Investigations in Gravitational Radiation
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
See Award no: ST/I001085/1
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- European Gravitational Observatory (Collaboration)
- University of Pisa (Collaboration)
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Collaboration)
- Sun Yat-sen University (Collaboration)
- LIGO (Collaboration)
- The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) (Collaboration)
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Collaboration)
- IISER Pune (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- University Libre Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- Australian Research Council (Collaboration)
- Sapienza University of Rome (Collaboration)
- HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Collaboration)
- Tsinghua University China (Collaboration)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- California State University, Fullerton (Collaboration)
- Virgo Ego Scientific Forum (Collaboration)
- Beijing Normal University (Collaboration)
- University of Warsaw (Collaboration)
- Tongji University (Collaboration)
- California Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- GEO collaboration (Collaboration)
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (Collaboration)
- Hubei University of Education (Collaboration)
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration (Collaboration)
- Penn State University (Collaboration)
- Tokyo University of Science (Collaboration)
- Shandong University (Collaboration)
- INFN Sezione di Perugia (Collaboration)
- Max Planck Society (Collaboration)
- Boostec (Collaboration)
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- University of Sannio (Collaboration)
- University of the West of Scotland (Collaboration)
- Australia Telescope National Facility (Collaboration)
- INFN Sezione di Pisa (Collaboration)
- Laser Center Hannover eV (Collaboration)
- Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) (Collaboration)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Collaboration)
- University of St Andrews (Collaboration)
- Russian ET Consortium (Collaboration)
- Syracuse University (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Lomonosov Moscow State University (Collaboration)
- Gooch & Housego (Collaboration)
- Maastricht University (UM) (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef (Collaboration)
- Changchun University (Collaboration)
- INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (Collaboration)
Publications
Aasi J
(2014)
Implementation of an $\mathcal{F}$-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Aasi J
(2013)
Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center
in Physical Review D
Aasi J
(2013)
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009-2010
in Physical Review D
Aasi J
(2014)
FIRST SEARCHES FOR OPTICAL COUNTERPARTS TO GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE CANDIDATE EVENTS
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Aasi J
(2012)
The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Aasi J
(2014)
Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Aasi J
(2014)
Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors
in Physical Review D
Aasi J
(2014)
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS: RESULTS FROM THE INITIAL DETECTOR ERA
in The Astrophysical Journal
Aasi J
(2014)
Search for gravitational waves associated with ?-ray bursts detected by the interplanetary network.
in Physical review letters
Aasi J
(2013)
Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data
in Physical Review D
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| Description | Gravitational waves in education |
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| Title | Bayesian Techniques in gravitational wave data analysis |
| Description | Bayesian methods for parameter estimation in low signal to noise ratio gravitational wave signals from our detectors are of application in other areas of sensing, including at least one of commercial interest. Some classes of gravitational wave signals will be detected by matched filtering. To extract the maximum astrophysical information from a detected event requires parameter estimation, taking into account a model for the signal and resulting in a statistical statement about the system which produced the signals. Methods have been developed to allow optimal estimation of parameters from even quite low signal to noise ratio detections. These methods are being applied to detection of other signal types. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The Bayesian detection confidence and parameter estimation techniques are of key importance to the extraction of astrophysical science from gravitational wave signals, and thus core to our research. Starting from an initial application in the detection |
| Title | Bayesian Techniques in precision optical sensing |
