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Prof. Gautham Narayan and the SCIMMA team (NCSAatIllinois,Las Cumbres Observatory, Penn State, Cornell University and UCSB) have received a $3.5M grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop the next-gen communications and computational infrastructure for time-domain & MMA! #NSFfunded
Congratulations to Drs. Ada Ertel, Alex Gagliano, Sreevani Jarugula, Jesse Miller and Samantha Thrush - our May 2023 Doctors from AstroIllinois University of Illinois! More pictures on Facebook or Instagram!
Congratulations to David Vizgan on his U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!
Read about the first data release from the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE). Led by grad Patrick Aleo working w/ Prof. Gautham Narayan & the Center for Astrophysical Surveys at NCSAatIllinois, this is a major cross-institutional project witg ~2000 SNe
ncsa.illinois.edu/caps-ncsa-pres…
The deadline for Boom! has been extended to July 9th - if you did delay, still a chance to get an abstract in! We look forward to seeing everyone (virtually or in person) at the University of Illinois in July!
Congratulations to grad student, Alex Gagliano, who won #ResearchLive at University of Illinois! Watch his winning talk in the link below:
youtube.com/watch?v=YNo9rL…
.Astronomy on Tap CU is back in-person Sep 23rd, 7 PM, at the amphitheater outside the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Join Prof. Leslie Looney to hear about all the ways space can kill you and grad student, Chris Tandoi to learn about space weather! CU There!
Astronomy graduate student Colin Burke and Prof. Yue Shen led this study featured in this edition of Science Magazine about the optical variability time scale of black hole accretion disks!