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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...
Announcing: TAP Student Travel Grant Recipients
TAP student members are annually invited to submit applications for matching funds to support conference travel, academic research, or career training opportunities. All applicants must demonstrate a direct connection to theoretical modeling and/or computational...
UA News: Machine learning reveals how black holes grow
Research led by Peter Behroozi (Steward Observatory) and graduate student Haowen Zhang is leveraging supercomputing power and machine learning to recontruct the growth histories of black holes starting at their event horizons. Along with an international team,...
Gabriele Bozzola: 2022 TAP Research Prize Recipient
The TAP is pleased to announce Gabriele Bozzola as the 2022 recipient of the 2022 Graduate Student Research Prize. Gabriele was selected as the awardee based on his demonstration of exceptional theoretical research in his recent paper published in Physical Review...
Kris Klein, Lunar and Planetary Sciences, to serve as Deputy Principal Investigator for NASA’s HelioSwarm mission
The mission will provide scientists with data to study turbulence in the solar wind. As the solar wind expands to fill the heliosphere – the outermost atmosphere of the sun, which encompasses much of the solar system – it interacts with the magnetic fields of Earth...
TAP Small Matching Grants: Apply by March 1
Due Date: March 1, 2022 5:00pm MST 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...
2022 Graduate Student Research Prize Competition
On an annual basis, the Theoretical Astrophysics Program awards the 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 post degree) with...
Now on YouTube: TAP Fall 2021 Colloquia
TAP talks returned to campus during the Fall 2021 semester. This series featured four talks at an earlier time (1030 UTC), and hosted in a hybrid format allowing more attendees to join the discussion. A new spring schedule will be available in the near future. In the...
TAP Matching Small Grants: Apply by March 1
Due to reduced travel and in-person meetings and conferences, the Theoretical Astrophysics Program seeks to support innovative research concepts for UArizona graduate students. Funding may be requested for various research-specific expenses such as acquisition of...