| Description | Bayesian methods for parameter estimation in low signal to noise ratio gravitational wave signals from our detectors are of application in other areas of sensing, including at least one of commercial interest. Some classes of gravitational wave signals will be detected by matched filtering. To extract the maximum astrophysical information from a detected event requires parameter estimation, taking into account a model for the signal and resulting in a statistical statement about the system which produced the signals. Methods have been developed to allow optimal estimation of parameters from even quite low signal to noise ratio detections. These methods are applicable in other fields of endeavour. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | One application (commercially sensitive and under a non-disclosure agreement), involves applying methods developed during STFC funded gravitational wave data analysis to signal extraction and parameter fitting in infra-red optical sensing. We are curren |
| Description | ALUK |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | UK Advanced LIGO Project (ALUK) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The UK Advanced LIGO Project (ALUK) involves transfer of the multiple stage / monolithic silica suspension technology developed for the GEO 600 detector to the LIGO detectors based in the U.S. Along with transfer of enhanced interferometric techniques this will create Advanced LIGO (aLIGO). We have provided all the main suspension systems for the three Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors. These complex mechanical systems suspend the core optical components, i.e. mirrors and beam-splitters, which form the interferometer at the heart of each detector. In particular we developed and then provided the ultra-low-dissipation, fused silica suspension technology that enables Advanced LIGO to have excellent sensitivity at low frequencies, plus all the associated production and characterisation equipment necessary to manufacture, install and maintain the suspensions. We provide continuing support for the assembly, characterisation, commissioning and operation of the suspensions and related detector technology. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Membership of the ALUK enabled the associated project to be completed. Intellectual input, and design, procurement and manufacturing effort was shared among the partners. A memorandum of understanding signed by LIGO provides for access to gravitational wave data from aLIGO. The aims of the ALUK collaboration are to design and build detector components, and to assist with their installation and commissioning, and with the operation of the resulting aLIGO detectors. Collaborators provided design input to many subsystems of the project, expertise in procurement and manufacturing of precision electronic and mechanical components, and also project management. |
| Impact | Philip Leverhulme Prize RCUK Fellowship Post-doctoral Fellowship EC Framework 7 Infrastructures program International Joint Project Award scheme Travel grant RCUK Science Bridges RCUK Science Bridges Seedcorn grant Research Merit Award JISC Grant SUPA Studentship Science in Society Fellowship RSE/Scottish Executive Personal Research Fellowship MP FS AH MB SR Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2008 Appearance on Radio 4 programme "In our time" Appearance on BBC One Countryfile Regular visits to local schools Public lectures at Science Centres and Science Festivals Events for International Year of Astronomy 2009 Lectures to amateur astronomical societies Meet the Scientist @ Glasgow Science Centre Science @ the Scottish Parliament Astronomy's New Messengers Icarus at the Edge of Time CPD Training for schoolteachers ScienceFace Scottish Science Advisory Council Technology Development Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for technology applications Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for research Fused silica suspension fibres for application in technology Fused silica suspension fibres for gravitational wave detectors Bayesian Techniques in precision optical sensing Bayesian Techniques in gravitational wave data analysis Amplitude or arbitrary phase sideband optical cavity probes Technology Development Diffractively coupled high finesse optical cavities Silicon Carbide bonding Berlin 2009 GWADW 2009 Amaldi 2009 RAS NAM 2009 GWADW 2009 RAS NAM 2008 Texas 2008 Moscow 2008 Schuster Colloquium Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture RSE Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Lectureship Wolfson Research Merit Award Tannahill Lecture and Medal Fellow ISGRGI FRSE (1) FInstP (1) FRAS (1) FRSE (2) Max-Planck-Society FRAS (2) History and Development of Knowledge IOP Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Conference Advanced Detector Workshop Kyoto LISA Symposium Stanford Optical Fibre Sensors Edinburgh Advanced Detector Workshop Florida Gravitational Wave Bursts meeting Mexico ILIAS Dresden IoP NPPD conference Glasgow 12th Marcel Grossman meeting Paris Lomonosov conference Moscow Advanced Detector Workshop Florida GR19 Meeting Mexico LISA International Symposium Stanford OECD Global Science Forum India IAU Rio de Janeiro Amaldi NY Fujihara Seminar Tokyo OECD Global Science Forum Cracow NEB X111 Thessaloniki New Worlds Portugal PASCOS 07 London LEOS Montreal XX1X Spanish Relativity Meeting Mallorca Rencontres de Moriond Italy Texas Symposium Heidelberg Aspera Workshop Paris IoP HEPP and AP Annual Meeting Frontiers in Optics, OSA, San Jose Amaldi NY Fujiwara Foundation Seminar Japan Advanced Detector Workshop Florida IoP Astroparticle meeting Oxford Cosmo 07 Sussex Aspera Workshop Paris Workshop on Charging Issues MIT IoP NPPD Annual conference Surrey RAS ordinary meeting London