07/05/2018 - Graduate Student Daniel George has won third place in the Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition. Congratulations, Daniel!
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07/02/2018 - Erin Cox successfully defended her PhD thesis on July 2, 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Cox!
05/16/2018 - Congratulations to the Astronomy Class of 2018! Best wishes on your future endeavors--you make us proud!
05/07/2018 - A second congratulations to Illinois alum Vicky Kalogera (Ph.D. 1997)! The Daniel I.
05/03/2018 - Vicky Kalogera (Ph.D. 1997) is the Daniel I.
05/03/2018 - Graduating Senior Alex Dittmann is the winner of the 2018 Wyatt Award. The Wyatt award is presented to the graduating Astronomy major or minor with the most outstanding GPA and track record of und
04/09/2018 - Ben Ryan, who recently defended his thesis, won the 2018 Mr. and Mrs.
04/09/2018 - Every year, the University of Illinois awards six people the Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award. This year, Prof. and Assistant Chair Bryan Dunne was one of the winners.
03/16/2018 - Charlie Young, a sophomore in CS+Astronomy, has created an analytics program for Fighting Illini baseball.
03/02/2018 - Sidney Lower, a senior minoring in Astronomy, has won the 2018 Layla S. Ryan Scholarship award.
01/25/2018 - Prof. Eliu Huerta and Grad Student Daniel George are pioneering the use of Deep Learning to study gravitational waves.
01/11/2018 - The Dark Energy Survey releases first three years of data. Illinois plays a large role in the data and the science.
01/10/2018 - Professor Yue Shen, post-doctoral researcher David Starkey, and graduate student Jennifer Li, along with researchers from the Pennsylvania State University, recently announced new measurements of s
12/07/2017 - Prof. Joaquin Vieira, grad students Kedar Phadke and Sreevani Jarugula, and undergrad Sydney Lower are among the astronomers who have made recent discoveries about how galaxies were formed.
11/17/2017 - Daniel George won first place in the SC17 ACM Student Research Competition!! This work included new deep learning algorithms, black hole simulations with the Einstein Toolkit, and LIGO gravitational wave data analysis. Congratulations, Daniel!
