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...
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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...
Katrin Heitmann Explores the Dark Universe at CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Physicist and computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Dr. Katrin Heitmann presented her talk, Exploring the Dark Universe, as part of CIERA’s Interdisciplinary Colloquium...
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...
CIERA Postdocs Advance to New Positions
Ben Nelson has accepted an Insight Data Science Fellowship in Silicon Valley. Insight is an intensive, seven week postdoctoral training fellowship that bridges the gap...
Brice Ménard Presents CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On June 4, Professor Brice Ménard from Johns Hopkins University presented How Do You Want Your Data: Hot or Cold? to an audience of...
Announcing CIERA’s 2018 Summer Undergraduate Researchers
For the summer of 2018, 38 summer students will work closely with researchers at CIERA. 22 of these students received funding through CIERA’s Research...