ILIAS Italy IAU General Assembly Prague NPPD Conference Glasgow Statistical Challenges Penn State Amaldi student talk Visiting Professorship Jena STFC Particle Astrophysics Advisory panel Physical and Engineering Committee of ESF SSAC Chair GWIC Chair STFC Panels Royal Society Research Grants Panel Aspera/ApPEC Science Advisory Committee Trustee RSE RSE Fellowship Committee IoP Awards Committee Chair LIGO Election & Membership GWIC Deputy Chair PPAN RSE Grants Committee RSE Sectional Committee Stanford-Scotland Photonics GEO Executive Committee FP7 ET Design Study Member STFC Science Committee PPAN GWIC Roadmap committee STFC Oversight Committee Zeplin III Aspera/ApPEC Peer Review Committee Governing Council FP6 ILIAS Aspera/ApPEC Roadmap Committee Advanced Detector committee LSC Publication Policy committee LSC LSC CW Group co-Chair reelected SUPA Astro theme leader LSC CW Group co-chair LSC Detection Committee LSC Data Analysis Council FRSE Aspen Center for Physics 2008 Aspen Center for Physics 2011 Advanced Detectors Workshop Kyoto Cosmic Co-Motion Queensland SAMSI North Carolina Center for Astrostatistics Penn State RAS NAM Llandudno Cosmology and Machine Learning UCL ILIAS Dresden PF PhD FB PhD KC Ugrad LO Ugrad RD Ugrad LM Ugrad LMac Ugrad AB Ugrad EWB Ugrad DF PhD ST Staff BL Staff HW PhD KB RA SF Staff KS staff LSF staff ZP Ugrad DH PhD RU Ugrad NH Ugrad MC Ugrad SL Ugrad NG Ugrad CS PhD OB PhD OB PhD MB PhD EJ Ugrad RM Ugrad RW Ugrad SJ Ugrad SL Ugrad BL Staff BG Ugrad AP PhD PS staff VM staff LG Staff CC PhD SZ Ugrad NM PhD MJ staff AG PhD FGC PhD |
| Description | Cosmic Explorer consortium |
| Organisation | California Institute of Technology |
| Department | Caltech Astronomy |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cosmic Explorer is a plan for a U.S. third-generation gravitational-wave observatory that aims to be an order of magnitude more sensitive than Advanced LIGO. At this sensitivity, Cosmic Explorer will be able to answer questions from the smallest scales of fundamental physics to the largest scales of cosmology. The purpose of the Cosmic Explorer Consortium is to provide an open and efficient way for members of the international physics and astronomy communities to contribute to the conceptualization of Cosmic Explorer, its design, and its future use. We are active in this collaboration, particularly in the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have much expertise. We also contribute to the science case for the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing science expertise and collaborating on projects related to Cosmic Explorer. |
| Impact | This is a multi -disciplinary collaboration as it involves physicists, astronomers and engineers working together. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Cosmic Explorer consortium |
| Organisation | California State University, Fullerton |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cosmic Explorer is a plan for a U.S. third-generation gravitational-wave observatory that aims to be an order of magnitude more sensitive than Advanced LIGO. At this sensitivity, Cosmic Explorer will be able to answer questions from the smallest scales of fundamental physics to the largest scales of cosmology. The purpose of the Cosmic Explorer Consortium is to provide an open and efficient way for members of the international physics and astronomy communities to contribute to the conceptualization of Cosmic Explorer, its design, and its future use. We are active in this collaboration, particularly in the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have much expertise. We also contribute to the science case for the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing science expertise and collaborating on projects related to Cosmic Explorer. |
| Impact | This is a multi -disciplinary collaboration as it involves physicists, astronomers and engineers working together. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Cosmic Explorer consortium |
| Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cosmic Explorer is a plan for a U.S. third-generation gravitational-wave observatory that aims to be an order of magnitude more sensitive than Advanced LIGO. At this sensitivity, Cosmic Explorer will be able to answer questions from the smallest scales of fundamental physics to the largest scales of cosmology. The purpose of the Cosmic Explorer Consortium is to provide an open and efficient way for members of the international physics and astronomy communities to contribute to the conceptualization of Cosmic Explorer, its design, and its future use. We are active in this collaboration, particularly in the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have much expertise. We also contribute to the science case for the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing science expertise and collaborating on projects related to Cosmic Explorer. |
| Impact | This is a multi -disciplinary collaboration as it involves physicists, astronomers and engineers working together. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Cosmic Explorer consortium |
| Organisation | Penn State University |
