IDEAS Alumni Vicky Yang featured in Forbes
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
IDEAS Trainee Boris Rösler’s Research Featured in NU-IT Newsletter
During the Summer of 2018, IDEAS Trainee Boris Rösler completed his internship requirement for the IDEAS program by working at Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS). Rösler is pursuing a PhD student in Earth and Planetary Sciences, working with...
Michelle Paulsen Represents IDEAS at 2018 SACNAS Conference
The 2018 SACNAS “National Diversity in STEM” Conference took place this year in San Antonio, Texas, October 11 – 13th. IDEAS was well represented at the conference by Program Director, Michelle Paulsen, who was invited to participate in the event as...
IDEAS Trainees Awarded Prestigious Fellowships
In the 2017-2018 academic year, two IDEAS Trainees–Vicky Chuqiao Yang and Alex Gurvich–were awarded prestigious fellowship grants for their continuing research. Vicky, who is a graduate student in the department of Engineering Science and Applied...
Spring Quarter Machine Learning Meet-Up: Camille Avestruz
IDEAS Trainees Win 2018 Computational Research Day Visualization Competition
This week, winners were announced for Northwestern University’s 2018 Computational Research Day Visualization Competition. Two IDEAS Trainees were among the three entrants awarded. The title of “Best Animation” went to Alex Gurvich, for his Stellar...
Trainee Jimmy Kim is Invited Speaker at SIAM Event
On March 1st, IDEAS Trainee Jimmy Kim (Physics and Astronomy) was chosen to speak at the Winter quarter “Bridging the Gap” seminar, hosted by Northwestern’s Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The seminar’s focus was to highlight the broad...
IDEAS Information Session for Potential 2018 Cohort Members to be Held 3/12/18
The IDEAS program will be hosting an Information Session for students interested in applying for positions amongst the 2018 Trainee cohort. Program director Michelle Paulsen will give a brief presentation going over the set up of the TGS Certificate and Traineeship,...
