LIGO Co-founder Rainer Weiss Presents CIERA Annual Public Lecture
On May 2, 2017 Prof. Rainer Weiss presented his talk, “Beginning the Exploration of the Universe with Gravitational Waves,” to an enthusiastic audience of...
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CIERA Director Prof. Kalogera Receives Walder Award for Research Excellence
Vicky Kalogera has been honored as the winner of the 2017 Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence. This award is...
CIERA Contributes to Northwestern’s Computational Research Day
To celebrate and highlight advanced research computing at Northwestern, the fourth annual Computational Research Day was held on April 18th. This all-day, campus-wide event...
Prof. Faucher-Giguère Receives NSF Honor for Young Faculty
Congratulations to CIERA’s Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, recipient of a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Faucher-Giguère, who...
CIERA to Welcome New Postdocs in Fall 2017
We are pleased to announce that the following postdoctoral researchers will join CIERA in the Fall of 2017! Cliff Johnson studies star clusters in the...
Rocco Coppejans Joins CIERA’s Mel Ulmer to Work on Mirrors in Space
Postdoctoral researcher Rocco Coppejans has joined CIERA to work with Professor Mel Ulmer on developing new techniques to correct the shapes of mirrors, in space, using...
CIERA Researchers Highlight Their Expertise in Seven Minutes or Less
On March 16, 2017, CIERA graduate students Paul Williams and Michael Zevin showcased their skills in public speaking at the bi-annual event: “Seven Minutes...
New Issue of “LIGO Magazine” Features Gravity Spy Article by Mike Zevin
The tenth issue of LIGO Magazine is now available for download. This issue focuses on LIGO’s second observation run, “O2”. In “Getting ready for O2: A data...
CIERA Pilot Program Exposes Students to Astronomy Research
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are crucial to innovation, yet many challenges exist to producing highly qualified STEM graduates. CIERA Professor Dave Meyer...
CIERA Professor Giles Novak Joins ALMA Science Advisory Committee
Professor Giles Novak has been appointed as a member of the ALMA Science Advisory Committee (ASAC). ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter-Submillimeter Array, is located...
Professor Jeremy Kasdin Presents CIERA Winter Interdisciplinary Colloquium
On March 1, Princeton University’s N. Jeremy Kasdin presented, “Finding and Characterizing Earth 2.0: An Engineering and Astronomy Partnership” to an audience of approximately...
Media Seek Expertise on New Planets in TRAPPIST-1 System
Local astronomers, in their roles here at CIERA and at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, received a flurry of press requests for interviews and quotations in...