NEWS ARCHIVE
Avi Loeb was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 6, 2012. Please click here for photographs of the event.
Mark Vogelsberger, Debora Sijacki, Dusan Keres, Paul Torrey, Lars Hernquist of the ITC/CfA and Volker Springel (HITS) simulated 14 billion years of cosmic history. (read more...)
Using Arepo, the visualization code (Springel, 2010), it accurately follows the birth and evolution of thousands of galaxies over billions of years and generates a variety of galaxies seen locally, including majestic spirals like the Milky Way and Andromeda. 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 delivered a series of four lectures as the recipient of the 2012 Galileo Chair ("Cattedra Galileiana") at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. Recorded video of the talks are available at http://tv.sns.it/eventispeciali. View the poster here.
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
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 beginning in the fall of 2012: 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 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.
The Kavli Foundation spoke with George Becker, Richard Ellis and Avi Loeb about the hunt for the first stars and galaxies. A transcript of the conversation may be found here.
ITC scientists Elena D'Onghia, Lars Hernquist and Mark Vogelsberger merged astrophysics and art in the production of a spiral arm movie, recently selected for exhibition at the Kimball Art Center, home to the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. The exhibit "The Art of Science" runs from February 11 thorugh March 7, 2012.
ITC post-doctoral fellow Raffaella Margutti has won a mention to the 2011 Livio Gratton prize as one of the three "best Italian PhD thesis in Astronomy over past two years" for her work on gamma-ray bursts.
Avi Loeb gave the May 12, 2011 public lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History - "How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?" - featured on UC television. To view a video, click here.
A paper by Avi Loeb and Edwin Turner in the journal Astrobiology, suggesting that city lights could reveal E.T. civilization,
generated numerous mentions in the mainstream media including articles in Time Magazine and the Boston Globe.
It is with great sadness that we report the death of our dear friend and colleague Myron "Mike" Lecar. Click here to read an obituary.
Jack Burns (U. Colorado) gave a talk on "Into the Dark Ages: The Dark Ages Radio Explorer" on May 23. Click here to view the video.
The ITC and ITAMP (Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics) jointly organized a Hydrogen Cosmology Workshop on May 18-20, 2011. Click here for more information. Click here for a slide show of pictures from the workshop.
Alar Toomre (MIT) gave a talk on "Spiral Structure: What Remains?" on April 11, 2011 as part of the ITC Galactic Dynamics Pizza Lunch series. To view a video, click here.
ITC Director Avi Loeb gave the CfA Author’s Night talk on his recent book, How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form (Princeton University Press, 2010), on Thursday, October 21, 2010. To view a video of the talk, click here.
Everyone at the ITC is profoundly saddened by the loss of our colleague and friend John Huchra. An obituary appeared in the Harvard Gazette (click here to read it). We miss him dearly.
ITC Director Avi Loeb spoke on "Future Frontiers in Astrophysics: Suggestions for Young Researchers" on September 7, 2010. To view a video of the talk, click here.
On November 1, 2010, Avi Loeb delivered the Harvard Physics Colloquium on "How Did the First Stars and Black Holes Form?" To view the video, click here.
From May 10-13, 2010, The ITC hosted the Sixth Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics, Sponsored by Raymond and Beverly Sackler, entitled "Dynamics from the Galactic Center to the Milky Way Halo." More information on the conference may be found here.
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