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The Science of Star Wars

21 Dec 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

In the past couple of weeks, I had the pleasure of working with the communications office and other faculty at Georgia Tech to produce a series of short articles on the Science of Star Wars. I chose to highlight the findings of NASA's Kepler Mission and connect them with the planets in the Star … Continue Reading ››

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2 New Papers: Massive BH Formation and Growth

21 Dec 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

In the past month, we have submitted two papers on the subject of massive black hole formation and growth. The first was led by John Regan at Durham University, and the second was led by KwangHo Park here at the CRA. In Regan et al. (arXiv), we investigate the process of massive black … Continue Reading ››

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Eric R. Immel Teaching Award

4 Aug 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

I have received the inaugural Eric R. Immel Award for Excellence in Teaching for my PHYS 2212 class in Fall 2014! It is named after the late Professor Immel and recognizes exemplary teaching in foundational classes in the prior academic year to a junior faculty member. I'm grateful for the philanthropy of Charlie … Continue Reading ››

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Solar Superstorms Show

30 Jun 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

Over the past six months, I've been working with people at NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) and Thomas Lucas Productions to produce a 2-minute segment for their upcoming planetarium show, Solar Superstorms. They visualized one of my simulations of the first galaxies and another of a supernova from a first star with yt. … Continue Reading ››

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TEDx Talk Posted!

30 Jun 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

Earlier this year, I was privileged enough to be chosen to give a TEDx talk at Douglasville, just to the west of Atlanta. There I spoke about how we and others model galaxies on supercomputers, understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies that we observe with some of the best telescopes on Earth and in … Continue Reading ››

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New Paper: The First Metal-Enriched Stars

29 Apr 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

Today, we have submitted a new paper on the formation of the first metal-enriched stars. We concentrate on the scenario where an external supernova blastwave enriches a nearby halo to 1/30,000th of the solar metallicity, sparking the gravitational collapse of the gas that can cool through molecular hydrogen formation on newly-formed dust grains. See … Continue Reading ››

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New Paper: Luminosity Function of the Earliest Galaxies

5 Mar 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

We have just submitted a paper (arXiv) to the Astrophysical Journal Letters on the UV luminosity function of the first galaxies. This paper presents some of the first results from the Renaissance Simulations, which is a trio of physics-rich galaxy formation simulations that focus on the earliest epochs, including the first metal-free (Population III stars), … Continue Reading ››

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Speaking at TEDxDouglasville

18 Feb 2015 John Wise 1 Comment

Late last year, I was invited to give a TEDx talk just to the west of Atlanta. TEDxDouglasville will be held on Saturday, April 4th at 10:30am. This event has the motto, "In with the Old, In with the New". I've decided to speak on galaxy evolution, using both the old and new … Continue Reading ››

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New Paper: Rabacus Method Paper Accepted

12 Feb 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

Over the course of the last year of Gabriel's tenure in the group, we were working on Rabacus, an analytic toolkit for cosmological radiative transfer problems. Its method paper was recently accepted (arXiv) for publication in the relatively new journal Astronomy & Computing. Rabacus can accommodate arbitrary spectra and density profiles and includes the … Continue Reading ››

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Dunn Family Professorship

6 Feb 2015 John Wise Leave a comment

I am deeply honored to have been selected to receive the Dunn Family Professorship. It was established "to recognize excellence in research scholarship of faculty members at the School of Physics in the early stages of their careers". Its support will aid in furthering our research efforts in early galaxy formation and promoting the scholarship … Continue Reading ››

Computational Cosmology at Georgia Tech

Category Archives: News

The Science of Star Wars

2 New Papers: Massive BH Formation and Growth

Eric R. Immel Teaching Award

Solar Superstorms Show

TEDx Talk Posted!

New Paper: The First Metal-Enriched Stars

New Paper: Luminosity Function of the Earliest Galaxies

Speaking at TEDxDouglasville

New Paper: Rabacus Method Paper Accepted

Dunn Family Professorship

Simulating the Universe