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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...
New Hackathon Series: Deep Learning for Astronomy
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...
Announcing 2021 Competition
Grad Student Prize
This year the Theoretical Astrophysics Program will award the TAP Graduate Student Research Prize for the best paper on a theoretical astrophysics topic by a University of Arizona graduate student. The recipient will receive a commemorative plaque plus $500 cash and...
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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...
New Hackathon Series: Deep Learning for Astronomy
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...
Announcing 2021 Competition
Grad Student Prize
This year the Theoretical Astrophysics Program will award the TAP Graduate Student Research Prize for the best paper on a theoretical astrophysics topic by a University of Arizona graduate student. The recipient will receive a commemorative plaque plus $500 cash and...
