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…
28th Midwest Relativity Meeting
The 28th Midwest Relativity Meeting will be held Friday and Saturday, 12-13 October 2018 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Each participant in the meetings may present a talk of approximately 10-15 minutes, depending on the total number of talks. We…
EGM21 Best Student Presentation Awards
Congratulations to Laura Johnson of Case Western Reserve University and Oliver Janssen of New York University for winning the Best Student Presentation Awards at this month’s 21st Eastern Gravity Meeting. Laura presented Partially Massless Decoupling Limit of Massive Gravity, and Oliver presented The…
Nominations for the Isaacson Award and APS Einstein Prize
Nominations for both the Einstein Prize and Isaacson Award are open, and the deadline for nominations is June 1, 2018. I encourage you to consider nominating outstanding colleagues for these honors. APS Einstein Prize The next APS Einstein Prize will be…
Summary of the Town Hall Meeting on “Gravitational Wave Theory and Simulations in the Era of Detections”
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…