LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time
Northwestern Now reported on June 1, 2017 that “One, two and now three historic waves have come from deep space.” The press release reads: “The Laser...
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CIERA Researchers Highlight Their Expertise in Seven Minutes or Less
On March 16, 2017, CIERA graduate students Paul Williams and Michael Zevin showcased their skills in public speaking at the bi-annual event: “Seven Minutes...
Professor Jeremy Kasdin Presents CIERA Winter Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On March 1, Princeton University’s N. Jeremy Kasdin presented, “Finding and Characterizing Earth 2.0: An Engineering and Astronomy Partnership” to an audience of approximately...
News from CIERA Professor Farhad Yusef-Zadeh on Star, Planet Formation in Milky Way
Ashley Yeager from ScienceNews.org writes, “Blobs of gas near the Milky Way’s center may be just the right mass to harbor young stars and...
Supernova News from CIERA Professor Raffaella Margutti
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a press release, NuSTAR Finds New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’, which begins: “We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl...
Postdocs & Graduate Students Present at Annual CIERA Research Jamboree
For the fourth year in December, CIERA faculty, postdocs, graduate students and guests gathered before the annual CIERA holiday party to hear short presentations...
Executive Director of LIGO Laboratory Presents CIERA Fall Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On December 1st and 2nd, Dave Reitze, the Executive Director of LIGO Laboratory at Caltech, visited Northwestern for a series of group meetings, a...
CIERA’s Mel Ulmer Leading Audacious Project to Unfurl World’s Largest Space Telescope
Roger Anderson for Northwestern Research News writes: Figuring out how to fit a 16-meter mirror into a four-meter hole was the easy part. Two...
Graduate Student Katie Breivik’s Paper Featured on AAS Nova
Graduate student Katie Breivik’s work has been featured on the site AASNova.org, which highlights some of the most interesting recent results being published in the...
CIERA’s Fellows at the Frontiers 2016: Astronomy Research on the Cutting-edge
Forty invited postdoctoral fellows gathered from around the U.S. and Canada from August 31 – September 2 for CIERA’s Fellows at the Frontiers 2016...
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...
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...