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...
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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...
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project Celebrates Successful Completion of its Unique Mirror
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is the #1 priority for the astronomical community and supported for construction by the National Science Foundation and...
Annual Jamboree Summarizes CIERA’s Diverse Research with Postdoc & Graduate Student Talks
Every year, before our annual Holiday Party, CIERA faculty, postdocs, graduate students and guests come together to hear brief presentations on the diverse research...
CIERA Fall Interdisciplinary Talk Highlights Computation in Plasma Astrophysics
CIERA faculty, postdocs, and students welcomed Princeton Professor Jim Stone for the start of our 5th year of Quarterly Interdisciplinary Colloquia on Tuesday, October...
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellows Geller & Hicks Win Awards for “Capturing the Beauty of Science”
Every year, Northwestern University’s Science in Society holds a competition to find the most beautiful science images from researchers all over campus. This year, that contest...
CIERA Postdoc Francesca Valsecchi and Colleagues Link Hot Super-Earths to Hot Jupiters
When astronomers started discovering planets around other stars, one of the biggest surprises was the discovery of many Jupiter-sized gas-giant planets orbiting extremely close...
New Issue of “LIGO Magazine” Celebrates Major Instrument Milestone
The fifth issue of LIGO Magazine is now available for download. This issue celebrates the major milestone of the first full lock being achieved. It...