CIERA rings Cboe opening bell, returns as NASA Space Apps Chicago partner
Over the weekend of October 5 and 6, 2024, the Chicago chapter of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge returned for its second year,...
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Northwestern to lead $20 million National AI Research Institute in Astronomy
SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received a $20 million...
Prof Adam Miller receives DOE Early Career Award
Adam Miller will use the funding to explore the explosions of white dwarf stars Northwestern University astrophysicist Adam A. Miller has received a 2024 Early Career...
Fifth Code/Astro workshop cultivates open-source software engineering skills
From July 15 to 19, 2024, CIERA Professor Jason Wang and Postdoctoral Fellow Sarah Blunt led the fifth Code/Astro workshop, the second of the...
Sun’s magnetic field originates surprisingly close to the surface
New finding addresses a 400-year-old mystery, once explored by Galileo An international team of researchers, including Northwestern University engineers, is getting closer to solving...
CIERA Connections: Eve Chase on careers in the public sector
On April 15, 40 in-person and 13 remote attendees gathered to hear from Dr. Eve Chase, Northwestern alum and current data scientist. Dr. Chase’s journey...
Presenting talks and visualizations at the 2024 CoDEx Symposium
On April 2, 2024, Northwestern Information Technology (NUIT) held their annual CoDEx symposium, an all-day campus-wide showcase of computational and data-enabled research at Northwestern....
Northwestern launches data science/AI initiative
Steering Committee begins work to lead a University-wide effort to integrate and elevate Northwestern’s DS/AI strength From the social sciences to the STEM fields, disciplines...
Prof Mohseni named to National Academy of Inventors
On December 12, 2023, the National Academy of Inventors announced its 2023 Class of Fellows, comprised of 162 academic inventors. Three of these new...
Graduate student Lindsey Byrne featured in 2023 DOE CSGF magazine
Lindsey Byrne, a Northwestern graduate student studying galaxy formation and evolution, has been featured in and on the front cover of DEIXIS, the annually...
First supernova detected, confirmed, classified and shared by AI
New artificial intelligence tool removes humans from entire search, discovery process A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has...
CIERA hosts Chicago chapter of NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2023
Article by Marisa Guerra Echeverria for the Daily Northwestern Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics hosted the Chicago chapter of the NASA...