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8/1/2024 Aaron will start serving on the NASA IRTF-KECK Users Group (NIKUG) Executive Committee!
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3/25/2024 check out my appearance in the People behind Webb article!
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1/11/2024 The Roman Project announced the members of the Roman's Core Community Surveys Definition Committees. Aaron will serve on the High Latitude Wide Area Survey Definition Committee
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1/11/2024 Aaron continues to serve as co-lead for the NASA Cosmic Origins Program's Galaxies Science Interest Group (Galaxies SIG). 2023-2024 SIG seminar series is underway and the recordings are available on this YouTube Playlist
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10/9/2023 Aaron joined the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) as a Giacconi Fellow in Fall 2023
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7/10/2023 Fly through the CEERS field! NASA Press release "New 3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by Webb" is now available!
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7/5/2023 Podcast Interview Further Together by ORAU is now available!
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3/1/2023 News article on my work from NASA is now available!
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10/19/2022 News article on my work from the Flatiron Institute is now available!
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10/13/2022 Semi-analytic forecasts for Roman is now available!
8/18/2022 Semi-analytic forecasts for JWST: Paper VI is now available!
-- we present a large set of simulated lightcones and explore the predicted clustering statistics
-- all lightcone products are released through an interactive portal FlatHUB!
-- This is the final paper of the Semi-analytic forecasts for JWST series, thank you for all your support!
-- This work plays a role in the planning of the CEERS survey, see this press release article for detail
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JWST media inquiry for Omni TV Cantonese Service at Toronto, Ontario
(live interview I did on behalf of NASA with a Canada-based Chinese-language broadcaster)
-- 8/31/2022 interview is available here , which I present JWST and the contribution from CSA
-- 9/1/2022 interview is available here , which I present JWST's first images and their significance
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8/4/2022 I took part in the discovery of the extremely distant “Maisie’s Galaxy” found by CEERS
-- Press release from multiple institutions for Finkelstein et al. 2022 from Flatiron Institute, UT Austin, etc.
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7/20/2022 I was featured in NASA Goddard's Early Career Scientist Spotlight!
-- I thank the NASA family for this opportunity for me to tell the story of our Universe, JWST, and myself!
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7/21/2022 I gave a Roman Virtual Lecture joinly hosted by JPL, IPAC, STScI, and Goddard
-- recording is available on the event website
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7/18/2022 Distinguished Guest Lecture at the Space Study Program 2022 at Oeiras, Portugal
-- during the nine-week profession workshop hosted by the International Space University
-- recording of the public lecture is available on YouTube
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JWST media inquiry for Voice of America Mandarin Service at Washington, D.C.
(live interview I did on behalf of NASA with a U.S.-based Chinese-language broadcaster)
-- 7/17/2022 interview is available here , which I present the first images from Webb
-- 1/30/2022 interview is available here , which I present the full deployment of Webb and arrival at L2
-- 12/30/2021 interview is available here , which I present the launch and excitment of Webb's future science
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5/11-13/2022 NASA’s Webb Instruments Q&A – official public engagement event on Twitter and Instagram
-- as part of a celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Heritage Month
-- interact with a worldwide audience on Webb and its instruments as JWST subject matter expert
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3/4/2022 Check out my latest interview with Jim Green on NASA's Gravity Assist Podcasts!
-- I thank the NASA family for this opportunity for me to tell the story of our Universe, JWST, and myself!
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2/24/2022 My JWST Forecasts work is featured on the NASA's Official JWST Blog!
-- check it out and learn about how observing teams can make use of these predictions!
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2/24-25/2022 Aaron gave a JWebbinar for the JWST Community with the CEERS Team.
-- The recording is available on the STScI Website
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2/2-4/2022 My latest talk at the latest SAZERAC SIP
Learning the high-redshift Universe is available here
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12/1/2021 The first data release (DR1) from the CEERS collaboration is now available here,
mock galaxy catalogues from Santa Cruz SAM are accessible here
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10/27-28/2021 The SAZERAC SIP on Models and Simulations of High-Redshift Galaxies
took place on October 27-28, 2021. Talks are available here: Day 1, Day 2
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10/20/2021 Check out the latest USF News Story featuring JWST and me!
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8/20/2021 We are oragnizing a SAZERAC SIP on Models and Simulations of High-Redshift Galaxies
Deadline for abstraction submission on September 20th, 2021; Online conference on October 27-28, 2021.
-- This is a great oppurtunity to showcase your work before heading into the Fall 2021 job season!
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5/10/2021 Aaron is awarded the 2021 Richard J. Plano Dissertation Prize for his dissertation work, which consists of Paper I through IV of Semi-analytic forecasts for JWST work series. This is a prize given annually to a PhD graduate who, in the judgment of the physics graduate faculty, wrote the best PhD dissertation in the past year.
-- I am extremely grateful for the heartwarming recognition from Rutgers Physics.
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3/30/2021 Aaron is awarded a JWST Cycle 1 Theory Grant as PI -- ID# 2108,
and is a Co-I on these accepted proposals
ID# 2079,
ID# 2123,
ID# 2426,
ID# 2608,
ID# 2687.
-- Big Congratulations to all collaborators!
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2/1/2021 The new Flatiron Institute Data Exploration and Comparison Hub is now online -- FlatHUB
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11/19/2020 NSF has announced the decommissioning of Arecibo Observatory, special throwback to my time there in 2013 and 2014 with the Undergraduate ALFALFA Team (12/01/2020 update: Arecibo Telescope had collapsed, see Press Release and Footage from NSF for more detail)
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10/5/2020 Started as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Goddard! (remotely though...)
