2. "Signatures of pulsars in the light curves of newly formed supernova remnants", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Advance Access. 9 pp (May 2013)
3. "An evaluation of the exposure in nadir observation of the JEM-EUSO mission", Astroparticle Physics, Volume 44, p. 76-90 (Apr 2013)
4. "Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray nuclei from extragalactic pulsars and the effect of their Galactic counterparts", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 03, article id. 010, pp. (2013) (Mar 2013)
5. "Constraints on the Origin of Cosmic Rays above 1018 eV from Large-scale Anisotropy Searches in Data of the Pierre Auger Observatory", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 762, Issue 1, article id. L13, 8 pp. (2013) (Jan 2013)
6. "A Search for Point Sources of EeV Neutrons", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 760, Issue 2, article id. 148, 11 pp. (2012) (Dec 2012)
7. "Large-scale Distribution of Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays Detected Above 1018 eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 203, Issue 2, article id. 34, 20 pp. (2012) (Dec 2012)
8. "Results of a self-triggered prototype system for radio-detection of extensive air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory", Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 7, Issue 11, pp. P11023 (2012) (Nov 2012)
9. "Antennas for the detection of radio emission pulses from cosmic-ray induced air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory", Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 7, Issue 10, pp. P10011 (2012) (Oct 2012)
10. "Measurement of the Proton-Air Cross Section at s=57TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory", Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, Issue 6, id. 062002 (Aug 2012)
11. "Search for Point-like Sources of Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory and Improved Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Tau Neutrinos", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 755, Issue 1, article id. L4, 7 pp. (2012) (Aug 2012)
12. "Newly Born Pulsars as Sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 750, Issue 2, article id. 118, 16 pp. (2012) (May 2012)
13. "Erratum to "The Lateral Trigger Probability function for the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Showers detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory" [Astroparticle Physics 35 (2011) 266-276]", Astroparticle Physics, Volume 35, Issue 10, p. 681-684 (May 2012)
14. "Description of atmospheric conditions at the Pierre Auger Observatory using the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS)", Astroparticle Physics, Volume 35, Issue 9, p. 591-607 (Apr 2012)
15. "A search for anisotropy in the arrival directions of ultra high energy cosmic rays recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 04, id. 040 (2012) (Apr 2012)
16. "The JEM-EUSO Mission: Status and Prospects in 2011", arXiv:1204.5065 (Apr 2012)
17. "Summary Report of JEM-EUSO Workshop at KICP in Chicago", arXiv:1203.3451 (Mar 2012)
18. "AstroParticle Physics at the Highest Energies", arXiv:1202.0355 (Feb 2012)
19. "Publisher's Note: Search for ultrahigh energy neutrinos in highly inclined events at the Pierre Auger Observatory [Phys. Rev. D 84, 122005 (2011)]", Physical Review D, vol. 85, Issue 2, id. 029902 (Jan 2012)
20. "Search for signatures of magnetically-induced alignment in the arrival directions measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory", Astroparticle Physics, Volume 35, Issue 6, p. 354-361 (Jan 2012)

