Department News


new Astronomer Jerry Nelson interviewed about the
Thirty Meter Telescope at the recent Halliday Lecture by Wired Magazine.
 [11/18/2009] [link]
new UCSC astrophysicists have developed supercomputer simulations
of colliding white dwarfs, providing a new path to detonate "standard candle" type Ia supernovae. A new study published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and featured in a Scientific American  article.
 [11/09/2009] [link]
new UCSC Astrophysicist Mark Krumholz featured as "rising star" in the Fall 2009 UCSC Review [11/03/2009] [link]
new UCSC Astronomer Jerry Nelson featured in the October edition of
Science about the Thirty Meter Telescope.
 [10/31/2009]
new Astronomy alum Marla Geha chosen as one of PopSci's annual
Brilliant 10- a selection of the brightest young researchers in the country.
 [10/19/2009] [link]
new UCSC physicist Anthony Aguirre
highlighted in Discover and Astronomy magazine feature stories on the possibility that we inhabit just one of many "universes"-- and that we might actually be able to detect the presence of others.
 [09/15/2009]
new Astronomer Garth Illingworth leads team that has begun observations
 with new images and spectra from a rejuventated Hubble Space Telescope and is quoted on this subject in two ScienceNews articles; September 16th and September 26th.
 [09/14/2009]
new Lick Observatory celebrates 50th anniversary of Shane Telescope
For 50 years, the 3-meter Shane Telescope has helped keep Lick Observatory at the forefront of modern astronomy.
 [09/04/2009] [link]
new Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UCSC astrophysicist, has an article published
this week in Nature discussing the origin of short gamma-ray bursts.
 [08/27/2009]
new Fermi results featured on the cover
of Science. A team of UCSC physicists at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) played a leading role in the development of the instrument. UCSC physicists and astronomers are coauthors of three major papers reporting scientific results from Fermi in the July issue. [08/24/2009] [link]