Ok I am super tardy with my turn to do our research group’s blog, but there’s always a lot to juggle between running a group at a university, and all the other things I do as a professional scientist. However I do always make time for a significant amount of engagement with the public about […]
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First, the new news It’s the start of a new year so of course I made a bunch of resolutions that likely won’t stick, but one of them was to start doing more research blogging on our site, and to encourage my group to do better here too, after a longish hiatus. Why the hiatus?
Bringing the band back together! Read More »
It’s an exciting week in black hole-ville, as we are on the sky again with an even bigger and better Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) array, for the first time since 2018! At the same time, we are still only publishing results from our first major campaign in 2017. Why? Because our 2017 campaign was the
One ring to bind them all…one black hole, many views of its powerful jet! Read More »
I am somewhere between embarrassed and excited that I’ve just been named the winner of the first ever NWO (Dutch Research Council, our national funding agency) Domain Science Diversity Initiative Award! It’s on Twitter and YouTube and everything! In the somewhat awkward video, I express a bit of reluctance around having the money be attached
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We were very excited to find out that Bloomberg Businessweek named EHT to the 2019 Bloomberg 50, its annual list of innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders who have changed the global business landscape in measurable ways over the past year. The list will be published in a special issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, on newsstands on Friday,
EHT in the Bloomberg 50! Read More »
I had the great honour last night of participating in an annual public lecture series put on by the Canadian Astronomical Society/Société Canadienne d’Astronomie (CASCA) and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. It was a pretty amazing thing to see my name on the same page as the prior speakers, many of whom have served
Helen Sawyer Hogg Prize Public Lecture in Montreal Read More »
And now finally the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium made the big announcement at midnight last night that there will be press events around the world, on 10 April, at 13:00UT (which for normal people means 9:00am US East coast time, or 15:00 Central European time), where we will
I should have posted about this awhile ago when this came out, but things have been very hectic recently. The Guardian did a nice little blurb about the Event Horizon Telescope, and spoke to me and Prof. Peter Galison (who is also participating in our upcoming panel at SXSW! See https://schedule.sxsw.com/2019/events/PP83510) about the leadup to
Quick promo for EHT-related article in the Guardian Read More »
This morning I came into work to read some super exciting news in my email! A gamma-ray burst (GRB) has been detected by ground based TeV facility MAGIC for the very first time, with extremely high significance! There has been an impressive multi-wavelength campaign to try to constrain more details of the source, and it
First ever Very-High-Energy (TeV) detection of a Gamma-ray Burst!! Read More »
I am very excited to announce our Advancing Theoretical Astrophysics summer school in Amsterdam, 15-26 July! See below for more info, but this school will be really unique in that we have top international experts in theoretical/computational astrophysics and advanced techniques like statistics and machine learning, coming together to teach ~50 students with an emphasis
Announcing: the Advancing Theoretical Astrophysics international summer school! Read More »
