IDEAS Alumni Vicky Chuqiao Yang was recently featured in Forbes giving insight into “The Reason American Politics Are So Polarized”. Vicky is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, where she is working on modeling party polarization over time. In this Forbes article, Kevin Anderton writes “Yang and her team have created a […]
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Congrats to IDEAS Trainee Vivian Tang on latest Earthquake Detective Publication
IDEAS Trainee and PhD Student in Earth and Planetary Sciences Vivian Tang summarizes Earthquake Detective’s latest findings below: Citizen scientists help identify local seismic events whose recorded signals are much smaller than those associated with the surface waves that have triggered these local events in Alaska. The local events include small earthquakes as well as […]
IDEAS Trainee Michael Zevin’s Publication Investigates LIGO Data on Globular Clusters
IDEAS NRT Trainee Michael Zevin is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and studies how gravitational waves can help us learn about populations of compact objects. Gravitational waves observed by LIGO encode information about their massive-star progenitors, such as the environments they were born in, the intricacies of stellar evolution that persisted throughout their […]
Earthquake Detective Featured by sustainNU in Citizen Science Project Spotlight
As part of their Virtual Earth Month celebration, each week sustainNU will highlight two new research projects on biology, climate, history, nature, social sciences, and/or outer space. These online projects, on Zooniverse, utilize the power of thousands of everyday people to accomplish large research endeavors. “Earthquake Detective lets users classify earthquakes, tremors, and other seismic […]
IDEAS Trainee Vivian Tang Applies ML Methods for EarthScope Discoveries
IDEAS NRT Fellow Vivian Tang systematically searched EarthScope data for seismic tremor and small earthquakes that occur within North America rather than on the North American plate boundary during transient stress fields. She specifically explored searched USArray seismogram data for tremor and earthquakes dynamically triggered by the 2012 Mw8.6 Sumatra earthquake. In addition, Tang newly […]
IDEAS & CIERA Host NSF Research Traineeship National Meeting
Nearly 300 graduate students, faculty, and professionals (evaluators and staff) from more than 90 programs and 60 institutions attended the 2019 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Annual Meeting hosted by IDEAS and CIERAat Northwestern University from September 25 through 27. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students […]
IDEAS Trainees Attend the Grace Hopper Celebration 2019
This past week the Grace Hopper Celebration 2019, the world’s largest gathering of women in technology, took place in Orlando. The Grace Hopper Celebration is annually organized by AnitaB.org in partnership with the Association for Computing Machinery. The objective is to “bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront.” IDEAS […]
IDEAS Fellows Contribute to New Seismology Citizen Science Project
“Seismology has a Big Data problem. Northwestern University seismologists think everyday citizens are the solution. This winter, a Northwestern team of students and faculty launched “Earthquake Detective,” an interactive project that solicits help from volunteers to sort through swaths of data from the world’s tens of thousands of seismograms. By sorting and classifying earthquakes, tremors […]
