The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a major international organization of professional astronomers, announced today the recipients of some of its 2025 prizes for outstanding achievements in research and education.
This year the prestigious Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy was presented to CITA faculty Maya Fishbach for her “major contributions to the field of gravitational-wav…
CITA Professor Norman Murray has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for his “seminal contributions to our theories of chaos in the solar system, including planet formation and evolution; and for pioneering new methods for studying the physics of black hole accretion and the effects of stars and supermassive black holes on galaxy formation.”
The American…
By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
CITA and Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow James Beattie and collaborators were awarded close to a 100-million-core-hours on the German supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center, SuperMUC-NG. Beattie will utilize the immense computing power of SuperMUC-NG for the investigation of magnetic field generation in merging binary…
By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
In June the International Astronomical Union [IAU] announced the 2024 winners of three IAU prizes – the IAU Astronomy Outreach Prize, the IAU Astronomy Development Prize, and the IAU Astronomy Education Prize. The three awards recognize individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of…
By: Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Assistant Professor Maya Fishback, one of the newest additions to the faculty of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, has been awarded the 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize for “excellence and potential of research in Physics”. The prestigious honour recognises Fishbach’s pioneering research as…
February 20, 2024 by A&S News
Two researchers from the Faculty of Arts & Science have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Maya Fishbach is an assistant professor with the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) whose gravitational wave research is helping revolutionize our understanding of stellar evolution, t…
By Lyuba Encheva, Communications and Events, CITA
CITA faculty Bart Ripperda and postdoctoral fellow Gibwa Musoke have been awarded 250,000 computing hours at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) for research on processes that power the extremely bright emissions that we see from neutron stars. The research project, which is a collaboration between CITA, University of Maryland,…
The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members of the American Physical Society who have made advances in physics through original research and publication, made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology or have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics.
Congratulations to this year’s APS…
A cross-Canada collaboration including the University of Toronto has won the prestigious Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a groundbreaking radio telescope — one of the most novel and…
The Solvay Institutes have selected Professor Juna Kollmeier of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and the University of Toronto as its 2022 Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics. Prof. Kollmeier is the first scientist from Canada to receive this honour, whose past 16 recipients have included two Nobel Laureates.
Prof. Kollmeier is the Director of CITA and…