Proposal Workshop for New Observatory Held at CIERA
On February 6, nearly a dozen CIERA postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and faculty took part in a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Proposal Workshop...
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New Year, New CIERA Open House Event
CIERA kicked off the new year by welcoming over 100 people to an open house to learn more about the center while...
IDEAS Trainees Attend the Grace Hopper Celebration 2019
This past week the Grace Hopper Celebration 2019, the world’s largest gathering of women in technology, took place in Orlando. The Grace Hopper Celebration...
IDEAS & CIERA Host NSF Research Traineeship National Meeting
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) Nearly 300 graduate students, faculty, and professionals (evaluators and staff) from more than 90 programs and 60 institutions attended the...
Observational Astronomers Gather for ‘Hot-wiring the Transient Universe VI’
An international group of over 90 experts and early-career researchers gathered August 19 – 22 for Hot-wiring the Transient Universe VI. Hosted by scientific...
Monica Gallegos Garcia Wins Ford Foundation Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Monica Gallegos Garcia was awarded a fellowship within the distinguished Ford Foundation Fellowship Program, administered by...
You’re Invited! Humans Needed to Help Find Star Clusters
Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they fall toward our galaxy,...
Student-led Data Expeditions with “Vault”
In high school, CIERA physics and astronomy graduate student Zachary Hafen didn’t necessarily find science interesting. Intrigued by its open-ended nature, he planned to...
IDEAS Fellows Contribute to New Seismology Citizen Science Project
“Seismology has a Big Data problem. Northwestern University seismologists think everyday citizens are the solution. This winter, a Northwestern team of students and faculty...
CIERA Astronomers Use Machine Learning to Classify 1.5 Billion Astronomical Sources
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new experiment attempting to identify everything that changes in the Northern night sky. ZTF measures these changes...
Sasha Tchekhovskoy Receives High-Performance Computing Award
Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy was granted the highly-competitive 2019 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award for his research proposal,Simulating Neutron...
CIERA Hosts Dr. Beth Willman as Interdisciplinary Colloquium Speaker
Dr. Beth Willman, Deputy Director of the National Center for Optical-Infrared Astronomy, continued CIERA’s Interdisciplinary Colloquia series this November in presenting her talk, The...