Spotlight
Assistant Professor of Physics Jean-Francois Paquet received a Merit Award at the Annual RHIC/AGS User Meeting
Oct. 9, 2024—Assistant Professor of Physics Jean-Francois Paquet received a Merit Award at the Annual RHIC/AGS User Meeting at Brookhaven National Lab. outstanding contribution to the study of the quark-gluon plasma using photons, fluid dynamics and advanced statistical methods, and his community leadership in the Hot QCD white paper which served as input to the 2023 Long...
Assistant Professor of Physics Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli Raghav received a Merit Award at the Annual RHIC/AGS User Meeting
Oct. 9, 2024—Assistant Professor of Physics Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli Raghav received a Merit Award at the Annual RHIC/AGS User Meeting at Brookhaven National Lab. for their leadership in jet physics in STAR and sPHENIX, for their service to the community and their impactful outreach. http://Merit Award Competition | RHIC & AGS Users’ Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory...
Professor Thomas Kephart and collaborators are being honored with a Wolfram Innovator Award
Oct. 8, 2024—Professor Thomas Kephart and collaborators are being honored with a Wolfram Innovator Award for their Mathematica-based sofware package, LieART. Award ceremony hosted at Wolfram Tech Conference on Oct. 16-18, 2024. . https://www.wolfram.com/events/technology-conference/2024/
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karan Jani hunts for black holes
Oct. 3, 2024—Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karan Jani works with students in a lab to do exactly that. https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/09/25/vanderbilts-ai-for-new-messengers-fellowship-drives-breakthrough-in-black-hole-detection/
Stephen Taylor appointed to NASA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission
Oct. 3, 2024—Taylor is one of only six scientists nationwide appointed to the LISA team, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA. LISA is a space-based gravitational wave detector constructed of three spacecraft separated by millions of miles in a triangle shape as big as the sun. “My role involves planning for how LISA...
Professor Keivan Stassun has won one of this year’s MacArthur foundation “Genius” awards.
Oct. 2, 2024—It is a tribute to all his amazing work on diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives in science, technology, engineering, and math. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/arts/macarthur-foundation-2024-genius-grant-winners.html
Stephen Taylor got a new NSF grant to build the most sophisticated Galaxy catalog ever for multimessenger host follow-up of supermassive black hole binaries found by NANOGrav.
Sep. 27, 2023—Stephen Taylor got a new NSF grant to build the most sophisticated Galaxy catalog ever for multimessenger host follow-up of supermassive black hole binaries found by NANOGrav. Prof. Taylor describes the project: — With the recent breakthrough evidence for a background of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, we now turn to the source. Where does it come from?...
Prof. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli ran a pilot program for a science outreach during the summer of 2023 with 26 metro Nashville high school students
Sep. 26, 2023—Prof. Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli ran a pilot program for a science outreach during the summer of 2023 with 26 metro Nashville high school students as part of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt (SSMV) program. This program titled ‘Let’s Smash the Proton’ was hugely exciting for the students to participate in research that will...
Multi-Messenger Astronomy program led by Prof. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann awarded a $1.6M NSF grant
Sep. 25, 2023—The Multi-Messenger Astronomy program led by Prof. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been awarded a $1.6M NSF grant in the PAARE program (Partnerships in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research and Education). This grant will support an innovative postdoc-to-faculty program in multimessenger astronomy that features professional development, wellness mentoring, and a focus on training in inclusive best practices. The...
Two Vanderbilt nuclear physicists win early-career grants from U.S. Department of Energy
Sep. 25, 2023—Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli and Jean-François Paquet, both assistant professors in the department of physics and astronomy, are among 93 scientists selected from across the nation to receive significant funding for research as part of the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program. The awards aim to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers at the...