by Yoni Brande | Jun 14, 2022 | Career Navigation, Current Events, Personal Experiences
We sit down with Professor Rebekah Dawson, Helen B. Warner Prize winner and plenary speaker at #AAS240 to hear about Hot Jupiters, the unexpected in astrophysics, and the best advice she got in graduate school!
by Luna Zagorac | Jun 14, 2022 | Career Navigation, Current Events, Personal Experiences
How does a non-astronomer, experimentalist, non-engineer build an cosmic neutrino detector at the South Pole? Tune into Prof. Francis Halzen’s #AAS240 Bruno Rossi Prize talk to catch a glimpse.
by Catherine Manea | Jun 13, 2022 | Career Navigation, Current Events, Interviews, Personal Experiences
We interview Prof. Nicholas Scoville, plenary speaker at #AAS240, about his work measuring the interstellar gas content of galaxies (and his artistic inclinations, too!).
by Michael Foley | Jun 13, 2022 | Career Navigation, Current Events, Interviews, Personal Experiences
How does astronomy get passed down from generation to generation? Learn about Kepler and the history of astronomy from Dr. William Donahue’s #AAS240 LeRoy E. Doggett Award plenary talk!
by Sahil Hegde | Jun 12, 2022 | Career Navigation, Current Events, Interviews, Personal Experiences
We sit down with Professor Vicky Kaspi and Dr. Paul Scholz, plenary speakers at #AAS240, to hear about their work studying fast radio bursts with the CHIME telescope!
by Abby Lee | Jun 12, 2022 | Career Navigation, Current Events, Interviews, Personal Experiences
We sit down with Professor David Weinberg, one of the designers of SDSS, to talk about his plenary at #AAS240, “Asteroids to Reionization: The Broad Reach of Survey Astronomy”, and much more!