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Thomas Edwards Receives 2023 Mark O. Robbins Future Faculty Prize in High-performance Computing

Thomas Edwards Receives 2023 Mark O. Robbins Future Faculty Prize in High-performance Computing
Thomas Edwards, a postdoctoral fellow working with Marc Kamionkowski and Emanuele Berti, has received the 2023 Mark O. Robbins Future Faculty Prize in high-performance computing. The award recognizes work by Edwards and his collaborators in which they used automatic differentiation and AI-assisted techniques to produce a code that analyzes gravitational waveforms from the Laser Interferometer...

Euclid Space Telescope is Go for Launch: July 1, 2023

Euclid Space Telescope is Go for Launch: July 1, 2023
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope will launch from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday July 1. Bloomberg Professor Chuck Bennet, Professor Brice Ménard, and Associate Research Scientist Graeme Addison are part of the Euclid mission’s science team. Euclid will survey galaxies over the sky to determine the nature of the dark universe. This includes...

Launch Anniversary of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: June 30, 2001

Launch Anniversary of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: June 30, 2001
June 30th marks the anniversary of the launch of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which started its nine-year mission in space on this date in 2001 to measure temperature differences across the sky in the cosmic microwave background. Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Chuck Bennett was the Principal Investigator of the mission. WMAP's measurements were so...