Northwestern Hosts Regional Conference for Women in Physics
Over 160 undergraduate physics students from more than 50 institutions attended the American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (APS CUWiP), organized...
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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...
Shane Larson Wins Grand Prize in Instructables Optics Contest
Shane Larson won the grand prize for the Optics Contest of Instructables for his tutorial detailing the construction of a very large backyard Dobsonian...
“Galactic Bloom” Takes 2nd Place & Student Choice Award in ‘Beauty of Science’ Contest
Astrophysics doctoral students Zach Hafen and Alex Gurvich have taken home the prizes for second place and Student Choice Award in the Science in...
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...
The Boulder Philharmonic Performs ‘Celestial Suite’ as Part of 2018-19 Season: Open Space
“The Boulder Philharmonic calls its 2018–19 season Open Space, and will begin its classical programming focusing on the openest space of all. Under the...
Phil Nicholson Presents CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Joint with EPS
Starting off the 2018-2019 academic year, Phil Nicholson, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, presented his talk, Cassini’s Grand Finale to an audience of...
2018 REU Students Present Their Research at Annual Poster Session
CIERA’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program provides students with the chance to pursue an astrophysics-based interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with Northwestern faculty. This year,...
CIERA Helps Chicago-Area High School Students Host 2018 GirlCon
On Saturday, June 16th, over 170 middle and high school girls from around the United States gathered to address the future of diversity in...
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...
Computational Research Day: April 10, 2018
Computational Research Day is an annual all-day symposium which brings together Northwestern students, faculty, and researchers across fields and disciplines to share and promote...