Gravitational wave astronomy is finally a reality. The first multi-messenger observation of a binary neutron star merger (GW170817) was one of the biggest science stories of 2017, and binary black hole detections are becoming routine. However there is still a…
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PCGM34 Best Student Presentation Award
Congratulations to Maria (Masha) Okounkova of Caltech for winning the Best Student Presentation Award at last week’s 34th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting. Masha presented On choosing the start time of binary black hole ringdown. See more about the Best Student Presentation Awards and the past…
Numerical Relativity beyond General Relativity, Benasque, Spain
The international workshop “Numerical Relativity beyond General Relativity” will be held at the Benasque Science Center (Spain) on June 3-9, 2018. With the first detections of gravitational waves, we have entered an exciting new era in gravitational physics that enables…
EGM20 Best Student Presentation Awards
Congratulations to Beatrice Bonga of Penn State and Rahul Kashyap of U Mass Dartmouth for winning the Best Student Presentation Awards at this month’s 20th Eastern Gravity Meeting. Beatrice presented On the Conceptual Confusion in the Notion of Transverse-Traceless Modes, and Rahul…
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Welcome to the Homepage of the APS Division of Gravitational Physics (DGRAV). Gravitational physics as always been a central player in the development of our understanding of Nature. Beginning with Galileo’s studies of falling objects, to Kepler’s deduction that the…
IUPAP Relativity & Gravitation Young Scientist Award
Dear Colleagues Nominations for the 2015 IUPAP General Relativity and Gravitation Young Scientist Prize are now open. NOTE: The primary nominator must be a member of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG) but the nominee and seconders…