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

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!

The CRA’s Professor Bogdanovic was promoted  to Associate Professor with Tenure and Professor Cadonati to Full Professor.

CONGRATULATIONS!

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.

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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/

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.

John Wise urges support for more supercomputing at Capitol Hill

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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