| Department | Penn State Abington |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cosmic Explorer is a plan for a U.S. third-generation gravitational-wave observatory that aims to be an order of magnitude more sensitive than Advanced LIGO. At this sensitivity, Cosmic Explorer will be able to answer questions from the smallest scales of fundamental physics to the largest scales of cosmology. The purpose of the Cosmic Explorer Consortium is to provide an open and efficient way for members of the international physics and astronomy communities to contribute to the conceptualization of Cosmic Explorer, its design, and its future use. We are active in this collaboration, particularly in the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have much expertise. We also contribute to the science case for the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing science expertise and collaborating on projects related to Cosmic Explorer. |
| Impact | This is a multi -disciplinary collaboration as it involves physicists, astronomers and engineers working together. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Cosmic Explorer consortium |
| Organisation | Syracuse University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cosmic Explorer is a plan for a U.S. third-generation gravitational-wave observatory that aims to be an order of magnitude more sensitive than Advanced LIGO. At this sensitivity, Cosmic Explorer will be able to answer questions from the smallest scales of fundamental physics to the largest scales of cosmology. The purpose of the Cosmic Explorer Consortium is to provide an open and efficient way for members of the international physics and astronomy communities to contribute to the conceptualization of Cosmic Explorer, its design, and its future use. We are active in this collaboration, particularly in the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have much expertise. We also contribute to the science case for the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing science expertise and collaborating on projects related to Cosmic Explorer. |
| Impact | This is a multi -disciplinary collaboration as it involves physicists, astronomers and engineers working together. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | ELITES collaboration |
| Organisation | Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed designs and expertise in low loss optics and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Several visits of PDRAs and students to Japan have taken place for characterising silica tantala coatings on sapphire discs as well as sapphire fibres used for suspension systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has two main goals: 1) Exchange of knowledge between the European labs designing the cryogenic apparatuses, plants and detector components for the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the corresponding labs in Japan, engaged in the Kagra project; 2) Train early stage researchers, both on the European and the Japanese side, in this specific field, developing a new generation of young scientists that will have an important role in the realization and handling of both Kagra and ET. Kagra will be the first large-scale gravitational wave detector using cryogenic optics. This collaboration allows us to contribute to this exciting endeavour, while at the same time obtaining practical experience with cryogenic systems similar to what will be required for future European interferometers such as ET. |
| Impact | ELiTES-ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists award granted from the EU - research activities ongoing (first annual meeting held, exchanges underway) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | ELITES collaboration |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed designs and expertise in low loss optics and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Several visits of PDRAs and students to Japan have taken place for characterising silica tantala coatings on sapphire discs as well as sapphire fibres used for suspension systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has two main goals: 1) Exchange of knowledge between the European labs designing the cryogenic apparatuses, plants and detector components for the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the corresponding labs in Japan, engaged in the Kagra project; 2) Train early stage researchers, both on the European and the Japanese side, in this specific field, developing a new generation of young scientists that will have an important role in the realization and handling of both Kagra and ET. Kagra will be the first large-scale gravitational wave detector using cryogenic optics. This collaboration allows us to contribute to this exciting endeavour, while at the same time obtaining practical experience with cryogenic systems similar to what will be required for future European interferometers such as ET. |
| Impact | ELiTES-ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists award granted from the EU - research activities ongoing (first annual meeting held, exchanges underway) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | ELITES collaboration |
| Organisation | Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) |
