Gravity and astrophysics at UMiss

Hi,

A few of us were at the APS meeting in Washington D.C. this week. It was a very good meeting, lots of astronomy, gravity, black holes and gravitational waves! On Tuesday afternoon, after the last session I finally had a couple of hours to do a little sightseeing. I have been many times in D.C., but never I had a chance of visiting the Jefferson memorial. Inside the dome, four panels show quotations from Thomas Jefferson. One of these panels, in particular, includes a quotation that I believe is worth remembering these days: “No man […] shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief”

Marco

On January 13, in response to the call of the European Space Agency (ESA) for L3 mission concepts, the LISA Mission consortium submitted the proposal for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

A copy of the proposal is freely available for download here, and it was also posted to the arXiv. You can show your support for the LISA mission by signing up on this website.

Professor Maurício Richartz (Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil) was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to visit our group.

Professor Richartz will visit our department for about four months, two in the Spring 2017 (starting on January 24) and two in the Fall 2017. On February 7 he will give a colloquium for the Physics Department with title “Analogue Black Holes: Theory and Experiments”.

Congratulations and welcome to Oxford!