American Astronomical Society to Lead WorldWide Telescope
The Council of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) voted to take on the leadership of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project at the AAS winter...
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CIERA Study Predicts Detection of More Merging Black Holes Than Previously Thought
CIERA’s Professor Fred Rasio, pictured far left, and Carl Rodriguez, Ph.D. student, are senior author and lead author, respectively, of an important new paper....
Immediate Opening for Graduate Student: CIERA Keck Foundation Grant
We have an immediate opening for a graduate student ready to work full time on a newly awarded W. M. Keck Foundation grant. For this...
CIERA Research Group Receives Time with Hubble Space Telescope
The research group of Claude-André Faucher-Giguère (GalForm @ NU) is part of a multi-institution team that has been awarded a large amount of time...
W.M. Keck Foundation Grant to NU Team Led by CIERA’s Hooman Mohseni and Melville P. Ulmer
Two members of CIERA, Hooman Mohseni and Mel Ulmer have, along with external collaborator Olivier Guyon of the Subaru Telescope, been awarded a grant...
CIERA’s Doug Roberts Creates First Video Abstract for an Astrophysical Journal Letters Article
CIERA faculty Doug Roberts has blazed a trail in the integration of visualization and astronomical publishing with the creation of the first video abstract...
CIERA’s Melville P. Ulmer Receives Funding from NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)
Professor Ulmer is now a two times over NIAC Fellow. His most recent NIAC award came in June 2015. As a NIAC Fellow, he will serve...
CIERA Co-Sponsors Computational Research Day Poster Session
Nothwestern University’s Research Computing Services celebrated the role of computation in research at Northwestern with their Second Annual Computational Research Day on Tuesday, April 14th, 2015; as part...
Professor Yusef-Zadeh and Colleagues See Evidence of Star Formation Near Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
CIERA-affiliated Professor Farhad Yusef-Zadeh has uncovered new evidence of star formation at the center of the Milky Way. In a paper published in April, Yusef-Zadeh...
CIERA Professors Lithwick and Motter Recognized in NU Research Annual Report
Two CIERA-affiliated professors were recognized in Northwestern University’s 2014 Research Report, released last week. Both Assistant Professor Yoram Lithwick and Professor Adilson Motter were featured in one-page profiles that...
LSST Project Accepts New Mirror Surfaces
The M3/M1 mirror surfaces were accepted as a critical component of the LSST or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project, this past week, according to the LSST...
CIERA Fellow Chatterjee helps show `Vulcan’ planets follow predictions of new theory
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Sourav Chatterjee and Jonathan C. Tan from University of Florida have published a study in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that show...