The CRA’s Professor Bogdanovic was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure and Professor Cadonati to Full Professor.
CONGRATULATIONS!
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Kate Napier Wins 2016 Porsche Driving Force Award
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights partnered with Porsche Cars to create the Porsche Driving Force Awards. This award honors women in STEM! Congrats to Kate Napier – check out her interview.
Travel Grants for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Conference Travel Grants for College of Sciences’ Undergraduate Students (NEW!) Website: http://cosinfo.gatech.edu/cosuctg
Conference Travel Grants for College of Sciences’ Graduate Students
Website: http://sga.gatech.edu/g/conference-fund/
Daegene Koh wins Best Poster Prize
Graduate student, Daegene Koh, won first place in the popular vote for best poster (out of 75) at the conference, First Stars V. Congratulations! By winning best poster, he got to give a 10-minute presentation on his work. Pretty good for a first conference!
Public Lecture by Professor Francis Halzen on Fall 2016
Hilldale and Gregory Breit Professor Francis Halzen will be giving a public lecture on September 12, 2016 at the CULC, room 144 at 6 pm.
Wise goes to the Hill
John Wise urges support for more supercomputing at Capitol Hill
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Bogdanovic Named Cottrell Scholar
The first Georgia Tech Cottrell Scholar since 1999, Tamara Bogdanovic’s research, “Shedding Light on Supermassive Black Holes,” will include the development of high-resolution computer models. Utilizing existing observational data, Tamara Bogdanovic will attempt to develop a new generation of theoretical models to aid in the discovery and observation of binary supermassive black holes.
For more on the announcement see:
http://rescorp.org/awards-database/awardee/shedding-light-on-supermassive-black-holes
Bogdanovic named Cullen-Peck Fellow
Tamara Bogdanovic has been awarded one of the four Cullen-Peck Fellowship given by the College of Sciences, GaTech. Cullen-Peck Fellowships recognize research accomplishments led by associate professors or advanced assistant professors.
Save the date: Oct. 31 Colloquium by Brad Peterson
Brad is a veteran in the field of massive black hole mass measurements using reverberation mapping and a former chair of Astronomy at OSU. Brad will also give a Colloquium at GSU and a public talk co-ordinated by GSU. We will co-advertise this public event too.