Congratulations to the 2018 APS Fellows, many of whom have contributed to gravitational physics! The nominations from the Division of Gravitational Physics were: Rana Adhikari, Lisa Barsotti, Stephen Fulling, Lawrence Kidder, and Andrew Strominger. Another 6 members of DGRAV were nominated by other…
Month: October 2018
2019 Einstein Prize awarded to Abhay Ashtekar
Congratulations to Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State), the recipient of the 2019 Einstein Prize. The Einstein prize is awarded by the APS to recognize outstanding accomplishments in the field of gravitational physics. Prof. Ashtekar is highly deserving of this award, as…
MRM28 Best Student Presentation Award
Congratulations to Maya Fishbach of the University of Chicago for winning the Best Student Presentation Award at this month’s 28th Midwest Relativity Meeting. Maya presented A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from GW170817 without the electromagnetic counterpart. See more about…