Congratulations to graduate student Alex Gagliano for winning the inaugural Lew Snyder Graduate Student Travel Award. Alex will be attending the conference "Exploring the Transient Universe with the Roman Space Telescope,” presenting on "Automating the Search for Rapidly-Evolving Transients with Roman”.
This award is possible due to the generosity of the friends and family of Prof. Lew Snyder...
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Prof. Charles Gammie will be giving a lecture on Black Holes on October 7, 11:00 am. The Center for Advanced Studies is sponsoring this talk. Click here for more information.
Astronomy professor Xin Liu has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations, Xin!
Professor Yue Shen will be giving a lecture on Black Holes on September 16, 11:00 am. The Center for Advanced Studies is sponsoring this talk. Read here for more information.- Although we would have loved to invite everyone back to campus to celebrate our 100th anniversary, with the pandemic it was not possible. Instead, we held a virtual celebration of the Department of Astronomy’s 100th year on August 21st. We shared some history, some stories of our graduates, and some ideas for our future. We were so happy to see everyone and to hear many great stories while we...
Congratulations to Alex Gagliano, NSF Graduate Fellow at Astronomy Illinois for winning the "Best Student Paper" award at The American Statistical Association Astrostatistics Interest Group 2021 Joint Statistical Meeting!
High school students got first-hand experience studying space and the Universe last week through the Girls' Astronomy Summer Camp run by the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA's Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS). Read more...
Congratulations to Patrick Mullen for successfully defending his PhD thesis Wednesday, June 30.
Congratulations to Jennifer Li for successfully defending her thesis on Tuesday, June 15!
Congratulations to the 2021 Astronomy graduates: Alexander Basler, Kunal Bhatia, Kelley Chau, Kaiyuan Dou, Jorge Espinoza, Justin Gaetz, Alex Garcia, Kameron Gausling, Archit Gupta, Jake Hawkins, Matthew Hoyle, Zhenghai Liu, Bashitha Mandava, Daniel Milgram, Daniel Montoya, Peyton Pielet, Sahaj Putcha, Japneet Singh, Yuchen Wang, and Zhengyuan Yu!
Grad student alumna, Miguel Holgado, and his Illinois colleagues recently published their findings about neutron stars. Read more about it here
Prof. Stu Shapiro has co-authored a new book in relativity. Entitled "Numerical Relativity: Starting From Scratch" (Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge) 2021, it is designed for students and researchers without backgrounds in general relativity who want to understand and use the tools of numerical relativity and run community codes that use these tools. Read more about it...
The Astronomy Department is proud to host the Illinois Astrofest on April 2021. It is open to everyone in the campus community, but registration is required. More information is found here.
Emeritus Astronomy Professor Laird Thompson has a newly published book. The book reflects on cosmic voids and the journey to have his findings accepted. Read more about it.