Tag: Alyssa A. Goodman

  • Campus & Community

    An inspiration to students

    Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman was named the Harvard Foundation’s 2015 Scientist of the Year.

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  • Campus & Community

    AAAS announces 11 Harvard fellows

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded 11 Harvard faculty members the distinction of being named an AAAS Fellow on Dec. 17.

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  • Science & Tech

    New visualization techniques yield star formation insights

    New computer visualization technology developed by the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing has helped astrophysicists understand that gravity plays a larger role than previously thought in deep space’s vast, star-forming molecular clouds. The insight, to be reported in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Nature, is being illustrated in the journal’s online version through…

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  • Science & Tech

    Visualizing science focus of panel

    The huge load of data now coming from modern computer systems is so overwhelming that new methods must be devised to allow people to visualize the world in more understandable ways, scientists involved in computer graphics areas said in a special symposium today. “What can humans actually understand?” asked Harvard Professor Alyssa Goodman, who arranged…

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  • Science & Tech

    Young star caught speeding

    Findings linking a speeding star to its birthplace provide direct observational support of theoretical simulations predicting that protostars can be tossed out of a young cluster. This is the first time that such a fast-moving young star has been seen outside of a cluster or binary system. Astronomers Alyssa Goodman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and…

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