Giles Novak Appointed as the New Faculty Director of the Tech Instrument Shop
CIERA Professor Giles Novak has been appointed as the new faculty director of the Tech Instrument Shop. Novak will start the new three-year position beginning in...
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CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Daryl Haggard Featured in Physics Central Podcast
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Daryl Haggard was interviewed along with Andrea Ghez and Stefan Gillessen for a Physics Central podcast. The podcast, titled Hungry Hungry Black Holes, talks about the black hole at...
Josh Bloom Presents CIERA Spring Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Machine Learning in Astronomy
CIERA was happy to host Professor Josh Bloom for the Spring Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Wednesday May 7th. Josh is from the Astronomy Department at the University...
Ben Farr Successfully Defends Thesis
Congratulations to Ben Farr of successfully defending his thesis on Monday May 4th. Ben was a Graduate student with Vicky Kalogera’s group and his thesis...
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera Featured in Weinberg Magazine Article Encouraging Women in STEM Fields
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera was featured in a Weinberg Magazine article entitled “Staying in Stem – Encouraging Women to Persist in Math and Science”. The article interviews female...
Postdoctoral Fellow Haggard talks with Representatives on Capitol Hill as part of HEAD Executive Committee
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Daryl Haggard, who is also serving on the Executive Committee of the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society, joined fellow...
Undergraduate Student Scotty Coughlin Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Scotty Coughlin, an undergraduate student who has been working in Vicky Kalogera’s LIGO group, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Starting in September 2014, the award will...
CIERA Sponsors Poster Session at Northwestern’s Computational Research Day
On Tuesday, April 22nd, computational researchers from across Northwestern met for Computational Research Day: a series of talks, panel discussions, and a poster session, which all...
CIERA Mentored High-School Student wins First Place in Space Science at the Northeastern Science and Engineering Fair
High school student Sara Anjum recently won first place in the Space Science category at the Northeastern Science and Engineering Fair held in Cleveland,...
“LIGO — A Passion for Understanding” Documentary Released April 15th
You can now get an inside look at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) team and instrument with the, documentary, “LIGO — A Passion...
Total Lunar Eclipse April 15th
During the pre-dawn hours of April 15, 2014, Evanston had its first chance to view a total lunar eclipse since December 2010. Despite inclement...
CIERA Fifth Annual Public Lecture: Prof. Maria Zuber Introduces the “New Moon”
Dr. Maria Zuber, Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research at MIT, gave CIERA’s Fifth Public Lecture on Thursday, April 3rd. She...