(warning, very long post!!) I hope those of you reading our blog enjoy hearing all about the great research we are doing, led by amazing young researchers! This post is a bit different, but equally important, about the toll that academic life can have if we’re not careful about self-care. Overwork is something I still […]
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Awhile back I posted about our pitch to give a panel session at the SXSW Interactive Festival in 2019, in the “Intelligent Future” track. I am very pleased to announce that our panel was selected last week, and is now online as part of the official schedule!! We do not know what day yet, but
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As this picture shows, nothing seems to make members of my group happier than a massive rack of ribs (well except for me and Atul, who are eating the veggie options…). That, and a visit from our collaborator Sasha Tchekhovskoy, from Northwestern University! (left to right: me, Koushik Chatterjee, Prof. Sasha Tchekhovskoy, Dr. Gibwa Musoke,
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We are busy analyzing the data from the first full run of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2017, which I’ve posted about before but is a telescope effectively the size of the Earth, aimed at making the first ever actual picture of a supermassive black hole! While everything is understandably still under embargo it’s
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The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a ‘virtual’ Earth-sized telescope made by linking facilities across the globe, is on the cusp of announcing its first ever results to “photograph” a black hole! Why does this relate to our research group? Well, we develop theoretical models for the physics of what happens to stuff as it falls
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Coming off the rush from an extremely unique conference that Enrico Ramirez Ruiz, Jane Dai and Nicole Cabrera Salazar and I just organized, at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. This was a theoretical astrophysics conference, but also the first ever workshop designed to organize the URM community in a very non-URM dominated field. We
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Our new Nature Astronomy paper PR image made the High-Energy Astrophysics Picture of the week at NASA!! Click on the image to go the POW on the NASA site, where you can also link to the press release with more information about the article.
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Yeah, so it’s been awhile. But the semester is starting, there are new people in the group, and with the help of Vanna Pugliese, we’re going to start updating and revamping the site to make it more active. To kick it off, here’s a funny handheld panorama taken in Porquerolles, an island off the coast
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Today was Earth Day but also the day of many Marches for Science across the planet. We did our part here in Amsterdam (see also marchforscience.nl): a group of us from the astronomy department here at University of Amsterdam set up a booth and hung out all day answering questions, showing the solar telescopes we
Sorry for the delay in posting, I was knocked out for a few days with something but catching up now. So EHT did end up triggering the final night on 11 April! Things went really well, and one of the things I really wanted to see happen, happened! My main role in all this was
