Professors Laguna, Cadonati an Shoemaker are launching a vertically integrated program in gravitational-wave astrophysics for undergraduates Fall 2017. For more information see http://www.vip.gatech.edu/teams/new-team-gravitational-wave-astrophysics
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Congratulations to David Ballantyne for receiving NASA Group Achievement Award
Prof. David Ballantyne received NASA Group Achievement Award as part of the NuSTAR Extragalactic Survey team for exceptional achievement in executing the NuSTAR extragalactic survey program and, thereby resolving the significant fraction of the cosmic X-ray background. Congratulations!
Congratulations for Promotion to Bogdanovic and Cadonati
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