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January 29, 2011
Center for Gravitation and Cosmology hosts Gravitational-wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop
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Center to lead major research effort in gravitational waves.
Posted on December 28, 2011
Researchers in the CGCA were awarded $9,000,000 by the National
Science Foundation to develop and operate the LIGO Data Grid, a distributed
computational facility to analyze data from the worldwide network of
gravitational-wave detectors including LIGO. Gravitational waves remain an
elusive prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The Advanced
LIGO instruments will begin the search for gravitational waves around 2015.
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Center for Gravitation and Cosmology hosts Gravitational-wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop
Posted on January 29, 2011
More than 160 scientists attended the “Gravitational-wave Physics and
Astronomy Workshop" (GWPAW) hosted by UWM’s Center for Gravitation and
Cosmology on Jan 26-29.
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Brady named American Physical Society Fellow
Posted on December 3, 2010
Patrick Brady, UWM physics professor, and director of UWM's Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, has been elected a Fellow of the APS.
This honor is in recognition of Brady's pioneering contributions to gravitational-wave physics and for studies that deepened our understanding of singularities and of critical collapse.
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Xavier Siemens awarded two prestigious NSF grants
Posted on November 6, 2010
Xavier Siemens, a physicist at the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, has been awarded two prestigious grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), both related to his work in the international effort to detect gravitational waves.
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Jolien Creighton receives UWM Graduate School Research Award
Posted on August 28, 2010
Associate Professor Creighton has been awarded the 2010 UWM Foundation and Graduate School Research Award. This award recognizes UWM professors who have shown the potential to achieve distinction in their academic disciplines.
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Einstein@Home 'citizen scientists' discover a new pulsar
Posted on August 13, 2010
Idle computers are the astronomers’ playground: Three citizen scientists – a German and an
American couple – have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo
Observatory.
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Center for Gravitation and Cosmology hosts Alt Grav Workshop
Posted on June 01, 2010
Over 40 scientists attended the Alt Grav Workshop, “Gravitational Wave Tests
of Alternative Theories of Gravity in the Advanced Detector Era", hosted by
UWM’s Center for Gravitation and Cosmology on May 26 and 27.
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Second UWM researcher named Bradley Fellow
Posted on November 5, 2009
Jessica Clayton, a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, has been named a 2009-2011 Bradley Fellow. This is the third year UWM has been included in the prestigious Bradley Fellowship Program.
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New Associate or Senior Scientist Positions at UWM LSC
Posted on October 14, 2009
The gravitational-wave research group is seeking Scientists to design, develop, deploy, and integrate cuting edge computing and data center technologies into the LIGO Data Grid.
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UWM physicists aid new insight into early universe
Posted on August 24, 2009
A paper published in the journal Nature on August 20 reports new analysis of measurements by the LIGO
Scientific Collaboration. In particular, Xavier Siemens and Warren Anderson made significant contributions.
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New Einstein@Home effort launched: thousands of home computers to search Arecibo data for new radio pulsars
Posted on 24 March 2009
Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world’s largest public volunteer distributed computing projects.
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UWM scientists participate in Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop
Posted on 2 February 2009
Several professors, postdocs and graduate students of the UWM LIGO
Group participated in the recent International Workshop about
Gravitational Wave Data Analysis (GWDAW-13). The workshop was held in Puerto Rico
during the week of January 18.
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LIGO project sheds light on cosmic event with help from UWM
Posted on 2 January 2008
An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific
Collaboration, including UWM scientists, has excluded one previously leading explanation for
the origin of an intense gamma-ray burst that occurred last
winter.
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14th Midwest Relativity Meeting
Posted on 23 August 2004
MWRM-14 is being hosted by the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology in the
Physics Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on October 15th - 16th 2004. The sessions
will convene at the UCCE facility on the 7th floor of the Plankinton
Building in downtown Milwaukee. UCCE is operated by the UWM School of
Continuing Education.
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Burst face to face: 6-8 May 2004
Posted on 09 April 2004
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will host the LIGO burst group meeting on Thursday, Friday and Saturday May 6-8, 2004. The meeting will start at 9:30AM on Thursday, May 6. We expect to wrap up the meeting on Saturday, May 8 at or about 2PM.
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Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop 8
Posted on 24 November 2003
The 8th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop (GWDAW-8)
will be held from December 17th-to-20th, 2003, in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop is an annual meeting devoted to data analysis for current and future gravitational wave detectors, studies of potential gravitational wave sources, and detector physics.
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