Luca Comisso

Physicist exploring the mysteries of plasmas in extreme conditions and high-energy astrophysical phenomena @Columbia | he/him

[Columbia Science @ColumbiaScience]

"A real breakthrough in the field."

Learn about a new finding from @LucaComisso about the source of the vast energy in cosmic rays.

https://t.co/diMyMcaNMC

[Luca Comisso @LucaComisso]

@david_kipping Congratulations, David!

[Luca Comisso @LucaComisso]

Such a sad news today..

[Simons Foundation @SimonsFdn]

It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legendary investor and a generous philanthropist. https://t.co/w48DhauUVj

[Luca Comisso @LucaComisso]

@dtrottao Congratulazioni Domenico!

[Janna Levin @JannaLevin]

In the midst of a seizure, a young man falls onto the subway tracks as a train barrels into the station. In a split second, a bystander throws himself off the platform to flatten the young man down between the rails with his own body in the hopes the train will pass overhead without killing either of them. They both survive. Altruism, the subject of my first episode as co-host on The Joy of Why, a podcast from @QuantaMagazine with incredible guest Stephanie Preston @prestostwit, our fab editors @7homaslin @johnrennie, co-host @stevenstrogatz there in spirit, and the awesome team @prx https://t.co/1aUwaYyMcc

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

On March 7, 2023, when astronomers detected the second-brightest gamma-ray burst yet seen, NASA’s burst-locating Swift satellite was pointed elsewhere. Astronomers quickly employed probes around the solar system to fill the observational gap. https://t.co/eelosqjK2t

[IceCube Neutrino Observatory @uw_icecube]

🎉 Congratulations to former IceCube collaborator Dr. Azadeh Keivani on receiving the Spring 2024 FIAP Career Lectureship Award! She and her collaborators at other observatories discovered the first evidence of an astrophysical high-energy neutrino source in 2017.

[Luca Comisso @LucaComisso]

@morethanpriors @joonas_nattila I’m very glad you were able to come!

[Brian Metzger @bluekilonova]

We have postdoc fellowships available in the @ColumbiaThea group. Please apply!

https://t.co/5MuEH1j6al

[DOE Office of Technology Commercialization @OTCatDOE]

Recently @PoweredbyDOE visited @PPPLab in Princeton, NJ, where she met with Lab Director Steven Cowley & she toured the facilities. She was given a sneak peek into the MUSE stellarator; a permanent magnet prototype to be built at PPPL in the near future! ⚡🔬

[MEDIA INAF @mediainaf]

Il telescopio spaziale #Ixpe ha osservato il blazar Markarian 421, vecchia conoscenza degli astronomi che scrutano l’universo estremo, per sondare la complessa geometria del campo magnetico e l’accelerazione delle particelle nei suoi getti relativistici ⤵️
https://t.co/91GAfoQQ74

[Brian Metzger @bluekilonova]

A random tidbit is that the conference where Wheeler said he first heard the term "black hole" (from an audience member he could later not recall) was NASA GISS, i.e. above Tom's Diner a.k.a. the Seinfeld diner. A fact I bet even the most hardcore Seinfeld fans don't know.

[NASA @NASA]

Here it is: @NASAWebb’s one-year anniversary image. Called Rho Ophiuchi, this area shows about 50 young stars in a cocoon of gas and dust. At 390 light-years away, it's the closest star-forming region to Earth: https://t.co/A3e2XLx9Ef

Webb continues to #UnfoldTheUniverse.

[Vivian U @JustTheLetterU]

Mood

[Claire Lamman @ClaireLamman]

Made some cookies to celebrate the @NANOGrav announcement! Fortunately you don't need pulsars to detect these #GravitationalWaves (a mouth works fine)

[Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro @paco_astro]

The CAMELS project keeps growing. We have made publicly available 2,124 hydrodynamic simulations of CAMELS-ASTRID; a new suite run with the MP-Gadget code using the ASTRID subgrid physics model. All the data is accessible through globus and binder at @FlatironInst

[Luca Comisso @LucaComisso]

@morethanpriors Thank you Michael! It is a simple and clean idea. Emanuele came with this application, and it has been fun thinking about it

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

Students taking a first course in nonlinear dynamics and chaos (or anyone curious about the subject): Videos of lectures are freely available. Hope you enjoy them! https://t.co/jcDF9H7pQd

[Columbia Physics Department @PhysicsColumbia]

Congratulations Dr. Samuel Goldstein, Dr. Angelo Esposito, Dr. Oliver Philcox, Dr. Lam Hui, Dr. J. Colin Hill, Dr. Roman Scoccimarro, Dr. Maximilian Abitbol for the 2022 Buchalter Cosmology Prize!
https://t.co/pn7imjOtKq
@jcolinhill @ColumbiaScience @Columbia

[Brian Metzger @bluekilonova]

https://t.co/qF71Z7wKaa Summary of our recent paper with Jenni Barnes.