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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. 

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

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.

Dynamics of COVID-19: Near- and Long-Term Challenges

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

Drawdown Georgia team

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are leading a first-in-the-nation effort to help identify solutions to help reduce Georgia’s carbon footprint in ways that are economically beneficial.

Christine Conwell, former managing director of the Center for Chemical Evolution

Christine Conwell helped turn the Center for Chemical Evolution from an idea to a well-established research organization devoted to studying the origins of life. Her leadership over nearly 10 years won her the 2020 Outstanding Achievement in Research Enterprise Enhancement Award.