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- ️Fri Mar 20 2020
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Department News
Sihao Cheng Receives International Astrostatistics Association Award for Outstanding Publication
Sihao Cheng, a graduate student in the department working with Associate Professor Brice Ménard, has won the 2020 International Astrostatistics Association award for the Outstanding Publication in Astrostatistics led by a graduate student. Only one student is selected for this honor every two years. The publication that earned Cheng this recognition is titled “A new approach to […]
Space@Hopkins Virtual Symposium – Video Now Available
Space@Hopkins, led by Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Chuck Bennett, connects the array of Johns Hopkins University divisions, departments, and collaborative institutions in their common pursuit of civilian space research. The 2020 Space@Hopkins Virtual Symposium video features astronaut Captain Reid Wiseman (JHU WSE ‘06) and five Space@Hopkins seed grant recipients.
Women in Physics & Astronomy Spotlight – Video Now Available
JHU Physics and Astronomy Advisory Council welcomed three of the department’s cutting-edge scientists to share their research via Zoom. This video allows viewers to learn first-hand about the exciting research being conducted by a graduate student, a postdoctoral fellow and a faculty member. Featuring: Melissa DiamondMelissa is a graduate student working with Dr. David Kaplan. […]
Jared Kaplan’s Research Selected for Best Paper Award by Neural Information Processing Systems
A paper on research by Jared Kaplan and colleagues has been selected by the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) for a Best Paper Award. This is one of the most prestigious awards a paper can win in the world of Artificial Intelligence. The paper describes GPT-3, the largest and most sophisticated language model ever constructed. It demonstrates […]