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Margalit part of team that wins Scialog Award in early LSST research
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Assistant Professor Ben Margalit of the School of Physics and Astronomy was part of a team that won an award from the first year of the Scialog: Early Science from the LSST from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
Taft Wins Chambliss Student Award for Astrophysics Research
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Sarah Taft, a Ph.D. student at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, has been honored with the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award for her outstanding poster presentation at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in National Harbor, Maryland, this past January. The award recognizes exceptional research conducted by undergraduate and graduate students who present at AAS conferences.
MIfA Faculty Position
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The Minnesota Institute of Astrophysics (MIfA) within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Astrophysics.
ESA Euclid’s Great Cosmic Atlas
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Here is a first look at the Euclid Space Telescope’s great cosmic atlas from the European Space Agency. This research includes contributions from Dr. Claudia Scarlata, director of MIfA, who is part of the Euclid collaboration. Join us in congratulating Dr. Scarlata and the entire Euclid team on the exciting initial results of the Euclid mission.
New imagery technique helps understand the Universe
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering have developed a new technique that reconstructs two dimensional (2D) radio images–visual representations created from radio waves–into three dimensional (3D) "Pseudo3D cubes" to help better understand objects in the Universe.
Researchers advance detection of gravitational waves to study collisions of neutron stars and black holes
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Alerts can now be sent less than 30 seconds after detection.
UM Investigators Selected as PIs for James Webb Telescope Cycle 3
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UM Investigators Selected as PIs for James Webb Telescope Cycle 3
Coughlin, Citro, and Criswell part of comprehensive UV light survey
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Assistant Professor Michael Coughlin, postdoctoral researcher Annalisa Citro, and graduate student Alexander Criswell of the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics are part of a new mission that has just been selected to conduct a comprehensive survey of ultraviolet light spanning the entire sky
Two astrophysics Alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering
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Two astrophysics Alumni Martha C. Anderson (Ph.D., Astrophysics ‘93), Kei May Lau (B.A.,’76, M.S. ‘77), and Jeffrey Puschell (Ph.D., Astrophysics ‘79), have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2024.