Graduate student Simon Matin (Physics and Astronomy) was recently awarded a fellowship as part of the Nevada NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship program. This award recognizes Matin's accomplishments thus far and the strength of his proposed ongoing research work. The specific proposed project will simulate measurements of galaxies made with the , currently scheduled to launch in 2027, and the joint signal that can be detected with telescopes on Earth, like the (HERA), a radio telescope in South Africa. These measurements will help inform our understanding of Cosmic Dawn, the period of the Universe's history when the first stars and galaxies formed nearly 13 billion years ago. Matin's research project is supervised by Prof. Paul La Plante in the Department of Computer Science.
