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Using Small Black Holes To Detect Big Black Holes
An international team of astrophysicists with participation of the University of Zurich proposes a novel method to detect pairs of the biggest black holes found at the centers of galaxies by analyzing gravitational waves generated by binaries of nearby small stellar black holes.
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EuroHPC Extreme Scale Access Award
Prof. Lucio Mayer is a PI of a European project that gained his team and his collaborators at UniBasel a EuroHPC Extreme Scale Access Award. This is the largest ever supercomputig allocation granted in Europe to a science project across all disciplines.
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George Lake Technology Innovation Award
GEORGE LAKE AWARD
This November, the first round of applications to the new George Lake Award are expected. The new award was created by the Merac Foundation in collaboration with our current Director Lucio Mayer to honour the memory of ICS founding Director George Lake, to foster novel developments and ideas in instruments, computer simulations and data analysis/AI for astrophysics and cosmology.