Postdocs & Graduate Students Present at Annual CIERA Research Jamboree
For the fourth year in December, CIERA faculty, postdocs, graduate students and guests gathered before the annual CIERA holiday party to hear short presentations...
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Executive Director of LIGO Laboratory Presents CIERA Fall Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On December 1st and 2nd, Dave Reitze, the Executive Director of LIGO Laboratory at Caltech, visited Northwestern for a series of group meetings, a...
Audio Series on Northwestern Couples Features Vicky Kalogera and Fred Rasio
CIERA Director Vicky Kalogera and her spouse, Fred Rasio, are both faculty in Northwestern’s Physics & Astronomy Department. They recently participated in an audio...
Graduate Student Matthew Rickert Wins Reber Fellowship
Graduate student Matthew Rickert (advisor: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh) has won a Reber Fellowship from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). From the organization’s web site:...
CIERA’s Mel Ulmer Leading Audacious Project to Unfurl World’s Largest Space Telescope
Roger Anderson for Northwestern Research News writes: Figuring out how to fit a 16-meter mirror into a four-meter hole was the easy part. Two...
CIERA REU Students Present at PhysCon
Valerie Becker and Eryn Cangi, students from CIERA’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program, each presented research at this year’s Quadrennial Physics Congress (PhysCon). From...
Graduate Student Katie Breivik’s Paper Featured on AAS Nova
Graduate student Katie Breivik’s work has been featured on the site AASNova.org, which highlights some of the most interesting recent results being published in the...
Rapid Fire Research Kicks Off
On October 26, graduate student Mike Zevin hosted the inaugural Rapid Fire Research event where 10 students had the opportunity to practice the art...
CIERA REU Student Beverly Lowell Presents Research at Symposium
CIERA REU program participant and Illinois Institute of Technology undergraduate student Beverly Lowell presented at the National Science Foundation’s Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)...
CIERA’s Board of Visitors Meets with Top University Officials
CIERA has formed a diverse, external group of advisors to serve as its Board of Visitors. Members joined the group because they love science...
Dearborn Observatory Welcomes 1,500 During Architecture Festival
On October 15 & 16, the Dearborn Observatory hosted 1,500 visitors as part of the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Open House Chicago (OHC) event. Both...
Gravity Spy: The New Gravitational-Wave Project Using Citizen Science
LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, is the most sensitive and complex gravitational experiment ever created. When researchers look at the information LIGO receives...