• Lots o’ great group news!

    I keep trying to get the traffic up from my group but it’s hard to remember to post although there is a lot going on (or because there is a lot going on). Anyway, we have some very nice news this week: 1) Salomé has accepted an offer for a postdoctoral position with Elmar Körding’s group at University of Nijmegen! Maybe she wants to say more but I’ll leave that to her. She had a busy start to the year doing conference talks and lecture tours, but it definitely paid off! 2) We just finished the 2014 PhD recruitment round for the API and we had an amazing amount of…

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  • New York Times article on the “G2” encounter

    This is pretty cool: the Science News article linked from the front page of the NYTimes is about the G2 object’s imminent encounter with Sgr A* (or at least its accretion flow). I have a minuscule quote but anyway it’s a great article about a very interesting event, that we hope will shed some new light on our Galactic Center’s supermassive black hole (and my personal favorite black hole…). http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/science/its-snack-time-in-the-cosmos.html?src=dayp&_r=0

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