NEWS AND PHOTOS
Ramesh Narayan, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University, has been been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
ITC Visiting Scholar Richard Ellis delivered a special colloquium talk entitled "Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies During the Reionization Era" that can be viewed here.
In the Harvard Gazette article, "Tweaks to the Universe" Avi Loeb discusses new findings on the age of the universe and its rate of expansion.
Time Magazine featured Avi Loeb and co-author, Dan Maoz, of Tel Aviv University's paper "Detecting bio-markers in habitable-zone earths transiting white dwarfs" in a Science & Space article: Could Tiny Stars Be Home to Mirror Earths?
Jim Moran has been selected to receive the 2013 Grote Reber Gold Medal in Physics for his pioneering work in the development and application of spectroscopic Very Long Baseline Interferometry in the field of Radio Astronomy.
Rebekah Dawson and Matthew Walker have received the Martin and Beate Block Award for Promising Young Physicists at the 2013 Aspen Center Particle Astrophysics Conference.
The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Bulletin reviews highlights and the future of the ITC in an article entitled the "State of the Stars".
Avi Loeb's book, "How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?", (Princeton University Press, 2010), has been selected for the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award by the American Astronomical Society.
Avi Loeb has been awarded the 2013 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the University of Melbourne in Australia, (read more...) given to academics of international distinction in a field of interest to the University of Melbourne. Fellows are expected to present a public lecture and several specialist lectures. Previous recipients include Barbara Grosz, Tory Higgins, Thomas Mann, Michael Waltzer, and Joseph Weiler.
Irwin Shapiro won the 2013 Einstein Prize of The American Physical Society, "for his contributions to experimental solar system tests of relativistic theories of gravity, (read more...) and in particular for proposing and measuring the Shapiro time delay effect." The Prize, to be presented at APS April 2013 Meeting in Denver, CO, was established to recognize outstanding accomplishments in the field of gravitational physics.
Click here for photos from the Fall 2012 ITC Reception, September 23, 2012.
Click here for photos from the fourth annual ITC Soccer Cup match, August 19, 2012.
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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.
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.
- 2013 - Robert Penna
- 2012 - Laura Blecha
- 2011 - Gurtina Besla
- 2010 - Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere
- 2009 - Matt McQuinn (Astronomy) and Rebecca Shafee (Physics)
CONFERENCES
Seventh Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics: Testing General Relativity (GR) with Astrophysical Systems, May 14 - 17, 2012 in Cambridge MA. Sponsored by Raymond and Beverly Sackler and Irwin Shapiro.
Sixth Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics: Dynamics from the Galactic Center to the Milky Way Halo, May 10 - 13, 2010 in Cambridge MA. Sponsored by Raymond and Beverly Sackler.
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