Vicky Kalogera Hosts Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss for 2019 Heilborn Lecture Series
“Rainer Weiss, who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the historic observation of gravitational waves, will deliver the Heilborn Lectures at...
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Sean Raymond on Solar System Formation at CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
The past decade of exoplanet observations has confirmed one of humanity’s worst fears: we are weird. Jupiter is the only planet in the solar...
CIERA’s Researchers Featured in Gizmodo Ahead of LIGO and Virgo’s Resumed Search for Gravitational Waves
“The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are set to resume their hunt for gravitational waves on April 1. This go-around, they’ll be even...
Eight New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Associates. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s...
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,...
CIERA Graduate Student Michael Zevin Research Featured in AAS Nova
“The dense, chaotic centers of star clusters may be a birthplace for binary pairs of black holes like those observed by the Laser Interferometer...
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...
Stefan Danilishin Discusses Enhancing Future Gravitational Wave Detectors at CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Recent detections of gravitational waves (GW) from colliding black hole binaries by LIGO and Virgo interferometers have not only ushered in the era of...
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...
Local Podcast “Inside the Skev” Explores CIERA Research & Outreach Programs
In his ‘get to know your neighbors’ podcast, real estate expert Aaron Masliansky highlights the people and organizations of the Skokie & Evanston communities....
“Astronomy Picture of the Day” Features Results from SOFIA’s HAWC+ Instrument, Developed by a Team including CIERA Astronomers
An Astrophysical Journal paper presenting data obtained with SOFIA’s HAWC+ camera was highlighted by being chosen for NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day” on...
CIERA Professor Wen-Fai Fong Interviewed by Science News
“When a pair of ultradense cores of dead stars smashed into one another, the collision shot a bright jet of charged subatomic particles through...