Saturday, February 28, 2015
Blue Apple Award for Hector Okada da Silva
University of Mississippi graduate student Hector Okada da Silva got a Blue Apple Award for the best student talk at the 8th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting. Here is proof (including the apple itself and a Florida alligator in the role that was of Newton).
Congratulations, Hector!
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015
New paper in Physical Review Letters
Our paper Effective Potentials and Morphological Transitions for Binary Black Hole Spin Precession was published today in Physical Review Letters. The paper provides new analytical understanding of the dynamics of binary black hole systems: we found a new way to understand the precession of the black hole spins and of the orbital angular momentum, and we showed how binaries have phase transitions between different “precessional states”. Two follow-up papers are in preparation.
The lead author of this paper (Mike Kesden) just received a prestigious Sloan Fellowship, an award reserved to “the most promising scientific researchers working today”. Davide Gerosa (formerly a student at Ole Miss, now in Cambridge) won the best poster award at the conference Compact Objects as Astrophysical and Gravitational Probes for a poster based on this paper.
See articles on the Ole Miss website, UT Dallas website, University of Cambridge website, Science Daily, phys.org, Media INAF (in Italian), Astroblogs (in Dutch), RIA (in Russian), Daily News (India), Science World Report, Tech Times, SpaceRef, Space Daily, ECN, R&D, The Daily Galaxy…
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Swamps, Simulations and Mad Drone Skills: Filming ‘LIGO: Generations’
Read the story behind the production of LIGO Generations on space.com: “Swamps, Simulations and Mad Drone Skills” by film director Kai Staats.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Ask Them Anything: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves
In conjunction with the launch of the documentary film “LIGO Generations” on Space.com, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration is hosting an interactive Ask Me Anything (AMA) session at Reddit.com, featuring members of the UM-LIGO group. In addition to LIGO researchers, AMA participants will also meet Kai Staats, the filmmaker who produced “LIGO Generations” and its predecessor, “LIGO: A Passion for Understanding.”
To participate, create an account at reddit.com/r/science (takes only a few seconds) and visit the site Friday to post your questions. See space.com for more details on the event.
Where: www.reddit.com
When: Friday, February 13, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST / -5 GMT