October, 2024
Assistant Professor of Physics Jean-Francois Paquet received a Merit Award at the Annual RHIC/AGS User Meeting
Oct. 9, 2024—Assistant Professor of Physics Jean-Francois Paquet received a Merit Award at the Annual RHIC/AGS User Meeting at Brookhaven National Lab. outstanding contribution to the study of the quark-gluon plasma using photons, fluid dynamics and advanced statistical methods, and his community leadership in the Hot QCD white paper which served as input to the 2023 Long...
Assistant Professor of Physics Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli Raghav received a Merit Award at the Annual RHIC/AGS User Meeting
Oct. 9, 2024—Assistant Professor of Physics Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli Raghav received a Merit Award at the Annual RHIC/AGS User Meeting at Brookhaven National Lab. for their leadership in jet physics in STAR and sPHENIX, for their service to the community and their impactful outreach.
Professor Thomas Kephart and collaborators are being honored with a Wolfram Innovator Award
Oct. 8, 2024—Professor Thomas Kephart and collaborators are being honored with a Wolfram Innovator Award for their Mathematica-based sofware package, LieART. Award ceremony hosted at Wolfram Tech Conference on Oct. 16-18, 2024. . https://www.wolfram.com/events/technology-conference/2024/
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karan Jani hunts for black holes
Oct. 3, 2024—Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karan Jani works with students in a lab to do exactly that. https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/09/25/vanderbilts-ai-for-new-messengers-fellowship-drives-breakthrough-in-black-hole-detection/
Stephen Taylor appointed to NASA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission
Oct. 3, 2024—Taylor is one of only six scientists nationwide appointed to the LISA team, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA. LISA is a space-based gravitational wave detector constructed of three spacecraft separated by millions of miles in a triangle shape as big as the sun. “My role involves planning for how LISA...
Professor Keivan Stassun has won one of this year’s MacArthur foundation “Genius” awards.
Oct. 2, 2024—It is a tribute to all his amazing work on diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives in science, technology, engineering, and math. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/arts/macarthur-foundation-2024-genius-grant-winners.html