Craig Hogan

Craig Hogan is Director of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics and Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Hogan was Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Washington prior to moving to the University of Chicago and Fermilab in 2008.

Craig Hogan’s theoretical work has encompassed many areas of astrophysical cosmology: the origin of the elements, cosmic phase transitions and defects, magnetic fields, background radiation, cosmic reionization, gravitational lensing, cosmic structure and dark matter, global cosmological parameters, and gravitational waves. His research has been recognized by prizes including an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, and the Gruber Cosmology Prize, awarded to the High-z Supernova Search Team for the co-discovery of cosmic Dark Energy. Hogan’s recent scientific papers can be found on the preprint ArXiv.

His current work is developing a theory of a proposed new phenomenon, which he calls “holographic noise”, a fundamental, universal uncertainty in the fabric of spacetime, due to a fundamental bandwidth of reality at the Planck frequency, 10⁴⁴ bits per second. With colleagues at Fermilab, the University of Chicago, and other institutions, he is developing an experiment, the Fermilab Holometer, to measure this effect.

He has served at ACP as General Member, Trustee, and Scientific Secretary.

Learn more about Craig here.