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Perseus cluster image taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Photo: NASA)
, Comparison of the Hubble Space Telescope observation of the filaments in the Perseus cluster (left) with the Yu Qiu research team's thermal energy illustration of the simulated cluster (right).
, Yu Qiu
, Tamara Bogdanovic, associate professor, School of Physics

Two Georgia Tech physicists may have come up with an answer for how cold gas filaments can stretch for tens of thousands of light-years from the super hot centers of galaxy clusters. 


Students celebrating graduation

Georgia Tech’s Spring 2020 Commencement Ceremony is postponed until… well, we don’t know just yet. Once we receive updated guidance on large gatherings, we will choose a date for our traditional, in-person ceremony — complete with all the pomp and circumstance (and gold and white balloons) graduating Yellow Jackets have come to expect! So, stay tuned for that announcement.


Up with the White & Gold
, Hemaa Selvakumar
, Daniella Noronha

Students in the Schools of Mathematics and Physics are recognized by their peers for service and support of the Georgia Tech experience during the Up with the White and Gold virtual celebration. 


Carlos Silva, professor in the School of Physics and the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Professor Carlos Silva is a new associate editor at Science Advances, an open access journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 


Dynamics of COVID-19: Near- and Long-Term Challenges
, Governor Brian Kemp discusses the limited re-opening of sectors of Georgia’s economy. Photo: Alyssa Pointer

Joshua Weitz shares COVID-19 expertise with media in Atlanta and around the globe.


Figure 1 Simulation of the merger of two neutron stars detected by LIGO using the Einstein Toolkit. Left are the gravitational waves emitted and right the disrupted material. Credit: Karan Jani, Georgia Tech
, Pablo Laguna, Professor and Chair of the School of Physics
, Deirdre Shoemaker, Director of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and professor in the School of Physics.

Two Georgia Tech physicists, Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker, are part of a new National Science Foundation award to continue development of the Einstein Toolkit, a collection of scientist-shared computational resources for advancing studies of relativistic astrophysics and gravitational wave physics.



How Jennifer Leavey’s videos use research articles to build personal contact and educate online communities about COVID-19 research.


Student Awards news story
, Shaun Eisner
, Steven Creech
, Amitej Venapally
, Sara Brockmeier

Undergraduates in Georgia Tech's College of Sciences are recognized for taking part in research studies that might be offered only to graduate students at other institutions. The students studies complex problems in math, biochemistry, psychology, and physics. 


Congratulation to our O'Hara Fellows.
, Hyeonsoo (Harris) Jeong, 2020 O'Hara Graduate Fellowship Winner
, Deborah Ferguson, 2020 O'Hara Graduate Fellowship Winner
, Suttipong (Jay) Suttapitugsakul, 2020 O'Hara Graduate Fellowship Winner
, Yuchen He, 2020 O'Hara Graduate Fellowship Winner

Four College of Sciences graduate students are the recipients of the 2020 Larry O'Hara Graduate Student Fellowship, presented to top doctoral students in their third or fourth years of study.


Coping with COVID
, COVID-19 face mask art

If coughing in your sleeve is effective, face masks must be, too, and successes in Asia and Europe corroborate this, physicist says.


Peter Addison, fourth-year undergraduate and May 2020 candidate for graduation from the School of Physics, and Lucy, the family goldendoodle.
, From Addison's research: energetic neutral atom (ENA) images of the planetary plasma environment around Saturn's moon Titan.

School of Physics senior Peter Addison is already working on a graduate school level, according to his research group director. He'll return to Georgia Tech after graduation to continue studies that could help NASA choose landing sites for its Europa Clipper mission. 


Nature Astronomy, March 2020
, March 2020 cover of Nature Astronomy.
, Deirdre Shoemaker, Director of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and professor in the School of Physics.
, Karan Jani (Ph.D. Georgia Tech ‘17), professor at Vanderbilt University and member of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics. Photo: Vanderbilt University
, Black Holes Collide
, Simulation of Binary Black Holes
, LIGO in Hanford, Washington

Study on intermediate-mass black holes, multiband gravitational waves takes the spotlight in this month's Nature Astronomy.