You’re Invited! Humans Needed to Help Find Star Clusters
Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they fall toward our galaxy,...
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IDEAS Fellows Contribute to New Seismology Citizen Science Project
“Seismology has a Big Data problem. Northwestern University seismologists think everyday citizens are the solution. This winter, a Northwestern team of students and faculty...
CIERA Astronomers Use Machine Learning to Classify 1.5 Billion Astronomical Sources
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new experiment attempting to identify everything that changes in the Northern night sky. ZTF measures these changes...
CIERA Hosts Dr. Beth Willman as Interdisciplinary Colloquium Speaker
Dr. Beth Willman, Deputy Director of the National Center for Optical-Infrared Astronomy, continued CIERA’s Interdisciplinary Colloquia series this November in presenting her talk, The...
CIERA Postdocs Advance to New Positions
Ben Nelson has accepted an Insight Data Science Fellowship in Silicon Valley. Insight is an intensive, seven week postdoctoral training fellowship that bridges the gap...
Brice Ménard Presents CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On June 4, Professor Brice Ménard from Johns Hopkins University presented How Do You Want Your Data: Hot or Cold? to an audience of...
Announcing CIERA’s 2018 Summer Undergraduate Researchers
For the summer of 2018, 38 summer students will work closely with researchers at CIERA. 22 of these students received funding through CIERA’s Research...
Computational Research Day: April 10, 2018
Computational Research Day is an annual all-day symposium which brings together Northwestern students, faculty, and researchers across fields and disciplines to share and promote...
CIERA Hosts Supernovae: The LSST Revolution Workshop
An international group of over 60 experts and young researchers working on all types of supernovae gathered May 31 – June 2 for Supernovae:...
Postdoctoral Fellow Dan Foreman-Mackey Presents CIERA Spring Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On March 16, CIERA welcomed Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow Dan Foreman-Mackey from the University of Washington as our Spring Interdisciplinary Colloquium speaker. The event was...
CIERA Contributes to Northwestern’s Computational Research Day
To celebrate and highlight advanced research computing at Northwestern, the fourth annual Computational Research Day was held on April 18th. This all-day, campus-wide event...
CIERA to Welcome New Postdocs in Fall 2017
We are pleased to announce that the following postdoctoral researchers will join CIERA in the Fall of 2017! Cliff Johnson studies star clusters in the...