Roger Malina Discusses Hybrid Art-Sciences Practices at CIERA Spring Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Roger F. Malina shared the story of his career, including the strong influence of his father, who became a full-time artist following a successful...
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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...
Olivier Guyon Looks to Characterize Habitable Exoplanets: CIERA Winter Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Thanks to significant recent advances in high contrast imaging techniques, the next generation of space and ground telescopes will have the capability to image...
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...
Dennis Lehmkuhl Shares the History of Einstein’s Discoveries at CIERA Fall Interdisciplinary Colloquium
We are often told that General Relativity tells us that the gravitational field is nothing but an aspect of spacetime structure: gravitation supposedly is...
2015 Midwest Relativity Meeting Hosted by CIERA
October 1 – 3, 2015, CIERA hosted the Midwest Relativity Meeting (MRM) with over 100 participants from across North America, including some of the...
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...