| · COLUMBIA ASTRO NEWS | |
|
Press releases, unusually important publications,
prizes/fellowships, and other internal news are
announced here.
If you have something newsworthy to report, please email Zoltan
Haiman (zoltan @ astro.columbia.edu)
- 09/23/09: Gordon Bajnai, the prime minister of Hungary made a visit to Prof Szabolcs Marka's Lab in Pupin on Wednesday, where Szabolcs Marka and Zoltan Haiman had a chance to talk to him about their research. The visit received press coverage in the Hungarian media - details and pictures from the visit are available here. - 09/09/09: Daniel Wolf Savin (Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory) and his group have been awarded a major grant from the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program for building a unique laboratory instrument to investigate reactions of neutral atomic carbon with molecular ions as would occur in interstellar space. This project is a part of the scientific program of the Columbia Astrobiology Center. Enabling rate coefficient measurements for the first links in the chain of chemical reactions leading to interstellar organic chemistry, this work will help with both the interpretation of astronomical data on interstellar molecules and the broader questions of the origins of solid material and much of the chemistry that can ultimately end up on the surface of young terrestrial-type planets. | |