Phone: (773)702-0160
Location: ERC 439
Email: whubackground.uchicago.edu
WWW: Web Site

Hu's research focuses on the theory and phenomenology of structure formation in the Universe as revealed in Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies, gravitational lensing, galaxy clustering and galaxy clusters.

Ongoing Scientific Projects:

• South Pole Telescope (SPT)

Past Students

GRADUATE: Sam Passaglia (2020), Pavel Motloch (2018), Chen He Heinrich (2017), Pierre Gratia (2015), Yin Li (2015), Vinicius Miranda (2015), Cora Dvorkin (2011), Simone Ferraro (2010), Michael J. Mortonson (2010), Marcos V. Lima (2008), Ignacy Sawicki (2007), Zhaoming Ma (2006), Takemi Okamoto (2004)

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Latest Journal Publications

1. "Distortions in the surface of last scattering", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 4, id.043502 (Aug 2019)
2. "Curvature Perturbations in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation", arXiv:1908.08785 (Aug 2019)
3. "Distortions in the Surface of Last Scattering", arXiv:1905.03923 (May 2019)
4. "Acoustic Dark Energy: Potential Conversion of the Hubble Tension", arXiv:1905.12618 (May 2019)
5. "Swampland conjectures and late-time cosmology", Physical Review D, Volume 99, Issue 8, id.083518 (Apr 2019)
6. "Concordance and discordance in cosmology", Physical Review D, Volume 99, Issue 4, id.043506 (Feb 2019)
7. "Phenomenology of modified gravity at recombination", Physical Review D, Volume 99, Issue 4, id.043514 (Feb 2019)
8. "Primordial black holes and local non-Gaussianity in canonical inflation", Physical Review D, Volume 99, Issue 4, id.043536 (Feb 2019)
9. "Lensing covariance on cut sky and SPT -P l a n c k lensing tensions", Physical Review D, Volume 99, Issue 2, id.023506 (Jan 2019)
10. "Does Planck 2015 polarization data favor high redshift reionization?", Physical Review D, Volume 98, Issue 6, id.063514 (Sep 2018)
11. "Inflationary versus reionization features from Planck 2015 data", Physical Review D, Volume 98, Issue 4, id.043518 (Aug 2018)
12. "Scalar bispectrum beyond slow-roll in the unified EFT of inflation", Physical Review D, Volume 98, Issue 2, id.023526 (Jul 2018)
13. "Scale-dependent bias and bispectrum in neutrino separate universe simulations", Physical Review D, Volume 97, Issue 12, id.123526 (Jun 2018)
14. "Tensions between direct measurements of the lens power spectrum from Planck data", Physical Review D, Volume 97, Issue 10, id.103536 (May 2018)
15. "Reconciling tensor and scalar observables in G-inflation", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 04, article id. 039 (2018) (Apr 2018)
16. "Neutrino mass priors for cosmology from random matrices", Physical Review D, Volume 97, Issue 4, id.043510 (Feb 2018)
17. "Partially acoustic dark matter cosmology and cosmological constraints", Physical Review D, Volume 96, Issue 10, id.103501 (Nov 2017)
18. "Inflationary features and shifts in cosmological parameters from Planck 2015 data", Physical Review D, Volume 96, Issue 8, id.083526 (Oct 2017)
19. "Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger", The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 848, Issue 2, article id. L12, 59 pp. (2017) (Oct 2017)
20. "Primordial black holes and slow-roll violation", Physical Review D, Volume 96, Issue 6, id.063503 (Sep 2017)

Latest Conference Proceedings

1. "Acceleration from Modified Gravity: Lessons from Worked Examples", Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, Volume 194, p. 230-238 (Oct 2009)
2. "Dark Energy Probes in Light of the CMB", Observing Dark Energy, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 339, Proceedings of a meeting held 18-20 March 2004 in Tucson, Arizona. Edited by Sidney C. Wolff and Tod R. Lauer. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2005., p.215 (Sep 2005)
3. "Dark Energy Constraints from Lensing Tomography with LSST", American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #108.16 (Dec 2004)
4. "The quasi-optical design of the QUaD Telescope", Z-Spec: a broadband millimeter-wave grating spectrometer: design, construction, and first cryogenic measurements. Edited by Bradford, C. Matt; Ade, Peter A. R.; Aguirre, James E.; Bock, James J.; Dragovan, Mark; Duband, Lionel; Earle, Lieko; Glenn, Jason
5. "Measuring the cosmic microwave background polarization with the QUaD experiment", Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Oschmann, Jacobus M., Jr. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5489, pp. 84-94 (2004) (Oct 2004)
6. "CMB Observables and Their Cosmological Implications 2002", THE EMERGENCE OF COSMIC STRUCTURE: Thirteenth Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 666, pp. 45-58 (2003) (May 2003)
7. "Deep lens survey", Survey and Other Telescope Technologies and Discoveries. Edited by Tyson, J. Anthony; Wolff, Sidney. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4836, pp. 73-82 (2002) (Dec 2002)

