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New CCAPP Hires for 2014
CCAPP is excited to welcome four new postdocs this fall! Looking forward to a great year.
Ashley Ross joins us from the University of Portsmouth, UK. This is his second postdoc and works on…
SURP Researcher Discusses His Research
Paul Zivick was accepted into this year's Astronomy Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), working with faculty Paul Martini and postdoc Paul Sutter on observable characteristics of cosmic…
Twelve CCAPP alumni starting permanent-track jobs this year
One of the goals of CCAPP is to train the next generation of scientists in research as well as the skills needed for success in such a career. This is a huge year in terms how many of our graduate…
Graduate Student Wins Presentation Awards
Congratulations to Shirley Li, who was one of the winners of the 2014 Physics department PGSC poster competition. Her poster was on her work calculating cosmic-ray muon induced backgrounds in the…
The Measure of Nothing
At the largest scales the universe looks like an enormous spider web, with long rope-like filaments, dense clumps of galaxies, and vast empty regions called voids. Ohio State CCAPP astrophysicist…
Cosmology for the People
The universe is really, really big, so simulations of the universe must also be really, really big. The latest, run by a team including Ohio State CCAPP astrophysicist Paul Sutter, followed the…
The Weight of Nothingness
The existence of voids, almost entirely empty regions of the cosmic web, has been confirmed by several spectroscopic surveys in the past years. But so far, nobody knew how empty voids really are…
ASAS-SN Discovers its 50th Nearby Supernova
One of the major goals of the ASAS-SN project is to produce a complete census of bright, nearby supernovae. In the last few months, using four 14-cm diameter telescopes in Hawaii and two such…
CCAPP Faculty, David Weinberg Quoted in ScienceDaily
Something is Amiss in the Universe: Cosmic Accounting Reveals Missing Light Crisis
Something is amiss in the Universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the…