Congratulations to Xavier Sims for the 2022 Marshall Walker Teaching Assistant Award!!!  The UConn Physics Department presents this award every year in recognition of the exceptional performance of TAs that have impressed faculty by going above and beyond with their outstanding contributions.   Congratulations Xavier!

Excellent talk by Rachel Cleveland describing her research at the Fall 2022 McNair Apprentice Presentations

And congratulations to Rachel on being selected as McNair Scholar!!!

Lots of super interesting science and collaboration work at the first CAMELS Workshop this week!  The workshop was hosted by the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics and the Simons Foundation in New York City.

Group picture:

And the UConn team!

Amazing week in Reykjavik at the conference What drives the growth of black holes: a decade of reflection.

Presenting our latest cosmological zoom-in simulations with hyper-refined AGN-driven winds.

So good to see everyone in person after so long!

Congratulations to Pepper Rhodes for a fantastic presentation at the Young Scholars Senior Summit Showcase!  The YSSS program hosts extremely talented high school students that have been selected as Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholars to participate in a three-week research mentoring program at UConn.  Pepper has investigated the components and structure of galaxy clusters using cosmological simulations!

Pepper comparing the dark matter and gas components in a massive galaxy cluster and explaining her Python code:

Pepper and the mentoring team:  Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz, Matthew Gebhardt, Xavier Sims, Niranjan Roy (not in the picture), and Daniel Anglés-Alcázar.

Sofya Levitina, Amanda Zettler, and Matthew Gebhardt presented their research at the PGSA poster session Spring 2022!

Congratulations to Sofya Levitina for the UConn IDEA Grant awarded to investigate the coevolution of black holes and galaxies using machine learning!

CAMELS project featured in The New Yorker!

What Can We Learn About the Universe from Just One Galaxy?

News article published in Quanta magazine about our recent CAMELS preprint!

Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe

Original preprint: Cosmology with one galaxy?