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Science Prizes for the 21st Century - The Kavli Prizes recognize scientists for their seminal advances in three research areas: astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. [more]


10 Feb 2010      

Wednesday colloquium
Maryam Modjaz, Understanding the Diverse Explosions of Massive Stars: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and their Host Galaxies

12 Feb 2010      

Friday noon seminar
Dan Marrone, Peering at the horizon: A close look at Sagittarius A* and other black holes

23 Feb 2010      

KICP postdocs symposium

14-16 Jun 2010      

10th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop

14 Jan 2010      

Edward Kolb and Michael Turner share the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

VERITAS Discovers Evidence for the Origin of Cosmic Rays, Simon Swordy and Scott Wakely

The VERITAS collaboration, an international team of astronomers from the US, Canada, UK and Ireland, including KICP senior members Simon Swordy and Scott Wakely, and KICP associate member Lucy Fortson, recently announced the discovery of very high energy (VHE) gamma rays emitted by the starburst galaxy M82 (the Cigar Galaxy). The observed gamma rays have energies more than a trillion times higher than the energy of visible light, and are the highest energy photons ever detected from a galaxy undergoing large amounts of star formation. The discovery was made from data taken over a two-year long observing campaign. [more]


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