The National Science Foundation funds coordinated proposals to start the Cosmic Explorer Design Phase
The National Science Foundation awarded funding to a set of coordinated proposals submitted by members of the Cosmic Explorer Project — a […]
Cosmic Explorer Project Submits a White Paper in Response to NSF’s Next Generation Gravitational-Wave Committee’s Call
The National Science Foundation (NSF) appointed a sub-committee next-generation Gravitational Wave committee (ngGW) of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee (MPSAC) to assess and recommend configurations […]
Astro2020 Decadal Survey: A Resounding Endorsement for Cosmic Explorer
The National Academies’ 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics resoundingly endorsed Cosmic Explorer, stating that a next-generation gravitational-wave observatory in the United States […]
Back at LIGO Hanford Observatory
After 2 years of COVID travel restrictions I finally made it back to the LIGO Hanford Observatory. A lot has changed in […]
DAWN VI meeting
We just wrapped up the DAWN VI meeting on the next-generation of ground-based gravitational-wave observatories. We had a number of highly interesting […]
The first Cosmic Explorer Meeting
We just wrapped up the first Cosmic Explorer Meeting. Numerous panels dove into the scientific potential and the design challenges for this […]
Black hole mergers, cataloged
Ok, I have to give up remembering all merger event names…. In the LVK collaboration we just published the O3a Gravitational Wave […]
Remembering Joshua Goldberg
On the same day the 2020 Nobel Price for Physics was announced, I learned that my SU colleague and dear friend Joshua […]
Research
Top image caption: The reaction of graduate student Alexa Staley to the first full lock of the Advanced LIGO Hanford detector. My early […]
Gravitational waves – at last!
In an announcement that National Science Board (NSB) chair Dr. Dan Arvizu called “one of the coolest discoveries in decades“, the LIGO and VIRGO […]