Jeff Ratzloff wins UNC’s Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award

We are excited to announce that Jeff Ratzloff, the Evryscope mechanical designer and leader of our compact-objects and fast-transiting-exoplanets programs, has been selected to receive the 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering. The Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes the highest level of graduate student scholarship at UNC Chapel Hill; there is one award in physical sciences and mathematics each year.

Evryscope @ AAS 2020

The Evryscope team are presenting new surveys and results @ AAS 2020:

Hank Corbett talking about his fast transient survey, including EFTE, his minute-cadence all-sky transient detection and followup system Surveys and Large Programs I, Jan 5, 2:00pm-2:10pm
Measurement of the Bright and Fast Transient Foreground with the Evryscope Fast Transient Engine
H. Corbett, N. Law, R. Gonzalez, A. Vasquez Soto, J. Ratzloff, W. Howard, A. Glazier, N. Galliher
Amy Glazier, eclipse timing variations survey. Ask her too about her recent paper on superflares from TRAPPIST-1! 170.19. Evryscope Searches for Circumbinary Planets, January 5, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm.
Alan Vasquez, searching for solar-system moving objects with Evryscope 278.02, A New Near Earth Object Survey using the Evryscopes, Jan. 6 5:30-6:30.
Nathan Galliher, young star variability with Evryscope 110.22. Evryscope-South Survey of Young Upper-main and Pre-main Sequence Solar Neighborhood Stars, January 5, 9:00 am – 10:00 am