NEWS AND PHOTOS
Registration is now open for the Seventh Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics: Testing General Relativity (GR) with Astrophysical Systems, to be held May 14th through 17th, 2012 in Cambridge, MA. For the scientific program, list of speakers and information, please visit http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2012/sackler/.
Avi Loeb has been been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems
Alicia Soderberg has been selected as a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, an award given to early-career scientists and scholars in recognition of achievement and the potential to contribute substantially to their fields.
Avi Loeb was awarded the "Cattedra Galileiana" (Galileo Galilei Chair) for the 2011-12 Academic Year at the Scuole Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy.
Nine ITC members (not counting incoming postdocs) were awarded prize fellowships in 2012: Laura Blecha, Smadar Naoz, and Meng Su were awarded an Einstein fellowship, and Kaitlin Kratter, Matt McQuinn, Stella Offner, Yue Shen, Jack Steiner, and Mark Vogelsberger were awarded a Hubble fellowship. This totals one third of all the new Einstein/Hubble fellowship awarded worldwide in 2012. (read more...)
The ITC will host three new Hubble fellows next year: Xuening Bai (an incoming postdoc), Mark Vogelsberger, and Jack Steiner, as well as one new Einstein fellow: Smadar Naoz.
Other ITC members were successful at getting faculty positions in 2011/12:
Avery Broderick (a former ITC fellow) started a joint faculty position at the Univ. of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute in Canada, Charlie Conroy accepted a faculty position at UC Santa Cruz, Lijoun Gou accepted a scientific staff position at the National Astronomical Observatories (Chinese Academy of Sciences) in Beijing, China, Elena D'Onghia accepted a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin, Anna Frebel accepted a faculty position at MIT, Ryan Hickox started a faculty positions at Dartmouth College, Jon McKinney (a former ITC fellow) accepted a faculty position at the University of Maryland, Asaf Pe'er was just offered a faculty position at the University of Cork, Ireland, Hagai Perets accepted a faculty position at the Technion, Israel, Jonathan Pritchard started a faculty position at Imperial College, UK, and Brant Robertson started a faculty position at the University of Arizona.
Click here for photos from the Fall 2011 ITC Reception, September 18, 2011.
Click here for photos from the third annual ITC Soccer Cup match, July 31, 2011.
NEWS ARCHIVE: Click here for a listing of previous news items.
PHOTO ARCHIVE: Click here for a listing of photos from past years. |
OPPORTUNITIES
Visiting Scholars
Faculty on sabbatical from institutions outside Harvard wishing to conduct research at the ITC, typically for one semester in residence, may contact the ITC Director, Avi Loeb.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
For application procedures for the ITC Postdoctoral Fellowship, please click here.
For information on research positions in Chris Stubbs's group, please click here.
Predoctoral Fellowships
Graduate students at institutions outside Harvard wishing to conduct thesis research at the ITC for a period of one year may apply to the SAO Predoctoral Program.
The ITC also has limited funds to support students wishing to conduct research at the ITC for a period of one to three months. For more information, please email itcinfo[at]cfa.harvard.edu.
AWARDS
The Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics, endowed with a generous donation by ITC Senior Member Eric Keto, is awarded each year for the best thesis in theoretical astrophysics by a student at the CfA, as selected by the Senior Members of the ITC. Previous winners:
- 2009 - Matt McQuinn (Astronomy) and Rebecca Shafee (Physics)
- 2010 - Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere
- 2011 - Gurtina Besla
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