Scientists Gather to Plan Flight of Balloon-borne Telescope
Beginning June 10, scientists from five institutions gathered at Northwestern for a week-long pre-flight planning meeting of BLAST-TNG. BLAST is a 5,000 pound balloon-borne...
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Most-detailed Simulations of Black Hole Solve Longstanding Mystery
“An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the...
What Next for Gravitational Wave Detection?
Researchers are using gravitational waves to better understand black holes. LIGO’s detectors are sensitive to stellar mass black holes up to 100 times the...
Database Celebrates the Presence of African American Women in Physics
Fewer than 100 African American women have received PhDs in physics. African American Women in Physics (AAWIP) lists their names and provides resources for...
Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère Named 2019 Scialog Fellow
The fourth-annual Scialog: Time Domain Astrophysics (TDA) conference was held May 9-12 in Tucson, Ariz., with 47 Scialog Fellows and eight discussion facilitators attending,...
Lindsey Byrne Awarded DOE Graduate Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Lindsey Byrne received a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). She will be...
Announcing CIERA’s 2019 Summer Undergraduate Researchers
For the summer of 2019, 37 summer students will work closely with researchers at CIERA. 23 of these students received funding through CIERA’s Research...
The Importance of Out-of-School STEM Learning: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Dennis Schatz
On May 29, Dennis Schatz presented, “Making Science Learning Lifelong, Lifewide and Lifedeep: What We Know About the Importance of Out-of-School (Informal) STEM...
Lakota Stellar STEM Weekend
Emboldened by the success and informed by the challenges of the September STEM weekend for seven Bad River Ojibwe girls hosted by Physics &...
The Challenges and Rewards of Studying Radio Pulsars: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Scott Ransom
Radio pulsars are nature’s near-perfect celestial clocks, and have repeatedly proven themselves to be extraordinary tool for astrophysicists. They have probed the most...
Erik Curiel on Inconsistent Definitions of a Black Hole
Black holes have become a central object for study in numerous fields of physics far beyond the field of classical general relativity. However, even...
LIGO on Lookout for 8 Sources of Gravitational Waves
“Seekers of gravitational waves are on a cosmic scavenger hunt. Since the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory turned on in 2015, physicists have caught...