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UWM joins a NASA-backed search for cosmic rays
5 March 2013
Scientists from five U.S. institutions, including the Luis Anchordoqui and Tom Paul from the Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, are gearing up for a landmark study of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays – the world’s rarest and most energetic subatomic particles. It is the first time the particles will be recorded from space as they collide with the Earth’s atmosphere.
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First image from final Murchison Widefield Array installation
September 16, 2012
The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a new radio telescope under construction
in Western Australia. We have just achieved a substantial milestone in
commissioning the first portion of the full array, hopefully to be finished
within the next 6 months. CGCA member Prof. David Kaplan is working to help
commission the Array, which he plans to use to study cosmic transients and
pulsars.
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Most distant spiral galaxy
July 30, 2012
CGCA member Prof. Dawn Erb was part of a team of astronomers
who have discovered the universe’s oldest spiral galaxy. This
cosmic structure is estimated to date back 10.7 billion years,
and their research was recently published in Nature.
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Center to lead major research effort in gravitational waves.
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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Luis Anchordoqui awarded prestigious CAREER grant by the National Science Foundation
September 30, 2011
Luis Anchordoqui, a physicist at the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, has
been awarded a prestigious Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant from the
National Science Foundation.
Anchordoqui will use the $400,000 award to develop
methods by which a certain class of new theories beyond the Standard Model of
Particle Physics might be tested at the Large Hadron Collider.
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UWM physics professors Jolien Creighton and Warren Anderson release new book on gravitational-waves
September 14, 2011
UWM Associate Professor Jolien Creighton and Visiting Professor Warren Anderson have recently released 'Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy', a book which both develops the theory of gravitational-wave physics and explores some observational techniques in great detail.
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Satellite of M31 Evidently Devoured by Bloodthirsty Aliens
August 12, 2011
The galaxy M110 - a satellite of the Andromeda galaxy, neighbour of the Milky Way in the Local Group - has disappeared from an image of Andromeda accompanying the release of Apple's Mac OS X Lion last month, says UWM astronomer David Kaplan. Was it devoured by hungry aliens? Dr. Kaplan offers a more prosaic explanation.
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UWM researchers win prestigious Gravitation Award
May 20, 2011
UWM Professor Leonard Parker and former Research Associate Iván Agulló
have received the prestigious First Award in the Gravity Essay
competition from the Gravity Research Foundation (GRF).
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Hunting for the Milky Way's Heaviest Stars
April 28, 2011
A new study conducted by several astronomers, including UWM Assistant
Professor David Kaplan, has found evidence for a plentiful population
of X-ray emitting massive stars in the Milky Way.
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Center for Gravitation and Cosmology hosts Gravitational-wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop
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
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
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
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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Welcomes and Farewells
August 27, 2010
This summer, the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology welcomes seven
new postdocs Stefanos Giampanis, Brennan Hughey, Jeffrey Kline,
Richard O'Shaughnessy, Branson Stephens, Ralf Kotulla and Atish Kamble and two new faculty Dawn
Erb and David Kaplan.
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Einstein@Home 'citizen scientists' discover a new pulsar
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
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
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
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
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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UWM Physics Professor Leonard Parker releases new book on Quantum field theory
August 1, 2009
UWM Distinguished Professor Leonard Parker has recently released 'Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime', a book which develops quantum field theory in curved spacetime in a pedagogical style.
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UWM researchers win prestigious Gravitation Award
19 May 2009
Professor Leonard Parker and Research Associate Iván Agulló have received the fourth Gravity Research Foundation Award for Essays On Gravitation. The winning essay is “Inflation, Quantum Fields, and CMB Anisotropies”.
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Physics undergrads use radio waves to search for elusive gravitational waves
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.
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New Einstein@Home effort launched: thousands of home computers to search Arecibo data for new radio pulsars
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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Astronomy Club Resumes for the Spring Semester
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.
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UWM scientists participate in Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop
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
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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Closing in on the origin of cosmic rays
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?
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Post-doctoral research position for the Einstein@Home project at UWM
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.
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LIGO-GriPhyN Demo at Supercomputing 2004
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.
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14th Midwest Relativity Meeting
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
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
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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