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Artificial intelligence holds the power to amplify human creativity and aspirations, turning ideas into realities we once thought impossible. Meet the Georgia Tech experts charting a path forward at NeurIPS 2024.
Have you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a flood of memories? Maybe it’s the tune that was playing during your first dance, or the anthem of a memorable road trip.
The initiative, supported by funding from NSF’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, aims to enhance STEM training for pre-service teachers through immersive summer research experiences.
The School of Physics will launch the new B.S. in Astrophysics program in summer 2025. This new major is the latest addition to the College of Sciences’ academic offerings and responds to increased student demand for courses and research opportunities in astrophysics. A minor in astrophysics will also be offered starting next summer.
Wray will study interstellar objects like asteroids and comets that have formed in other solar systems and traveled to ours. He will also help create a plan to potentially send spacecraft to intercept future interstellar objects. The research could transform how we understand extrasolar planets — without ever leaving our solar system.
On Monday, November 18, Geri Richmond visited Georgia Tech with Chief of Staff in the Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Ariel Marshall (Ph.D. CHEM '14) to meet with students and faculty — and discuss future opportunities for collaboration.
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Researchers have long known that when two galaxies approach each other and merge, the supermassive black holes at their centers form a pair and are eventually expected to merge as well. It is precisely these mergers that are considered one of the sources of the gravitational-wave background — a faint “hum” of spacetime detected in recent years. However, the role played by the geometry of the collision in this process has remained an open question.
Graduate student Sena Ghobadi of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Physics, along with her colleagues, has developed three-dimensional dynamic models of such collisions.
A similar story appeared in Sky & Telescope.
Universe Magazine April 28, 2026Zachary Handlos, senior academic professional in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, explains how weather patterns can lead to conditions conducive to the types of wildfires currently seen in Florida and Georgia.
This piece also appeared in The Washington Post and The Conversation.
Atlanta Journal Constitution April 25, 2026
