Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session D05: Leading Women in the Gravitational Wave EraDiversity Invited Undergraduate
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Sponsoring Units: FIP Chair: Elena Aprile, Columbia University Room: Sheraton Governor's Square 14 |
Saturday, April 13, 2019 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
D05.00001: Searching for [a way to do research on] Gravitational Waves Invited Speaker: Beverly Berger As an undergraduate physics major in the 1960s, I had heard of J. Weber's experiments to detect gravitational waves. I went to graduate school at the U. of Maryland at least partially motivated to participate in that research. In the end, my interest was captured by quantum cosmology and I spent the rest of that century working in various areas of gravitational theory. I started interacting with LIGO people in 1992 when I began the effort that led to the APS Topical Group in Gravitation, now DGRAV. In late 2001, I went to NSF as Program Director for Gravitational Physics where part of my job was to manage funding the LIGO collaboration in the US and to assist in NSF oversight of the LIGO Lab. During this LIGO exposure, I became fascinated by LIGO noise and realized that LIGO noise hunting might be something I could do. Thus, shortly after my retirement in 2011, I joined the LIGO collaboration. |
Saturday, April 13, 2019 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
D05.00002: From instrumentation to astrophysics: a journey in collaborative science Invited Speaker: Zsuzsa Marka Over the past decades, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory project brought together scientists and engineers from a diverse set of sub-fields for the common goal of making the first direct detection of gravitational waves. A wide variety of expertise in different areas of physics, astrophysics, and engineering had to be established within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and in the international community in order to facilitate the construction of the gravitational-wave detectors and the exploitation of the collected data for astrophysics. The gravitational-wave field is diversifying in another front: women, who contributed to building instrumentation and to understanding the collected data, provide a positive example that is critical to attracting more women to physical sciences. The role of women in international collaborative work will be discussed through personal experience.
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Saturday, April 13, 2019 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
D05.00003: Beller Lectureship: The richness of diversity in the new exploration of the Universe Invited Speaker: Marica Branchesi The multi-messenger astronomy including gravitational waves is the result of pioneering scientists who worked for years to reach the dream of detecting gravitational waves and the efforts of thousands of scientists world-wide working together with different expertise (from fundamental physics to astronomy, experiments, observations, data analysis and theory). The recent outstanding discoveries showed more than ever the importance of diversity and the necessity of different scientific communities collaborating to overcome technological, observational and theoretical challenges. In this talk, I will share my personal experience as astronomer and woman in a large collaboration, and how curiosity, passion, determination and honest work can help to achieve dreams. |
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