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Domenica Garzon has been awarded the FGSA Underrepresented Minority Travel Award to present at the 2026 APS Global Physics Summit (Feb. 2026).

Posted on February 18, 2026February 18, 2026 by fpardoe2@illinois.edu

Congratulations Domenica!

Domenica Garzon received a travel award from the Niels Bohr Institute to attend and present her research at the Nordic Winter School on Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (25–30 Jan 2026).

Posted on February 11, 2026February 18, 2026 by fpardoe2@illinois.edu

The Nordic Winter School on Black Holes and Gravitational Waves is an advanced theoretical physics PhD school focused on gravitational physics and astrophysical gravitational waves. Congratulations Domenica!

Paper by Cheng-Hsin, Giuseppe and Helvi on “Dephasing in binary black hole mergers surrounded by scalar wave dark matter clouds” has been published in Physical Review D – Congratulations!

Posted on February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 by fpardoe2@illinois.edu

Congratulations Cheng-Hsin, Giuseppe and Helvi! The published paper can be found here: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/715r-4p7g

Carolina Benone visiting with Fulbright Scholarship

Posted on February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 by fpardoe2@illinois.edu

Prof. Carolina Benone from the Federal University of Para – Salinopolis is visiting Hector O. Silva’s group and our department until March with a Fulbright Scholarship. Welcome Carolina!

Aastha Bagree joins our group

Posted on February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 by fpardoe2@illinois.edu

Aastha joining the Witek Gravity group as a graduate student. Aastha is the Carver Fellow by the Grainger Graduate College of Engineering and will be working with us on on a project to study the effect of a homogenous scalar cloud in a spinning binary black hole environment, and waveform catalog. Welcome, Aastha!

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Domenica Garzon has been awarded the FGSA Underrepresented Minority Travel Award to present at the 2026 APS Global Physics Summit (Feb. 2026).

Domenica Garzon received a travel award from the Niels Bohr Institute to attend and present her research at the Nordic Winter School on Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (25–30 Jan 2026).

Paper by Cheng-Hsin, Giuseppe and Helvi on “Dephasing in binary black hole mergers surrounded by scalar wave dark matter clouds” has been published in Physical Review D – Congratulations!

Carolina Benone visiting with Fulbright Scholarship

Aastha Bagree joins our group

Freddy H. passes his preliminary PhD exam.

Domenica passes her preliminary PhD exam.

Group social at Riggs’s Brewery Christmas Market

Helvi visits Louisiana State University to give a colloquium, and visitsLIGO Livingston in October 2025.

Helvi visits the University of Mississippi in Oxford for a colloquium.