CIERA Hosts GNOME Data Analysis Bootcamp
In mid-August, CIERA welcomed ten researchers from a variety of institutions for a three-day bootcamp for the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic...
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The Legacy of Scientific Discovery – by Mike Zevin, LIGO Graduate Student
On the morning of February 11th 2016, people around the world congregated in conference rooms to watch a press conference that would change the...
LIGO Team Announces Second Gravitational-Wave Event
The new window onto the universe just opened a little bit wider. For the second time in history, an international team of scientists and...
‘Mosh Pits’ in Star Clusters a Likely Source of LIGO’s First Black Holes
In a new study, CIERA astrophysics show their theoretical predictions last year were correct: The historic merger of two massive black holes detected Sept....
CIERA Researchers Help Build a Far-Infrared Camera for SOFIA
An infrared camera called the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera-Plus (HAWC+) was installed on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, this spring. This is...
Major Prizes for LIGO Founders and 1,012 Contributors to Gravitational-Wave Discovery
Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and physicist, is giving $3 million as a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to honor the...
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Fissel Wins Prestigious Jansky Fellowship
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Fissel will be leaving Chicago for Virginia next year, as one of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO’s) Jansky fellows....
CIERA Contributes to the Historic First Detection of Gravitational Waves
On February 11, 2016 the National Science Foundation and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) announced that their scientists successfully, for the first time, directly...
CIERA’s Geller and Faucher-Giguère Contribute to New Study in “Nature”
Using observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, an international research team, including Aaron Geller and Claude-André Faucher-Giguère from Northwestern-CIERA and astronomers from the Kavli...
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...
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...