Graduate Student

Grad student Sophia Sánchez-Maes awarded the Theory-Experiment Cross Training Fellowship (TEX) from the John Templeton Foundation

June 23, 2023

Sophia Sánchez-Maes has been awarded the Theory-Experiment Cross Training Fellowship (TEX) from the John Templeton Foundation. Sophia Sanchez-Maes Prize

Under the fellowship, Sophia is studying solar plasma physics, focusing on flares, from both X-ray instrumentation...

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Floor Broekgaarden

Floor Broekgaarden wins 2023 Keto Prize!!

May 8, 2023

Congratulations to Floor Broekgaarden, winner of the2023 Keto Prize!!

Floor won for her thesis “Gravitational-Wave Paleontology: A New Frontier to Probe Massive Binary Stars Across Cosmic History.” Her advisor was Edo Berger.

 

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. The restriction is...

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Dance Your PhD

Astrophysics Student Wins International 'Dance Your PhD' Competition

February 25, 2022

Donning pointe shoes and a poufy pink tutu, Xiaohan Wu gracefully leaps across the marled dance floor. She stoops, collects an intricate hand fan and proceeds to twirl, delicately waving the fan back and forth as she spins.

But this is not a recital and Wu is no dance student. She's a graduate astronomy student who has created an interpretative dance explaining her research on the early universe — and she's clearly got chops.

On Thursday, Wu was named the winner of the physics...

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Josh Speagle

Graduating student, Josh Speagle, awarded the annual Keto Prize for his thesis "Mapping the Milky Way in the Age of Gaia."

May 8, 2020

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.

In the Fall, Josh will begin a five year Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto)

Abstract of Josh's thesis

 

A central problem in astronomy is converting the 2-D positions of sources observed on the sky to their 3-D...

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