Vassiliki Kalogera

August 2008

July 2008

Vicky Kalogera was featured in an article titled “10 Rising Stars of Astronomy” written by Daniel Pendick in Astronomy Magazine's August 2008 Issue.

Also included in the article were: Joshua Bloom at UC Berkeley, Julie Castillo-Rogez at NASA's JPL, Steven Furlanetto at UCLA, Scott Gaudi at Ohio State University, Kelsey Johnson at the University of Virginia, Lisa Kewley at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Eliot Quataert at UC Berkeley, Alice Shapley at UCLA and Tommaso Treu at UC Santa Barbara.

A new paper has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters "Probing Electron-Capture Supernovae: X-Ray Binaries in Starbursts" by T. Linden, J. F. Sepinsky, V. Kalogera, & K. Belczynski

June 2008

Jeremy Sepinsky is planning his graduation for the end of the summer as he has now accepted an attractive offer for what is almost his dream job: Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Scranton, right in the area where he was raised and discovered his love for science and physics. Congratulations!

May 2008

Tim Linden completed two separate Senior Honors Theses in his two majors: Physics and Astronomy and Integrated Science; both of his theses were selected for the Best Senior Thesis award in each of the majors. Double Congratulations!
Following graduation from Northwestern Tim will join UC at Santa Cruz for his graduate studies in Physics and Astronomy.

A new paper has been submitted to Classical & Quantum Gravity "Parameter Estimation of Spinning Binary Inspirals Using Markov-chain Monte Carlo" by M. v.d. Sluys, V. Raymond, I. Mandel, C. Rover, N. Christensen, V. Kalogera, R. Meyer, & A. Vecchio.

April 2008

A new paper has been submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society "Asymptotic Approximations of Low-Frequency Gravity Modes in Stars with a Convective Core and a Radiative Envelope" by J. Kaplan and B. Willems.

Vicky Kalogera has been chosen as the recipient of the Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for the 2007-2008 academic year. Congratulations!

Tim Linden has chosen among several offers to pursue his graduate studies in astrophysics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Congratulations!

Vicky Kalogera participated in a press conference on "The Smallest Black Hole" by Shaposhnikov and Titarchuk at the 10^th AAS HEAD Meeting in Los Angeles on April 1, 2008. Vicky was quoted in several news reports as an outside expert on the topic:

DISCOVERY CHANNEL LIVESCIENCE

MSNBC NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

SPACE.COM

March 2008

Marc van der Sluys gave a Colloquium titled "Parameter estimation of spinning binary black-hole inspirals using MCMC" at Penn State University on March 27, 2008.

Bart Willems gave a Colloquium titled "Compact Oject Binaries: Stellar and Binary Evolution in the Gravitational Wave Era" at The University of North Texas on March 6, 2008.

Vicky Kalogera gave a Colloquium titled "Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Their Birth and the Detection of Gravitational Waves " at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, on March 5, 2008.

February 2008

Ilya Mandel gave a talk titled "Ground-based detection of gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals" at University of Winsconsin - Milwaukee on February 29, 2008.

Bart Willems gave a Colloquium titled "Compact Oject Binaries: Stellar and Binary Evolution in the Gravitational Wave Era" at RIT on February 22, 2008.

Bart Willems gave a Colloquium titled "Compact Oject Binaries: Stellar and Binary Evolution in the Gravitational Wave Era" at Georgia Tech on February 13, 2008.

January 2008

Vicky Kalogera gave an Invited Talk titled "The Birth of Neutron Stars and Black Holes" at the First Midwest Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on January 19-20, 2008.

Jeremy Sepinsky gave a talk titled "Interacting Binaries with Eccentric Orbits: Ballistic Trajectories" at the 211^th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society held in Austin, Texas, on January 7-11, 2008.