My apologies for letting you know so late! In the previous year a very important paper appeared which partially used results from the Universe@Home project.

An international cooperation led by prof. Belczynski investigated the importance of different evolutionary scenarios leading to a double neutron star merger. The work was motivated by the ground-breaking discovery of GW170817 made by LIGO/Virgo collaboration (see e.g. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/press-release-gw170817). The scenarios included the isolated binary evolution which was exclusively calculated on U@H. The simulations showed that among currently considered formation scenarios this one is the most promising. Such a result may lead to a larger interest put in isolated binary evolution simulations and, consequently, to the results obtained thanks to the cooperation of thousands of U@H volunteers.

The original work can be found for example here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00632

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Grzegorz Wiktorowicz
National Astronomical Observatories,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

That is quite satisfying. I am sure you can think of other interesting scenarios to work on also.

Actually, we think about it. For example, study on the involvement of quark stars in the GW170817 event is a part of the QuarkStars application. Although it is much more complicated than the classical isolated binary evolution, some results may appear soon.

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Grzegorz Wiktorowicz
National Astronomical Observatories,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

U@H needs to continue to maintain and promote itself as a valuable asset recognized by the scientific community in order to solidify it's future goals to be eligible for funding.
This is a great step in the right direction.

Hola amigos. Saludos desde Acapulco México.Estubo interezante la caminata espacial.