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SUMMARY:NSF ANNOUNCES NEW GRAVITATIONAL WAVE FINDINGS\, Oct 16\, 2017\, DC\, 10:00-12:30 ET (webcast)
DESCRIPTION:The National Science Foundation (NSF) will hold a media event on October 16\, 2017 at the National Press Club\, Holeman Lounge\, in Washington\, D.C. from 10:00 am – 12:30 pm ET to announce new findings about gravitational waves from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave (LIGO)\, VIRGO and other observatories. \nThe event will be webcast. \nPanel 1\, 10:00 am ET:  France Cordova\, Director\, NSF\, moderator \n\nDavid Reitze\, executive director\, LIGO Laboratory/Caltech\nDavid Shoemaker\, spokesperson\, LIGO Scientific Collaboration/MIT\nJo van den Brand\, spokesperson\, Virgo Collaboration/Nikhef\, VU University Amsterdam\nJulie McEnery\, Fermi Project scientist\, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center\nMarica Branchesi\, Virgo Collaboration/Gran Sasso Science Institute\, Italy\nVicky Kalogera\, astrophysicist\, LIGO Scientific Collaboration/Northwestern University\n\nPanel 2\, 11:15 am ET :  Jim Ulvestad\, Acting Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences\, NSF\, moderator \n\nLaura Cadonati\, deputy spokesperson\, LIGO Scientific Collaboration/Georgia Tech\nAndy Howell\, staff scientist at Las Cumbres Observatory/UC-Santa Barbara\nRyan Foley\, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics\, University of California-Santa Cruz\nMarcelle Soares-Santos\, assistant professor\, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory/Brandeis University\nDavid Sand\, assistant professor in astronomy\, University of Arizona\nNial Tanvir\, professor of astrophysics\, University of Leicester\, UK\nEdo Berger\, professor of astronomy\, Harvard University\nEleonora Troja\, research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland\nAlessandra Corsi\, assistant professor\, Department of Physics and Astronomy\, Texas Tech University\n\nMore information is in NSF’s press release. \nThree U.S. physicists — Rainier Weiss\, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish — just won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of gravitational waves.
URL:https://spacepolicyonline.com/events/nsf-announces-new-gravitational-wave-findings-oct-16-2017-dc-1000-1230-et-webcast/
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