Welcome to Assistant Professor Kate Dooley, the latest addition to the Physics and Astronomy Department and the LIGO Team. Kate holds a PhD in physics from the University of Florida and comes to UM after a post-doc at the GEO600 gravitational-wave detector in Hannover, Germany, and a post-doc at Caltech. Kate is an experimental physicist working within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Her expertise is in laser physics, optics and design of advanced gravitational-wave detectors. Welcome, Kate!
Friday, July 3, 2015
Cody’s successful Master’s defense
On July 2, Cody Arceneaux successfully defended his Master’s of Science thesis “FScan Code Development for Advanced LIGO Detector Characterization”. Congratulations, Cody!
Friday, June 26, 2015
Energy Boost from Black Holes
Our new Physical Review Letters paper is out. Particles orbiting near a spinning black hole might collide and get ejected with much more energy than previous calculations showed. Read all about it in this APS Physics Focus story, on pro-physik (in German), at the Ole Miss website, at the IST website (in Portuguese)…
Friday, May 29, 2015
Emanuele and Hector in Lisbon
Emanuele and Hector are visiting the GRIT group in Lisbon for a few weeks.
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Dedication of Advanced LIGO
The Advanced LIGO Project was officially dedicated on May 19th in a ceremony held at the LIGO Hanford facility in Richland, Washington. The hunt for gravitational waves is on! Read more at this link .