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...
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Experts on X-Ray Optics Meet at Northwestern, Discuss Next-Generation Space Telescopes
On Friday, August 22nd, CIERA hosted a meeting of some of the country’s leading experts in fabricating X-ray mirrors for space-based X-ray telescopes. Organized...
National Science Foundation Agrees to Fund LSST Project
The National Science Foundation (NSF) agreed on Friday, August 1st, to fund the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in constructing the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST),...
CIERA’s 2014 Summer Student Researchers
For the summer of 2014, 31 summer stundents worked closely with researchers at CIERA. Five of these students were funded through an educational grant...
CIERA Hosts Galaxy Formation Workshop
On July 24-26, CIERA hosted a workshop for the FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments) galaxy formation simulation project. This workshop, organized by Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, brought together...
Graduate Student Inspires Students Through Art
CIERA graduate student Niharika Sravan volunteered at the City of Evanston’s Camp Kaleidoscope on July 18. She worked on a constellation project with a group...
The Science that Shared Buzz Aldrin’s Space Selfie
This week, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin revealed to CNN that he had one more first under his belt: he took the first ever space...
CIERA Director Elected Trustee of Aspen Center for Physics
CIERA Director, Prof. Vicky Kalogera, was elected as the astrophysics trustee, among only nine trustees, of the NSF-funded Aspen Center for Physics on July 9. The ACP is...
CIERA’s Shane Larson Called In As Expert On “Cityhenge”
Research Associate Professor Shane Larson was quoted in USA Today’s July 7 article about “Cityhenge”, a phenomena where the sun lines up with the grid system of...
Six CIERA Students Awarded Illinois Space Grant Consortium Scholarships to Advance their Research
The Illinois Space Grant Consortium awarded six CIERA students with scholarships for the 2014-2015 school year. Graduate students Katie Breivik, who studies under Prof. Shane Larson, and...
CIERA Postdoc Explores Black Holes in BBC Magazine Feature
CIERA postdoc Daryl Haggard’s research about the growth of supermassive black holes is featured in the July 2014 issue of BBC’s Sky at Night Magazine, scheduled...
CIERA Graduate Student Carl Rodriguez Produces Astronomy Film for Jackson Hole Science Media Film Festival
CIERA Graduate Student Carl Rodriguez recently produced a film entitled “Black Holes & Star Clusters” for the short film category at the Jackson Hole...