Gravity and astrophysics at UMiss

Congratulations to Laleh Sadeghian from Washington University in Saint Louis (but currently at the University of Florida), who won the Blue Apple Award at the 7th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting with the talk “Dark matter distributions around massive black holes: A fully general relativistic approach”.

You can find Laleh’s talk (as well as the other talks) here.

Thanks to all participants, and see you soon at the next GCGM!

The 7th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting started this morning in a somewhat unseasonably chilly Oxford. A (much needed) warm welcome to all participants!

Today (4/9/2013) Davide Gerosa has successfully defended his Laurea thesis “Black hole spin alignment in astrophysical environments” at the University of Milan (Italy) with a final grade of 110/110 e lode (full marks with honors). The thesis - supervised jointly by Professors Giuseppe Lodato (Milan) and Emanuele Berti (Ole Miss) - is available here, and it is based on work published in these two papers. Davide will soon move to Cambridge (UK) to work on his Ph.D. with Ulrich Sperhake, who is also an Adjunct Professor at Ole Miss. Great job Davide!

We are pleased to announce that Shivaraj Kandhasamy from the LIGO group at the University of Minnesota will join the UMISS group this coming fall. Shivaraj will be in residence primarily at the LIGO site in Livingston Louisiana to work on detector characterization and data analysis. Welcome, Shivaraj!

Less than two weeks to the 7th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting, that will take place in Oxford on April 19-20! Check out the conference website and the preliminary program.

See you soon in Oxford!