An award, sponsored by the Division of Gravitational Physics, for best presentation by a student will be made at each of the following annual regional meetings: Midwest Relativity Meeting East Coast Gravity Meeting Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting Pacific Coast Gravity…
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2018 APS Fellows
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…
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…
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…
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…
MWRM27 Best Student Presentation Award (Blue Apple prize)
Congratulations to Katelyn Breivik of Northwestern University for winning the Blue Apple Prize at last week’s 27th Midwest Relativity Meeting. Katie presented Revealing the Milky Way’s black hole population with Gaia. See more about the Best Student Presentation Awards and the past…
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to LIGO architects
Dear DGRAV Members, The Division of Gravitational Physics congratulates DGRAV members Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne for winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics! The prize recognizes their crucial leadership in envisioning, designing, and building LIGO. Of course, many…