Today marks the beginning of the first Atlanta Science Festival, a week-long celebration of science and technology with dozens of activities happening around metro Atlanta. Members from the CRA will be leading a few events in the next week.

• Tech Talks (Monday, March 24, 2014 – 6:30pm to 8:00pm; Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business … Continue Reading ››

Reionization is an extended process where the whole universe transitions from neutral to ionized between 300 and 1,000 million years after the Big Bang. While it has been established that galaxies are the main drivers of reionization and that active galactic nuclei (AGN) are unimportant during this process, very few have made an effort to … Continue Reading ››

Last month, I was in Hokkaido University, giving an Enzo users' workshop with a few of my colleagues. While I was there, I agreed to give a public talk about the first galaxies, titled "Baby Galaxies: The First Steps to the Milky Way". Elizabeth Tasker graciously wrote a post about my talk. I thought … Continue Reading ››