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…
Slides from the 2018 business and town hall meetings
We had a number of presentations at the DGRAV Business meeting and GW Town Hall meeting. You can download the slides by following the links below: DGRAV Business (Berti, Horowitz, Lovelace, Berger) Views from the NSF (Pedro Marronetti) LIGO-Virgo: Status and 5-year…
Pedro Marronetti’s NSF slides from April APS 2018
Pedro Marronetti (NSF) gave us an update during the DGRAV business meeting on what’s happening with gravity programs within the NSF. You can download Pedro’s 2018 slides here: Views NSF – APS April 2018.
DGRAV Election Results
The DGRAV elections have now been concluded. Thank you to all candidates who agreed to run in these elections, and congratulations to the newly elected Executive Committee members: Vice Chair: Nico Yunes Members-at-large: Jess McIver and Michael Lam Student Representative: Belinda Cheeseboro Additionally,…
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…
21st Eastern Gravity Meeting
The 21st Eastern Gravity Meeting, hosted by Long Island University–Brooklyn, will be held Thursday, May 24 and Friday, May 25, 2018 in Brooklyn, NY. For further information, registration and abstract submission, see http://relativity.liu.edu/egm21/. This annual regional meeting is open to researchers of all…