CIERA hosts first LS4 collaboration meeting
From March 5–8, 2025, CIERA hosted the inaugural La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4) Team Meeting, bringing together over 50 researchers from across the...
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Prof. Stephon Alexander shares the jazz of physics at 2024 CIERA annual public lecture
On November 14, over 300 people packed Northwestern University’s Lutkin Hall to join Professor Stephon Alexander in a celebration of The Jazz of Physics...
LSST Catalyst Symposium, DSFP, and more held at CIERA
In Fall 2024, CIERA was thrilled to serve as host and local co-organizer for a slate of programming from the Discovery Alliance for the...
CIERA Connections: Elysse Longiotti on effective professional goal-setting
On October 14, the first CIERA Connections event of the 2024-2025 academic year drew 49 attendees to the CIERA Cafe to hear from Elysse...
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,...
22 undergraduates selected out of over 600 applications for REU and ISG summer research
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) 2024 In 2024, CIERA received a record 618 applications from across the country for its Research Experiences for Undergraduates...
REACH and RET 2024 foster cross-generational community
For the second consecutive year, the Research Experiences in Astronomy at CIERA for High School Students (REACH) program welcomed a record number of participants...
Celebrating women leaders in space and music with Ravinia Festival
At the end of July 2024, the renowned Ravinia Festival held this year’s installment of its annual Breaking Barriers Festival. The Breaking Barriers Festival is...
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...
CIERA Astronomer Evenings bring astronomy education to the public
Article by Nineth Kanieski Koso for The Daily Northwestern. Every Friday evening, Northwestern’s Dearborn Observatory holds free “Friday Nights at the Dearborn Observatory” where the...
CIERA Connections: From academia to quantitative research at IMC Trading
On May 22, 2024, 54 attendees gathered in the CIERA to hear the latest installment in the CIERA Connections series, “From Academic to Quantitative...
Postdoc Caitlin Witt tunes into the cosmic symphony at 3rd Annual CIERA Astronomy Night Out
On Friday, May 17, 2024, CIERA welcomed 170 in-person and 25 remote participants to its 3rd annual Astronomy Night Out, an evening dedicated to...