Posts tagged with “Alumni” (All posts)
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A team including assistant professor of physics and astronomy Ryan Terrien ’09 built a tool called the Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) to better detect planets orbiting M dwarf stars.
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FOCUS Program Receives Diversity Magazine Award
16 August 2018Carleton’s FOCUS Program has been awarded a 2018 “Inspiring Programs in STEM” Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. The national recognition honors programs that are making a difference for all under-represented groups in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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Carleton announces eight Fulbright grant winners
11 May 2018Meet the Carls who will spend a year abroad on prestigious Fulbright grants.
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LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars
16 October 2017Carleton professors Nelson Christensen, Jay Tasson and Joel Weisberg, alumni again play a huge role in discovery that marks first cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and light.
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Carleton professors Nelson Christensen and Jay Tasson, along with alumni Jacob Broida ’17, Tom Callister ’13, Santiago Carides ’08, and Michael Coughlin ’12, all are authors on a newly-released paper describing a recent three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence.
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Rock Star Researchers
23 May 2016“Woodstock for physicists” is how Carleton physics professor Nelson Christensen describes the Washington, D.C., press conference at which scientists announced their groundbreaking discovery of gravitational waves.
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Putting Carleton on the Celestial Map
1 March 2016The final telescope, a 16.2-inch Brashear refractor purchased for $15,000 (more than $390,000 in today’s dollars), was made by Pittsburgh’s famed John Brashear Company, arrived in 1890, and was placed beneath the larger dome.
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Carleton physicists play role in groundbreaking discovery
18 February 2016Physics is having a rock star moment, Carls a part of exciting discovery
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Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction
11 February 2016LIGO opens new window on the universe with observation of gravitational waves from colliding black holes; Carleton professor, students part of collaboration to make groundbreaking discovery.
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The Electric Brain
6 February 2015“You’ll have a computer that will be able to understand you. The better you concentrate, the faster the computer will know what you want.”
