CIERA Researchers Highlight Their Expertise in Seven Minutes or Less
On December 6, 2017, CIERA graduate students Alex Gurvich and Michael Katz joined ten other presentors from seven different departments to showcase their skills...
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CIERA Astronomers Share Stories of Scientific Discovery at Neutron Star Merger Event
Professors Vicky Kalogera, Shane Larson, Raffaella Margutti and Wen-fai Fong welcomed an audience of about 200 for a science talk and moderated panel discussion...
Graduate Student Eve Chase Leads Data Analysis of New Gravitational Wave Detection
At 11:00pm on June 7, 2017, Eve Chase was preparing for a final exam when she received an email that LIGO, the tandem observatories...
CIERA Astronomers Help Detect Colliding Neutron Stars for the First Time
On October 16, 2017, scientists announced the first-ever observation of a binary neutron star inspiral and merger—this astronomical event will provide a powerful new...
CIERA’s Shane Larson Joins U.S. NASA LISA Study Team
CIERA Associate Director and Research Professor Shane Larson has been named to the NASA LISA Study Team. LISA, the “Laser Interferometer Space Antenna,” is...
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Gravitational-wave Scientists Barish, Thorne, and Weiss
Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rai (Rainer) Weiss received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics October 3rd for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector...
CIERA Researchers Contribute to Record-setting Gravitational Wave Detection
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Virgo collaboration announced today (Sept. 27) the first joint detection, made on August 14, of gravitational waves...
Sky & Telescope Features “Three Cosmic Chirps and Counting” by CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera
The September 2017 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine features an article by Vicky Kalogera which gives her personal and professional account of the...
CIERA Postdoc Fabio Antonini Finds that Many LIGO Sources Arise from Mergers at the Centers of Galaxies
The first direct observation of merging black holes by Advanced LIGO opened a new window to our Universe. The new set of data from...
Graduate Student Eve Chase Wins Best Poster Award at LSC-Virgo Meeting
At the LSC-Virgo September Meeting near Geneva, Switzerland, graduate student Eve Chase won the best poster award in the Data Analysis/Theory category. The meeting...
CIERA Welcomes New Faculty Members: Wen-Fai Fong & Sasha Tchekhovskoy
Northwestern University is in the midst of an astrophysics faculty expansion plan. With last year’s arrival of Raffaella Margutti, an expert in ‘transient phenomena’...
New Issue of “LIGO Magazine” Available
The eleventh issue of LIGO Magazine is now available for download. The issue focuses on LIGO’s third detection of two merging black holes during observation run,...