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Physicist Awarded NSF Grant to Continue Gravitational Wave Detector Research

Sunday, September 18, 2022, By Renée Gearhart Levy

In March 2023, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is set to begin its fourth yearlong observational period. Scientists on site in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, have spent the last two years on hardware and software upgrades to…

STEM

Physicist Stefan Ballmer Named APS Fellow

Tuesday, October 26, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

Stefan W. Ballmer, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He joins 23 previous University faculty members to receive the distinction during the 100 years the award…

STEM

Physics Department Works to Improve Gravitational Wave Detection

Thursday, February 6, 2020, By Dan Bernardi

Albert Einstein first predicted the presence of gravitational waves in 1916 in his general theory of relativity. Fast forward 99 years to 2015, when researchers obtained the first physical confirmation of a gravitational wave generated by two colliding black holes,…

Media Tip Sheets

LIGO Livingston Detector Catches Binary Neutron Star Merger, Says Physics Professor

Thursday, April 25, 2019, By Daryl Lovell

Today, the LIGO Livingston detector and VIRGO detector captured another binary neutron star merger Stefan Ballmer is an associate professor of physics at Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. Below, he answers four key questions about the LIGO/VIRGO detection,…

STEM

Physicist Gabriela González G’95 Reveals How Syracuse Prepared Her to Make Science History

Friday, January 4, 2019, By Rob Enslin

For Gabriela González G’95, life is a honeymoon—to quote a recent country hit. No sooner had the renowned physicist returned from her own honeymoon than she and her husband, fellow Argentinian theorist Jorge Pullin, moved the party to Syracuse in 1989. Swapping…

PBS NewsHour

Neutron Collision Discovery a “Textbook Changer” says PBS NewsHour

Wednesday, October 18, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently spoke with PBS NewsHour about the  discoveries that came from the detection of two neutron stars colliding. The event gave researchers new information regarding…

Associated Press

See What is ‘The Most Spectacular Fireworks in the Universe’

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

When two neutron stars collided, scientists called “the most spectacular fireworks in the universe.” This crash also answered many previously unknown questions, especially the birth of heavy metals such as gold and platinum.  Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of…

The Wall Street Journal

Professor Duncan Brown on Clash of Neutron Stars

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Ellen Mbuqe

Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics, talks to The Wall Street Journal about the creation of heavy metals such as gold and platinum forged in the collision between two neutron stars which . “Gold is forged in the nuclear…

NPR

Cosmic Collision Leads to New Breakthroughs

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Peter Saulson, the Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics  talks to NPR about the groundbreaking discovery of the collision of two neutron stars, revealing that these strange smash-ups are the source of heavy elements such as gold and platinum….

PBS NewsHour

How Syracuse University Physics Professor Duncan Brown Helped Discover a Cosmic Collision

Tuesday, October 17, 2017, By Sawyer Kamman

Go in-depth on the day when Duncan Brown, the Charles Brightman professor of physics, helped discover the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of gold, platinum and other heavy metals.

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