| Department | Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed designs and expertise in low loss optics and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Several visits of PDRAs and students to Japan have taken place for characterising silica tantala coatings on sapphire discs as well as sapphire fibres used for suspension systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has two main goals: 1) Exchange of knowledge between the European labs designing the cryogenic apparatuses, plants and detector components for the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the corresponding labs in Japan, engaged in the Kagra project; 2) Train early stage researchers, both on the European and the Japanese side, in this specific field, developing a new generation of young scientists that will have an important role in the realization and handling of both Kagra and ET. Kagra will be the first large-scale gravitational wave detector using cryogenic optics. This collaboration allows us to contribute to this exciting endeavour, while at the same time obtaining practical experience with cryogenic systems similar to what will be required for future European interferometers such as ET. |
| Impact | ELiTES-ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists award granted from the EU - research activities ongoing (first annual meeting held, exchanges underway) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | ELITES collaboration |
| Organisation | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed designs and expertise in low loss optics and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Several visits of PDRAs and students to Japan have taken place for characterising silica tantala coatings on sapphire discs as well as sapphire fibres used for suspension systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has two main goals: 1) Exchange of knowledge between the European labs designing the cryogenic apparatuses, plants and detector components for the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the corresponding labs in Japan, engaged in the Kagra project; 2) Train early stage researchers, both on the European and the Japanese side, in this specific field, developing a new generation of young scientists that will have an important role in the realization and handling of both Kagra and ET. Kagra will be the first large-scale gravitational wave detector using cryogenic optics. This collaboration allows us to contribute to this exciting endeavour, while at the same time obtaining practical experience with cryogenic systems similar to what will be required for future European interferometers such as ET. |
| Impact | ELiTES-ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists award granted from the EU - research activities ongoing (first annual meeting held, exchanges underway) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | ELITES collaboration |
| Organisation | Tokyo University of Science |
| Department | Institute for Cosmic Rays Research |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed designs and expertise in low loss optics and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Several visits of PDRAs and students to Japan have taken place for characterising silica tantala coatings on sapphire discs as well as sapphire fibres used for suspension systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has two main goals: 1) Exchange of knowledge between the European labs designing the cryogenic apparatuses, plants and detector components for the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the corresponding labs in Japan, engaged in the Kagra project; 2) Train early stage researchers, both on the European and the Japanese side, in this specific field, developing a new generation of young scientists that will have an important role in the realization and handling of both Kagra and ET. Kagra will be the first large-scale gravitational wave detector using cryogenic optics. This collaboration allows us to contribute to this exciting endeavour, while at the same time obtaining practical experience with cryogenic systems similar to what will be required for future European interferometers such as ET. |
| Impact | ELiTES-ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists award granted from the EU - research activities ongoing (first annual meeting held, exchanges underway) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | ELITES collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Sannio |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed designs and expertise in low loss optics and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Several visits of PDRAs and students to Japan have taken place for characterising silica tantala coatings on sapphire discs as well as sapphire fibres used for suspension systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has two main goals: 1) Exchange of knowledge between the European labs designing the cryogenic apparatuses, plants and detector components for the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the corresponding labs in Japan, engaged in the Kagra project; 2) Train early stage researchers, both on the European and the Japanese side, in this specific field, developing a new generation of young scientists that will have an important role in the realization and handling of both Kagra and ET. Kagra will be the first large-scale gravitational wave detector using cryogenic optics. This collaboration allows us to contribute to this exciting endeavour, while at the same time obtaining practical experience with cryogenic systems similar to what will be required for future European interferometers such as ET. |
