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Yangyang Cai: 2024 Graduate Student Research Prize Awardee
The TAP is pleased to announce that Yangyang Cai has been selected to receive the 2024 Graduate Student Research Prize. Dr Cai received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2023. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University....
Joint Colloquium: Cosmology and Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data
Friday, February 29, 2024 3:30 - 4:30pm, Steward Observatory, Room N210 ChanHoon Hahn, Princeton Title: Cosmology and Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data Abstract: Galaxy surveys of the next decade will observe hundreds of millions of galaxies over unprecedented...
New Hackathon Series: Deep Learning for Astronomy
The Computation and Data Initiative is organizing weekly “hacks” to teach the foundation of deep learning and work through practice projects. Each session includes hands-on projects; a competition is planned for the semester. All are welcome to join! See the...
Dr. Gabriele Bozzola Receives APS 2024 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
Congratulations to Dr. Gabriele Bozzola, UArizona Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, for being awarded the American Physical Society’s 2024 Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics. Gabriele completed his PhD in...
Sam Gralla Provides Opening Night Talk for the 2024 College of Science Lecture Series
Sam Gralla, Associate Professor of Physics and TAP Faculty Member, will provide the opening-night talk for the 2024 College of Science Lecture Series. This annual event, held at UArizona’s Centennial Hall (and via livestream) features current innovations in science...
2024 Spring TAP Colloquia Poster
2024 TAP Graduate Student Research Prize: Now inviting applications
The Theoretical Astrophysics Program invites applications for the 2024 TAP Graduate Student Research Prize for the best paper on a theoretical astrophysics topic by a University of Arizona graduate student. Graduate students and postdocs (< one year...
TAP Student Training/Travel Grants: Apply Now for 2024 Awards
The Theoretical Astrophysics Program invites one-page proposals for small matching grants in support of theoretical astrophysics research across the Departments of Astronomy, Physics, and Planetary Sciences. Grant awards up to $1,000 may be used...
Jiachuan Xu – A 2023 Recipient of the College of Science Graduate Student Research Award
Congratulations go out to Jiachuan Xu, TAP student member and recipient of the CoS Graduate Student Research Award for his development of a cosmological measurement tool, Kinematic Lensing. Weak lensing is one of the most powerful tools to directly probe the...
Congratulations to Haowen Zhang: 2023 TAP Research Prize Awardee
The TAP is pleased to announce that Haowen Zhang has been selected to receive the 2023 Graduate Student Research Prize. Haowen was selected as the awardee based on his demonstration of exceptional theoretical research in his recent paper published in the Monthly...