Latest Conference Proceedings

1. "High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Newborn Pulsars", American Physical Society, APS April Meeting 2013, April 13-16, 2013, abstract #L14.001 (Apr 2013)
2. "Ultra-high energy cosmic ray theory faces observational puzzles", CENTENARY SYMPOSIUM 2012: DISCOVERY OF COSMIC RAYS. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1516, pp. 207-211 (2013) (Feb 2013)
3. "Pulsars, supernovae, and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays", SF2A-2012: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Eds.: S. Boissier, P. de Laverny, N. Nardetto, R. Samadi, D. Valls-Gabaud and H. Wozniak, pp.583-586 (Dec 2012)
4. "Cosmic rays at the highest energies", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 375, Issue 5, id. 052001 (2012) (Jul 2012)
5. "Newly-born Pulsars as Sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays", American Physical Society, APS April Meeting 2012, March 31-Apr 3, 2012, abstract #T7.009 (Mar 2012)
6. "The JEM-EUSO Mission", American Physical Society, APS April Meeting 2012, March 31-Apr 3, 2012, abstract #W7.006 (Mar 2012)
7. "Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos", Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, Volume 217, Issue 1, p. 231-236 (Aug 2011)
8. "Implications of the cosmic ray spectrum for the mass composition at the highest energies", SF2A-2008: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics Eds.: C. Charbonnel, F. Combes and R. Samadi. Available online at http://proc.sf2a.asso.fr, p.193 (Nov 2008)
9. "Horizons and Anisotropies of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays", Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference. July 3 - 11, 2007, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. Edited by Rogelio Caballero, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Lukas Nellen, Federico A. Sánchez, José F. Valdés-Galicia. Universidad Na
10. "Signatures of the extragalactic cosmic-ray source composition from spectrum and shower depth measurements", Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference. July 3 - 11, 2007, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. Edited by Rogelio Caballero, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Lukas Nellen, Federico A. Sánchez, José F. Valdés-Galicia. Universidad Na

Current & Future Visitors:

1. George Fuller, University of California, San Diego
2. Kumiko Kotera, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

Past Visitors:

1. Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, Caltech (2013)
2. James Adams, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville (2012)
3. Ivone Albuquerque, University of São Paulo (2012)
4. Luis Anchordoqui, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2012)
5. Pasquale Blasi, INAF/Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (2012)
6. Mark Christl, NASA/MSFC (2012)
7. Valerie Connaughton, UAH (2012)
8. Steven Csorna, Vanderbilt University (2012)
9. Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, RIKEN (2012)
10. Kumiko Kotera, Caltech/IAP (2012)
11. Reina Maruyama, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2012)
12. Tonia Venters, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center (2012)
13. Lawrence Wiencke, Colorado School of Mins (2012)
14. Pasquale Blasi, INAF/Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (2011)
15. Federico Fraschetti, University of Arizona (2011)
16. Kumiko Kotera, California Institute of Technology (2011)
17. Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (2010)
18. Denis Allard, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Universite de Paris 7 (2009)
19. Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (2009)
20. Guillaume Decerprit, Laboratoire APC - Universite de Paris 7 (2009)
21. Stefan Funk, KIPAC, Stanford University (2009)
22. Dan Hooper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2009)
23. Alexander Kusenko, University of California, Los Angeles (2009)
24. Teresa Montaruli, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2009)
25. Risa Wechsler, KIPAC, Stanford University (2009)
26. Denis Allard, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie (2008)
27. Eric Aubourg, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris/Princeton University (2006)
28. Joao deMello Neto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2006)
29. Sandy Faber, University of California, Santa Cruz (2006)
30. Chung-Pei Ma, University of California, Berkeley (2006)
31. Teresa Montaruli, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2006)
32. Marta Volonteri, Northwestern University (2006)
33. Jim Beatty, Ohio State University (2005)
34. Daniel De Marco, Bartol Research Institute (2005)
35. Alan Watson, University of Leeds (2005)
36. Ivone Albuquerque, University of California, Berkeley (2003)
37. Peter Biermann, University (2003)
38. Neil Cornish, Montana State University (2003)
39. Fay Dowker, Queen Mary, University of London (2003)
40. Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale University (2003)
41. David Rusin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2003)
42. Deirdre Shoemaker, Cornell University (2003)
43. Paul Sommers, University of Utah (2003)
44. Roberto Aloisio, Gran Sasso Laboratory (2002)
45. Roberto Aloisio, INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory (2002)
46. Pijushpani Bhattacharjee, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (2002)
47. Pasquale Blasi, INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisica di Arcetri (2002)
48. Maria Teresa Dova, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (2002)
49. Steve Furlanetto, Harvard University (2002)
50. Gunter Sigl, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (2002)