Ian Ochs, a 2022 graduate of the Program in Plasma Physics in the Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences, has won the 2023 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award presented by the American Physical Society (APS). The highly competitive honor recognizes “exceptional early-career scientists who have performed…
Oliver Philcox *22 has been awarded the…
Vinicius Duarte, Research Scientist with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) received an Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy. The awards are given to “support the research of outstanding scientists early in their careers. The program will support over 80 early career researchers for five years at U…
Jamey Szalay, a Research Scholar with Astrophysical Sciences was awarded the Early Career Achievement Medal from NASA. “This prestigious NASA medal is awarded for significant performance during the first 10 years of an individual’s career in support of the NASA Mission. The contribution is significant, in that, for an employee who is at…
The Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University has joined the WIYN Observatory as an Operational Partner. WIYN operates a 3.5-meter diameter optical telescope on the summit of Kitt Peak in the Tohono O'odham Nation outside of Tucson, Arizona, and Princeton astronomers will be granted about 30 nights of observing time…
Wolf Cukier ’24 and Research Scholar Jamey Szalay have been using observations from the Parker Space Probe to gain understanding of the creation of the Geminids meteor shower. Cukier and Szalay used data from the probe to model three scenarios and compare them to models from observations made on Earth. The models reflect three…
On Tuesday, May 9th, The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $53 million investment in partnership with the Simons Foundation to expand the Simons Observatory in Chile. The focus of the observatory is the study of the “cosmic microwave background radiation that permeates the universe and contains hidden clues about how the early…
Cole Meyer, junior in the Astrophysics department was awarded the Outstanding Presentation Award for Princeton Research Day 2023! The presentation, "Estimates of heating rates in the near-Sun environment” was based on Cole’s Junior Paper work with Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Associate Research…
Princeton researchers led by graduate student Roohi Dalal, in collaboration with astronomers at Carnegie Mellon University and various institutions in Japan, announced today new cosmological results from an analysis of deep imaging data from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey. Measuring the weak gravitational lensing signal from 25…
Junior Jupiter Ding was awarded the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Award for his work presented at this winter’s American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle. His work was titled “Miscentering of Optical Galaxy Clusters Based on Sunyaev-Zeldovich Counterparts” and his research was with Michael Strauss and Roohi Dalal. …