Past Visitors:

1. Daniel Grin, Haverford College (2019)
2. Hayato Motohashi, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University (2019)
3. Vinicius Miranda, Upenn (2017)
4. Lagos Macarena, Imperial College London (2016)
5. Vinicius Miranda, University of Pennsylvania (2016)
6. Emmanuel Schaan, Princeton University (2016)
7. Raphael Flauger, The University of Texas at Austin (2015)
8. Cora Dvorkin, Institute for Advanced Study (2014)
9. Eric Linder, LBL (2014)
10. David Spergel, Princeton University (2014)
11. Aurelien Benoit-Levy, University College London (2013)
12. Cora Dvorkin, Institute for Advanced Study (2013)
13. Daniel Grin, Institute for Advanced Study (2013)
14. Kurt Hinterbichler, Perimeter Institute (2013)
15. Marc Kamionkowski, JHU (2013)
16. Hayato Motohashi, University of Tokyo (2013)
17. Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University (2013)
18. Anthony Pullen, Jet Propulsion Lab (2013)
19. Ignacy Sawicki, ITP, Heidelberg (2013)
20. Shi Chun SU, DAMTP, University of Cambridge (2013)
21. Tobias Baldauf, University of Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics (2012)
22. John Johnson, California Institute of Technology (2012)
23. Kazuya Koyama, University of Portsmouth (2012)
24. Tobias Baldauf, University of Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics (2011)
25. Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (2011)
26. Laura Book, California Institute of Technology (2011)
27. Florian Kuhnel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munchen, Germany (2011)
28. Eric Linder, University of California, Berkeley (2011)
29. Godfrey Miller, University of Pennsylvania (2011)
30. Hayato Motohashi, University of Tokyo (2011)
31. Fabian Schmidt, California Institute of Technology (2011)
32. Yacine Ali-Haimoud, California Institute of Technology (2010)
33. Stephen Appleby, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (2010)
34. Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (2010)
35. Simeon Bird, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (2010)
36. Tommaso Giannantonio, University Munich (2010)
37. Hector Gil, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (2010)
38. Lucas Lombriser, University of Zurich (2010)
39. Tao Wang, Peking University (2010)
40. Guido D'Amico, SISSA (2009)
41. Roland de Putter, University of California, Berkeley (2009)
42. Amir Hajian, Princeton University (2009)
43. Hiranya Peiris, University of Cambridge (2009)
44. Hiranya Peiris, University of Cambridge (2008)
45. Mustafa Amin, Stanford University (2007)
46. Hiranya Peiris, University of Cambridge (2007)
47. Michael Schneider, University of California, Davis (2007)
48. Alessandra Silvestri, Syracuse University (2007)
49. Amol Upadhye, Princeton University (2007)
50. Gilbert Holder, McGill University (2006)
51. Tom Abel, Stanford University (2005)
52. Amy Barger, University of Wisconsin (2005)
53. Hsiao-Wen Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005)
54. Georgi Dvali, New York University (2005)
55. Edward Baltz, KIPAC, Stanford University (2004)
56. Joanne Cohn, University of California, Berkeley (2004)
57. Richard Ellis, California Institute of Technology (2004)
58. Andrew Hamilton, University of Colorado, Boulder (2004)
59. Jordi Miralda-Escude, Ohio State University (2004)
60. Uros Seljak, Princeton University (2004)
61. Naoshi Sugiyama, National Astronomical Observatory (2004)
62. Benjamin Wandelt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2004)
63. Martin White, University of California, Berkeley (2004)
64. Beth Willman, University of Washington (2004)
65. Michael Santos, California Institute of Technology (2003)
66. Rennan Barkana, Tel Aviv University (2002)
67. Joseph Hennawi, Princeton University (2002)
68. Eiichiro Komatsu, Princeton University (2002)
69. Matias Zaldarriaga, New York University (2002)
70. Eric Gawiser, University of California, San Diego (2001)
71. Ben Metcalf, University of California, Berkeley (2001)