Fantastic to see everyone at the SIMBA Collaboration Meeting 2023! Lot’s of SIMBA science since our first collaboration meeting hosted at the Flatiron Institute in 2020.
Massive black holes in galactic nuclei
The preprint of our new Chapter on Massive black holes in galactic nuclei: Theory and Simulations is available in the ArXiv! This will be published as part of The Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Set 2): Black Holes, edited by Z. Haiman (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2023).
CAMELS in the streets of NYC
Visualizations of simulations from the CAMELS project publicly displayed throughout the streets of New York City on the digital displays of LinkNYC!
CAMELS-ASTRID and 28-parameter suites
In a paper led by Yueying Ni and posted to ArXiv, we have just presented the largest suites of new simulations added to CAMELS since the start of the project, including the ASTRID model and 28-parameter variations in TNG and SIMBA.
Weighing galaxy clusters with AI
UConn Today is featuring our new paper on Augmenting astrophysical scaling relations with machine learning, led by Digvijay Wadekar and published in PNAS!
Cosmic Hearth: Sky Knowledge Across Traditions
Amazing experience to be invited as core speaker in the Cosmic Hearth: Sky Knowledge Across Traditions talk series at the Joseloff and Silpe Galleries at the Hartford Art School and learn from Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair Genevieve de Leon about her solo exhibition To Order the Days!
Cottrell Scholar Awards 2023
Daniel Anglés-Alcázar has been named a Cottrell Scholar 2023!
What Lights the Universe’s Standard Candles?
Niranjan Roy‘s paper on 3D Hydrodynamical Simulations of Helium-ignited Double-degenerate White Dwarf Mergers has been featured in Quanta Magacine. Congratulations Niranjan!
Sofya Levitina selected as University Scholar 2023
Congratulations to Sofya Levitina for being one of only 12 UConn students selected as 2023 University Scholar!
Local positive feedback in the overall negative
Congratulations to Jonathan Mercedes-Feliz for a wonderful paper in the arXiv today!