Richard Brito from the GRIT group at CENTRA-IST in Lisbon (Portugal) will visit the gravity group for a month (March 7-April 7). Welcome, Richard!
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Hajime Sotani’s visit
Hajime Sotani visited Oxford for a week (Feb 29-April 4) and delivered a departmental colloquium on “Magnetic Oscillations in Neutron Stars”.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Atsushi Nishizawa joins the gravity group
Atsushi Nishizawa, formerly at the California Insitute of Technology, joined Emanuele’s group in February to work on sources of gravitational waves and tests of general relativity. Welcome, Atsushi!
Saturday, February 13, 2016
We have detected gravitational waves. We did it! (*)
(*) Courtesy of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration.
Kudos to current and past members of the University of Mississippi LIGO Team who helped achieve this momentous result.
Undergraduate students:
Jefferey Atkinson
Daniel Duddleston
Hunter Gabbard
Jared Wofford
Graduate students:
Mohammad (Reza) Afrough
Cody Arceneaux
Jericho Cain
Jun-Qi Guo
Brooke Rankins
John Rock
Post-doctoral researchers:
Alexander Dietz
Shivaraj Kandhasamy
Jocelyn Read
Visiting Scholars:
Martina Adamo
Fabrizia Canfora
Olmo Cerri
Domizia Chericoni
Camillo Cocchieri
Enrico Petrillo
Michele Mancarella
Alessandro Manzotti
Giovanni Rabuffo
Laura Torino
Daniele Trifiro
Michele Valentini
Faculty:
Vitor Cardoso
Marco Cavaglia
Katherine Dooley
IT HAS BEEN A LONG ROAD…BUT SO WORTH IT! MANY THANKS TO YOU ALL!
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Physics Viewpoint: LIGO hears merging black holes
Today Physical Review Letters published a historical paper by the LIGO/Virgo Scientific Collaboration reporting the first detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes. The American Physical Society (APS) asked Emanuele to write a Physics Viewpoint article on this breakthrough event in gravitational physics.
Physics provides daily online-only news and commentary about a selection of papers from the APS journal collection. The website is aimed at the reader who wants to keep up with highlights of physics research with explanations that don’t rely on jargon and technical detail. Viewpoints are commentaries on papers written by prominent experts in their field for an audience with a college-level background in physics.