04/09/2018 - Ben Ryan, who recently defended his thesis, won the 2018 Mr. and Mrs. Hsiang-pai and Wen-hua Chu Department Of Astronomy Excellence in Research Graduate Student Award. This award has been given by Prof. Emerita You-Hua Chu in honor of her parents, to a graduate student. Congratulations, Ben!
News
03/16/2018 - Charlie Young, a sophomore in CS+Astronomy, has created an analytics program for Fighting Illini baseball. Read here for more details
03/02/2018 - Sidney Lower, a senior minoring in Astronomy, has won the 2018 Layla S. Ryan Scholarship award. The Layla Suzanne Ryan Memorial Scholarship is given to a Junior or Senior major or minor in Astronomy who...
01/25/2018 - Prof. Eliu Huerta and Grad Student Daniel George are pioneering the use of Deep Learning to study gravitational waves. Read more here
01/11/2018 - The Dark Energy Survey releases first three years of data. Illinois plays a large role in the data and the science. The release consists of 38,000 single exposure images over roughly 5,000 square degrees, resulting in nearly 310 million galaxies and 80 million stars cataloged....
01/10/2018 - Professor Yue Shen, post-doctoral researcher David Starkey, and graduate student Jennifer Li, along with researchers from the Pennsylvania State University, recently announced new measurements of supermassive black holes. Read more here
12/07/2017 - Prof. Joaquin Vieira, grad students Kedar Phadke and Sreevani Jarugula, and undergrad Sydney Lower are among the astronomers who have made recent discoveries about how galaxies were formed. Read...
11/17/2017 - Daniel George won first place in the SC17 ACM Student Research Competition!! This work included new deep learning algorithms, black hole simulations with the Einstein Toolkit, and LIGO gravitational wave data analysis. Congratulations, Daniel!
11/14/2017 - Prof. Joaquin Vieira and graduate student Kedar Phadke will be among the first astronomers to observe with NASA’s $10B James Webb Space Telescope, launching in 2019.
10/20/2017 - It is a great pleasure to proudly announce that our own Prof. Gabrielle Allen was elected a 2017 Fellow of the APS. Being elected an APS Fellow is a major recognition of her professional accomplishment from the leading organization of physicists. She provides international leadership in development...
10/19/2017 - The Astronomy Building recently underwent an overhaul of its HVAC system, which led to a dramatic decrease in our energy use. As a result, Astronomy is being awarded a 2017 Energy Conservation Incentive Program (ECIP) award! Congratulations!
08/07/2017 - New measurements from data processed at the University of Illinois verify the theory that 26 percent of the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter and that space is filled with an also-unseen dark energy, which is causing the accelerating expansion of the universe and makes up 70 percent...
05/26/2017 - Congratulations to the Astronomy Class of 2017 for a job well done! Best wishes on your future endeavors--you make us proud!
04/05/2017 - Dom Segura-Cox has won the 2017 Mr. and Mrs. Hsiang-Pai and Wen-Hua Chu Department of Astronomy Excellence in Research Graduate Student Award. Congratulations, Dom!
03/30/2017 - Prof. Felipe Menanteau and the Dark Energy Survey team use supercomputers to map the Universe and find its ingredients. Menanteau (right) is a Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Research Associate...
