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!
McNair Scholars program
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!!!
First CAMELS Workshop
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!
What drives the growth of black holes?
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!
Young Scholars Senior Summit Showcase 2022
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.
What’s it like to be a PROFESSIONAL ASTRONOMER?
The June 2022 issue of BBC Sky at Night Magazine featured Daniel Anglés-Alcázar in their article What’s it like to be a PROFESSIONAL ASTRONOMER?
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PGSA poster session Spring 2022
Sofya Levitina, Amanda Zettler, and Matthew Gebhardt presented their research at the PGSA poster session Spring 2022!
Sofya Levitina awarded UConn IDEA Grant
Congratulations to Sofya Levitina for the UConn IDEA Grant awarded to investigate the coevolution of black holes and galaxies using machine learning!
The New Yorker
CAMELS project featured in The New Yorker!
What Can We Learn About the Universe from Just One Galaxy?
Cosmology with 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?