Weekly Seminars
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Primordial Universe and Gravity (PUG) Discussions
Mondays, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm via Zoom
Informal discussion of primordial universe and gravity topics. -
International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminar
Tuesdays, 10:00-12:30 am via Zoom
(Meets every other week) -
HEPAP/CMA Seminar
Tuesdays, 1:30 – 2:30 pm via Zoom
Weekly seminar hosted jointly by the Center for Particle Astrophysics and the High Energy Physics Group. -
Fundamental Theory Seminar
Fridays, 9:30-10:30 am via Zoom
Seminars and discussion on classical and quantum gravity as well as cosmology and string theory.
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Upcoming Workshops & Conferences
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Past Workshops & Conferences
- Seventh Physics & Astrophysics at the Extreme (PAX-VII) Workshop, August 23-27, 2021
- First Cosmic Explorer Meeting, October 26-30, 2020
- IGC@25: Multimessenger Universe, June 24-27, 2019
- Loops19 Conference, June 17-21, 2019
- AMON Sixth Workshop, Chiba University, Japan, May 21-22, 2019
- Physics and Astronomy at the eXtreme V/MM-19 Multimessenger Transients, February 7-9, 2019
- Supergravity and M/Superstring Theory in the Ultraviolet and Double Copy, September 6-8, 2018
- Dynamical Horizons, Binary Coalescences, Simulations and Waveforms, July 16-19, 2018
- Physics and Astrophysics at the eXtreme – PAX III, February 5-7, 2018
- GAP XV, July 31-August 4, 2017
- 20th Eastern Gravity Meeting, June 9-10, 2017
- Physics and Astrophysics at the eXtreme, December 1-3, 2016
- Multi-Messenger Approaches to Cosmic Rays: Origins and Space Frontiers, June 20-22, 2016
- 4th Neighborhood Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology, March 31-April 1, 2016
- Workshop on Higher Spin Theories, August 27-29, 2015
- General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective, June 7-12, 2015
- Neighborhood Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology – Part III, March 26-27, 2015
- Workshop on Non-Associativity in Physics and Related Mathematical Structures, May 1-3, 2014
- HETDEX Science Meeting, May 20-21, 2014
- Neighborhood Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology – Part II, April 3-4, 2014
- Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, January 17-19, 2014
- Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) Workshop, October 24-26, 2013
- Workshop on Cosmology and Time, April 16-17, 2013
- Neighborhood Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology, April 4-5, 2013
- Workshop on Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant
- Inaugural Workshop on Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON), October 1-2, 2011
- Inaugural Workshop on Black Holes in Supergravity and M/Superstring Theory, September 9-11, 2010
- Second Workshop on Low Energy Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics with IceCube
- The First Galaxies, Quasars and Gamma-Ray Bursts, June 6-10, 2010
- Focus Session on The Nature of Time in Fundamental Science, November 9-10, 2009
- Supergravity versus Superstring Theory in the Ultraviolet, August 27-30, 2009
- Probing Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves, June 18-20, 2009
- AbhayFest, June 4-6, 2009
- Workshop on Low Energy Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics with IceCube, March 19-20, 2009
- Loop Quantum Cosmology Workshop, October 23-25, 2008
- TeV Unidentified Sources Workshop, June 4-5, 2008
- Topical Workshop on Cosmology: Interplay Between Theory and Observation, May 1-3, 2008
- Topical Workshop on Black Holes in Fundamental Physics, May 8-10, 2008
- Eastern Gravity Meeting, May 12-13, 2008
- IGC Inaugural Conference, August 9-11, 2007
- Gravitation, Cosmos and the Quantum, 5-6 May 2007
- Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos and Photons Workshop, 16-17 May 2007
- Quantum Gravity in the Americas III, 24-26 August 2006
- Gravitation: A Decennial Perspective, 8 – 12 June 2003
- Initial Data for Binary Systems Workshop, 29 – 30 March 2002
- Gravitational Wave Phenomenology Workshop, 6-8 November 2001
This Week’s Seminars
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Monday, Primordial Universe and Gravity (PUG) Discussions, 2:30 PM
Speaker(s): Shomik Adhicary
Title: Advance Alerts from Gravitational Wave Searches of Binary Compact Objects for Electromagnetic Follow-ups. -
Tuesday, International Loop Quantum Gravity Seminar, 10:00 AM
(Meets every other week)
Speaker(s): No Speaker this week.
Title: -
Tuesday, HEPAP/CPGA Seminar, 1:30 PM
Speaker(s): Sunil Gupta, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Title: Probing the electric potential and other properties of a powerful thunderstorm studied by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope at Ooty, India -
Friday, Cosmology/Fundamental Theory Seminar, 9:30 AM
Speaker(s): Leo Tsukada, PSU
Title: First observations of neutron star and black hole mergers
Current News
$3.4 million NSF grant aims to make LIGO multimessenger discoveries commonplace
Chad Hanna was awarded a $3.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop software and services for discovering gravitational waves from black holes and neutron stars in real-time in order to facilitate the detection of prompt electromagnetic counterparts.
Specifically, the funds will be used to develop robust signal processing software and the creation of a suite of cyberinfrastructure services that will allow scientists to analyze LIGO data in real time. The goal is to allow scientists to make more discoveries, as well as be able to easily share those discoveries with the scientific community, which ultimately, will improve our understanding of the universe.
“We hope that this grant will benefit the entire scientific community and that, with it, we’ll make robust detections of increasingly more gravitational waves from neutron star mergers, and other signals that might have electromagnetic or neutrino counterparts,” said Hanna.
Hanna’s group leads efforts to detect gravitational waves in real-time to support multi-messenger astrophysics. The group is also involved with developing detection algorithms and software to identify the neutron star mergers in the gravitational wave data and using machine learning to cut through noisy data gathered during the gravitational wave observations. Both are integral to the real-time infrastructure and improvements will help facilitate future LIGO research. For more details, see PDF file.