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We were delighted to have the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys host the Transient and Variable Universe conference last week! Watch this space for future conference announcements!
Prof. Gautham Narayan and the SCIMMA team (@NCSAatIllinois,@LCO_Global, @penn_state, @Cornell and @UCSB) have received a $3.5M grant from the @NSF to develop the next-gen communications and computational infrastructure for time-domain & MMA! #NSFfunded
@NSF awarded $3.5M to NCSA and #SCIMMA to help better connect worldwide research groups working on multi-messenger astrophysics. This effort will allow them to communicate messages more rapidly, robustly, and in a way that both humans & machines can read.
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Prof. Joaquin Vieira and his group have used @NASAWebb to detect complex organic molecules in SPT0418-47 - 12 billion lightyears away. Read the news story here (which links to the @Nature article)!
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Astronomy Illinois grad student, Melanie Archipley, does cool work. Very literally. Some pictures from her time at the South Pole working with Prof. Joaquin Vieira's group as a Center for AstroPhysical Surveys fellow.
For years, Melanie Archipley has worked with data from the #SouthPoleTelescope to enrich her astronomy research. As an NCSA CAPS Fellow, she received an opportunity of a lifetime – a trip to #Antarctica to work with the SPT in person.
Read about her trip: go.ncsa.illinois.edu/news-05…
Congratulations to Dr. Colin Burke, who defended his Ph.D. thesis on the "Optical variability of intermediate-mass black holes as a probe of black hole accretion and growth." Colin's work with Prof. Xin Liu and will begin as a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale this Fall.
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🚨 Last day to register for this conference! – at Urbana, IL
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Congratulations to Drs. Ada Ertel, @alexgagliano, @jsvani, Jesse Miller and Samantha Thrush - our May 2023 Doctors from @AstroIllinois @UofIllinois! More pictures on Facebook or Instagram!
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We're co-sponsoring a conference in June that brings together members of the astronomy community working on transient and variable science across all wavelengths to drive conversations on upcoming surveys and much more. ⏰Register by May 19!
Details here: publish.illinois.edu/transie…
Bryce Cousins, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Physics Dept. discusses his work to find the next Galactic supernova with the @nsf supported SCiMMA and SNEWS teams, which includes several scientists at @AstroIllinois and @NCSAatIllinois! #nsffunded
physics.illinois.edu/researc…
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Please help us congratulate CAPS Graduate Fellow Alex Gagliano on his next adventure in Cambridge, MA. During his time with our Center, he developed GHOST. A database of more than 16,000 exploding stars and their host galaxies.
Read about Alex's journey: go.ncsa.illinois.edu/news-05…
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New Paper Day! arxiv.org/abs/2304.10419 I'm especially happy to see this one out in the world both scientifically (an idea I've been trying to implement for a long time) and because it involves contributions from my new research group at UIUC!
Congratulations to @davidvizgan on his @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
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Read about the first data release from the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE). Led by grad @PatrickAleo working w/ Prof. @gsnarayan & the Center for Astrophysical Surveys at @NCSAatIllinois, this is a major cross-institutional project witg ~2000 SNe
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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 @UofIllinois in July!
Register by 25 June for a FREE workshop for scientists interested in @VRubinObs and time-domain science: "Boom! A workshop on explosive transients with LSST," held 25-29 July in Urbana-Champaign (remote participation also supported). ow.ly/eKaa50JEccz
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Thank you to everyone who made our inaugural conference a success! We look forward to many more. Photo credit @thepostfuture
Congratulations to grad student, @alexgagliano, who won #ResearchLive at @UofIllinois! Watch his winning talk in the link below:
youtube.com/watch?v=YNo9rLS1…
.@AstroOnTapCU 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!
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T-minus 2 days till Liftoff!
LAS first-year and transfer students, join us on the Main Quad between 1:30-4 p.m. on Friday to kick off your amazing journey at UIUC.
More info at bit.ly/3iY5KtIR.
We’ll see you there!
ALT An LAS water bottle, tshirt, and some stickers in the grass on the Main Quad
ALT The LAS Liftoff Event Map. Check-in and freebies are in front of Foellinger Auditorium. The LAS Expo is in front of Davenport Hall. The Fun Zone and stage are near the north side of the English building.
Astronomy graduate student Colin Burke and Prof. Yue Shen led this study featured in this edition of @ScienceMagazine about the optical variability time scale of black hole accretion disks!
How massive is that supermassive black hole? New research in Science provides a novel method for characterizing the masses of these entities.
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