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Rachel in Harvard Yard

Rachel Gilchrist, Senior Astronomy concentrator, featured in Gazette story about her role giving historic tours of campus.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Worldwide Telescope Project

Alyssa Goodman's Worldwide Telescope project receives grant from FAS Dean's Fund.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Dave Charbonneau

Dave Charbonneau featured in University of Chicago Big Brains podcast on exoplanets.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Photo by Samuel Harrison

Harvard Gazette feature "Life Way Below Zero" Interviews and photos of BICEP research team at the South Pole.

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Albert Einstein

Relatively Speaking - Einstein and Black Holes to be offered at Harvard University on September 11, 2019 at 5:30 pm.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Scorpius

Alyssa Goodman: Astronomy Rewind fast-forwards to reanimate "Zombie" astrophotos thanks to thousands of citizen scientists.

Monday, July 15, 2019

Sara Rugheimer at Oxford

Alumna Sarah Rugheimer awarded the prestigious Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Rita Fireman with Jennifer Bergman

Jennifer Bergner is awarded the Edward J. Fireman Fellowship for best graduate dissertation in her work as an astrochemist observer and experimentalist.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Soley and Amir, Goldberg Prize winners

Goldberg Prizes awarded to Astronomy concentrators Soley Hyman, Mma Ikwut-Ukwa and Amir Siraj at end of year Awards Ceremony

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Arts First

Four of our concentrators participating in ARTS FIRST Creativity Festival on campus on May 4. See schedule inside.

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

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Spotlight: Josh Speagle

Josh Speagle

Josh Speagle is a 4th-year graduate student who works with a linear combination of Charlie Conroy, Doug Finkbeiner, Alyssa Goodman, and Daniel Eisenstein. His work broadly focuses on combining astronomy, statistics, and computer science to develop techniques to analyze large datasets in order to study stars, galaxies, and other astronomical phenomena. While his past work focused on better galaxy evolution and cosmology, more recently he has been interested in creating a data-driven model for our own Milky Way Galaxy that incorporates stars, interstellar dust and gas, and dark matter in order to reproduce observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. Since his interests require connecting theory, observation, computation, and statistics, he frequently collaborates with other researchers across a variety of (sub-)fields and tries whenever possible to make the tools/algorithms he develops available for use by other researchers and members of the public. His current codebase can be found here.

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