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CIERA’s Sasha Tchekhovskoy to Utilize the Fastest Academic Supercomputer in the World
The Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that the National Science Foundation has approved allocations of supercomputing time on Frontera to 49 science projects for...
Beverly Lowell Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Second-year CIERA graduate student Beverly Lowell was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship for the upcoming year and received the Illinois Space...
Seven New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
Welcome New Postdoctoral Researchers! We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that...
Prof. Margutti Receives NSF Honor for Junior Faculty
Congratulations to CIERA’s Raffaella Margutti, recipient of a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Margutti studies...
Coronavirus/COVID-19 Update
The CIERA Offices on Floor 8 of 1800 Sherman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois are closed and inaccessible. CIERA researchers, educators, students, and staff are...
Danat Issa Awarded Frontera Computational Science Fellowship
CIERA graduate student Danat Issa was awarded the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship, a distinguished program that provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students...
Coronavirus/COVID-19 Update
CIERA is following guidelines from Northwestern University and the State of Illinois in order to take all precautions to prevent the spread of the...
The Sky is No Limit
New remote observatory compresses distances to connect Evanston and Hawaii, allowing Northwestern researchers to venture boldly into space without leaving home “Northwestern astronomers have...
Proposal Workshop for New Observatory Held at CIERA
On February 6, nearly a dozen CIERA postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and faculty took part in a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Proposal Workshop...
An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein just got up to 50% more powerful by squeezing light
“That’s thanks to a new light-squeezing instrument that researchers installed in the experiment’s main machine: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Its Italian counterpart, Virgo,...
First Discoveries by the Young Supernova Experiment
The Northwestern-based YSE team is excited to announce the start of the Young Supernova Experiment, a new transient discovery survey using the Pan-STARRS1...