Posted on 5 November 2009
Jessica Clayton, a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM), has been named a 2009-2011 Bradley Fellow. This is the third year UWM has been included in the prestigious Bradley Fellowship Program for graduate and postgraduate students.
Posted on 14 October 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. These positions are fixed-term academic staff (non-faculty) positions; salaries will be commensurate with the level of appointment and the experience of the candidate. A Ph.D. in Physics or related field is required for these positions. The candidate will have demonstrated research experience in gravitational physics, high-energy physics, grid computing or other scientific computing. Supervisory experience would be an advantage.
Posted on 24 August 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, UWM assistant professor of physics, and Warren Anderson, associate scientist in UWM’s Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, made significant contributions.
Posted on 19 May 2009
Professor Leonard Parker and Research Associate Iván Agulló of the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology have received the fourth Gravity Research Foundation Award for Essays On Gravitation. The winning essay is “Inflation, Quantum Fields, and CMB Anisotropies” and is also coauthored by former UWM postdoc Gonzalo J. Olmo (CSIC, Spain) and José Navarro-Salas (University of Valencia, Spain).
Posted on 1 May 2009
After class, while many undergraduates are kicking back and reaching for the TV remote control, three students at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) are taking remote control of the world’s largest radio telescope – from their computers in the Physics Building.
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. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the project and donated time on their computers to search gravitational wave data for signals from unknown pulsars.
Posted on 9 February 2009
On Monday 2 February 2009, Astronomy Club started back up for the semester. At 7:10 pm, a group of 19 regular attendees met in the planetarium for a presentation on the winter skies by Jean Creighton. Although the previous meeting had been on December 8th--nearly two months ago--the organizers were pleased to find that Astronomy Club was still able to attract a large crowd.
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 main goal of the conference was strengthening the connection between gravitational wave data analysis and traditional observational astrophysics. The workshop was held in Puerto Rico during the week of January 18.
Posted on 2 January 2008
An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration, including University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) scientists, has excluded one previously leading explanation for the origin of an intense gamma-ray burst that occurred last winter.
Posted on 12 November 2007
UWM Professor Luis Anchordoqui and the rest of the Pierre Auger Collaboration may have just solved one of the greatest mysteries of modern astrophysics - what is the origin of cosmic rays? Cosmic rays are particles of astounding energy that bombard the Earth from all direction in space.
Posted on 14 August 2007
The Einstein@Home Project (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/) is seeking to fill a post doc position at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu), starting as soon as possible. Einstein@Home is a public distributed computing project that utilizes compute cycles donated by the general public to analyze data collected by the gravitational wave detectors of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in search of continuous gravitational wave signals. The successful candidate will work on various aspects of the project, including the design and development of searches, and the post-processing and analysis of the incoming results. Applicants should have a PhD in Physics, good computer skills, experience with Linux and C/C++ programming, be highly motivated, and good team players.
Posted on 24 October 2004
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) are making great strides toward performing scientifically significant data analysis using Grid resources. LIGO is using the occasion of SC2004 to undertake a production analysis of data from its third science run (S3) searching for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars and black holes using Pegasus to manage the workflow. Scott Koranda (Univ. of WIsconsin-Milwaukee) is the central LIGO participant in this demo. Patrick Brady, Duncan Brown, Jolien Creighton, Stephen Fairhurst and Eirini Messaritaki (also from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) contributed the analysis software and workflow used in the Demo. Download the brochure [ PDF ] for more information about the Demo.
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.
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.
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.
