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University Integral to Advanced LIGO Success
This week’s inauguration of Advanced LIGO facilities in Richland, Wash., and Livingston, La., is a potent reminder of Syracuse University’s long-standing importance in the international astrophysics community. For nearly 25 years, the University’s participation in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave…
Physicist Wins NSF Award to Advance Scientific Cyberinfrastructure
A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences has received a major grant to upgrade the cyberinfrastructure used by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to search for gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that were first…
Syracuse University physicists, students help prepare precision silicon detector for Switzerland-based international study measuring properties of B meson particles
Syracuse University physicists, students help prepare precision silicon detector for Switzerland-based international study measuring properties of B meson particles November 12, 2007 Sara Millersemortim@syr.edu One of the most fragile detectors for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, a particle…
SU doctoral student will discuss research on gravitational waves and gravitational wave detection in Pathways to Knowledge lecture
SU doctoral student will discuss research on gravitational waves and gravitational wave detection in Pathways to Knowledge lectureFebruary 20, 2001Judy Holmesjlholmes@syr.edu Andri M. Gretarsson, a physics doctoral student, will present “Quiet Detectors for Listening to the Cosmos” during the first…