{"607562":{"#nid":"607562","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tamara Bogdanovic is 2018 Leddy Family Faculty Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Sciences has selected \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/tamara-bogdanovic\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETamara Bogdanovic\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to receive\u0026nbsp;the 2018 Leddy Family Faculty Fellowship. The award recognizes her outstanding research leadership and educational innovation in high-energy astrophysics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two-year fellowship goes to a faculty member at the associate professor level. The award recognizes proven accomplishments in research and teaching. It is made possible by a generous gift to the College of Sciences by alumnus \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/jeffrey-leddy\u0022\u003EJeffrey A. Leddy\u003C\/a\u003E (B.S. in Physics 1978) and his wife, Pam.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBogdanovic is the second Leddy Family Faculty Fellow. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/566401\u0022\u003EIn 2016, Dan Margalit, professor in the School of Mathematics, was named the inaugural recipient of the award.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am truly honored to have been selected for the 2018 Leddy Family Faculty Fellowship,\u0026rdquo; Bogdanovic says. \u0026ldquo;This award is unexpected but very much appreciated, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of an outstanding researcher, educator, and a colleague, Dan Margalit. I am very grateful to the Leddy family for their generous gift and commitment to research and teaching at Georgia Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026ldquo;Tamara is clearly what one envisions of an exceptional faculty member. She is a person with a remarkable creativity in research, passion for teaching, and serious commitment to increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in science.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBogdanovic focused her early efforts on likely electromagnetic and gravitational wave signatures from the merger of supermassive black hole binaries. No such event has been observed so far. Her work paves the way toward discovery of such a titanic cosmic cataclysm.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, Bogdanovic has facilitated the search for paired supermassive black holes by identifying specific spectroscopic signatures as efficient criteria. Her approach is used by many other researchers to identify from archival data sets candidates for further monitoring and investigation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother phenomenon of interest is tidal disruptions of stars by black holes. When a star is close enough to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces from the black hole disrupt the star. A flash of radiation accompanies the disruption. Recent observations have confirmed Bogdanovic\u0026rsquo;s theoretical predictions about the characteristic spectral signatures of these events.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs an educator, Bogdanovic is passionate about innovation in teaching. She was a member of the task force that reviewed the introductory physics curriculum. In 2017, she organized a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/585515\u0022\u003Ecolloquium series on physics education\u003C\/a\u003E, which helped define the future of introductory physics courses at Georgia Tech. She is proactive in training astrophysics graduate students. The course she developed on high-energy astrophysics is the core foundation for students working with faculty in the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Tamara is clearly what one envisions of an exceptional faculty member,\u0026rdquo; says School of Physics Chair and Professor Pablo Laguna. \u0026ldquo;She is a person with a remarkable creativity in research, passion for teaching, and serious commitment to increasing the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in science.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I couldn\u0026rsquo;t agree more,\u0026rdquo; says College of Sciences Dean and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sutherlandchair.cos.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESutherland Chair\u003C\/a\u003E Paul M. Goldbart. \u0026ldquo;I congratulate Tamara on her selection as the second Leddy Family Faculty Fellow. And I thank the Leddy family for its generous support of the College of Sciences.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBogdanovic was a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow, a 2016 Cottrell Scholar, and a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/566451\u0022\u003E2016 Cullen-Peck Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Award recognizes proven accomplishments in research and teaching"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Sciences selects Tamara Bogdanovic for her outstanding research leadership and educational innovation in high-energy astrophysics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Award recognizes proven accomplishments in research and teaching."}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-07-08 16:23:26","changed_gmt":"2018-07-12 12:31:34","author":"A. 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