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...
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Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère Named 2019 Scialog Fellow
The fourth-annual Scialog: Time Domain Astrophysics (TDA) conference was held May 9-12 in Tucson, Ariz., with 47 Scialog Fellows and eight discussion facilitators attending,...
Lindsey Byrne Awarded DOE Graduate Fellowship
By: Lydia Rivers (@lydiuhrivers) CIERA graduate student Lindsey Byrne received a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). She will be...
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,...
Paper by CIERA Postdoc Emily Leiner Highlighted on AAS Nova Site
Emily Leiner’s recently published paper on “blue stragglers” has been featured on AAS Nova. This website is designed to highlight some of the most...
MODEST-18 Hosted by CIERA in Santorini, Greece
MODEST-18, the 18th workshop on Modeling and Observing DEnse STellar systems, took place on the island of Santorini, Greece, June 25 – 29. Scientific...
New Study: LISA Observatory to Detect Globular Cluster Binaries in the Milky Way
The historic first detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes far outside our galaxy opened a new window to understanding the universe. A...
Seven New Postdoctoral Researchers Join CIERA
We are excited to introduce CIERA’s incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellows. They will bring a wide-range of expertise that promises to advance CIERA’s cutting-edge 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...
Shaping Globular Clusters with Black Holes
How many black holes lurk within the dense environments of globular clusters, and how do these powerful objects shape the properties of the cluster...
“Black Hole Encounter” by CIERA Postdoc Aaron Geller Sweeps 2017 Scientific Images Contest
On November 2, Science in Society announced the winners of the 2017 Northwestern Scientific Images Contest. The winners were announced during an exhibition launch...
Graduate Student Katie Breivik Wins Blue Apple Prize at MRM
The 27th Midwest Relativity Meeting was held October 12-14, 2017, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. This meeting brings together researchers from...