2024 Keto Award

Congratulations to Magda Siwek and Andrew Andrew Saydjari, winners of the 2024 Keto Prize!!

Magda won for her thesis “Signatures of Circumbinary Disk Dynamics in Massive Black Hole Binary Populations.” Her advisor was Lars Hernquist.

Andrew won for his thesis “Statistical Models of the Spatial, Kinematic, and Chemical Complexity of Dust. His advisor was Doug Finkbeiner.

The Eric R. Keto Prize for Graduate Students in Theoretical Astrophysics, endowed with a generous donation by ITC Senior Member Eric Keto, is awarded each year for the best thesis in theoretical astrophysics by a student at the CfA, as selected by the Senior Members of the ITC. The restriction is that the nominated student needs to receive their PhD in the year of the award on a topic in theoretical astrophysics. The student can be from any department within Harvard as long as their advisor is a senior member at the ITC.