Prof. Stefan W. Ballmer

November 10, 2021November 10, 2021Uncategorized

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 […]

October 10, 2021Uncategorized

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 […]

October 10, 2021Uncategorized

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 […]

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020Uncategorized

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 […]

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020Uncategorized

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 […]

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020Uncategorized

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 […]

January 25, 2020November 3, 2020Uncategorized

Research

Top image caption: The reaction of graduate student Alexa Staley to the first full lock of the Advanced LIGO Hanford detector. My early […]

February 15, 2016February 15, 2016Uncategorized

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 […]

January 25, 2016October 31, 2020Uncategorized

About myself

Top image caption: Winters in the Northeast have their special charm: Landing on the Alton Bay Ice Runway. I am Associate Professor […]