| Impact | ELiTES-ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists award granted from the EU - research activities ongoing (first annual meeting held, exchanges underway) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | ELITES collaboration |
| Organisation | University of the West of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed designs and expertise in low loss optics and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Several visits of PDRAs and students to Japan have taken place for characterising silica tantala coatings on sapphire discs as well as sapphire fibres used for suspension systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has two main goals: 1) Exchange of knowledge between the European labs designing the cryogenic apparatuses, plants and detector components for the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the corresponding labs in Japan, engaged in the Kagra project; 2) Train early stage researchers, both on the European and the Japanese side, in this specific field, developing a new generation of young scientists that will have an important role in the realization and handling of both Kagra and ET. Kagra will be the first large-scale gravitational wave detector using cryogenic optics. This collaboration allows us to contribute to this exciting endeavour, while at the same time obtaining practical experience with cryogenic systems similar to what will be required for future European interferometers such as ET. |
| Impact | ELiTES-ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists award granted from the EU - research activities ongoing (first annual meeting held, exchanges underway) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | ELITES collaboration |
| Organisation | Virgo Ego Scientific Forum |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed designs and expertise in low loss optics and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Several visits of PDRAs and students to Japan have taken place for characterising silica tantala coatings on sapphire discs as well as sapphire fibres used for suspension systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has two main goals: 1) Exchange of knowledge between the European labs designing the cryogenic apparatuses, plants and detector components for the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the corresponding labs in Japan, engaged in the Kagra project; 2) Train early stage researchers, both on the European and the Japanese side, in this specific field, developing a new generation of young scientists that will have an important role in the realization and handling of both Kagra and ET. Kagra will be the first large-scale gravitational wave detector using cryogenic optics. This collaboration allows us to contribute to this exciting endeavour, while at the same time obtaining practical experience with cryogenic systems similar to what will be required for future European interferometers such as ET. |
| Impact | ELiTES-ET-LCGT Telescopes: Exchange of Scientists award granted from the EU - research activities ongoing (first annual meeting held, exchanges underway) |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | ET-R&D collaboration |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing experimental and modelling expertise to three of the working groups (WG) in this project. In WG1 we will develop methods of parameter estimation for transient signals detected by ET, through application of our existing expertise in gravitational wave data analysis. In WG3 we will develop apparatus for measuring the birefringence of coated silicon samples and apply our expertise in finite element modelling to assist in the interpretation of cryogenic birefringence measurements carried out in collaboration with Hannover and Jena. In WG4 we will carry out studies and simulations of sensing and control issues for ET and carry out detailed modelling of the quantum noise and optical configuration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this project is to carry out essential collaborative research and development on key out-standing topics of the technical design of the Einstein Telescope, a 3rd generation underground gravitational wave detector. The three working groups we are participating in aim to study the scientific potential of ET, investigate key optical properties of silicon mirrors and study the advanced interferometer control systems required for ET. Each of these areas requires close collaboration with our European partners and the combination of the facilities and expertise of the participating groups. This will be facilitated by regular teleconferences, meetings and research visits between us and our partners, ensuring effective management of the joint projects and regular exchange of idea and results. Participation in this project provides opportunities for us to continue to contribute strongly to the technical development of ET and ensures that we continue to be an integral part of future developments in the field of gravitational wave detection in Europe. |
| Impact | TBC - activity started last month |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | ET-R&D collaboration |
| Organisation | Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing experimental and modelling expertise to three of the working groups (WG) in this project. In WG1 we will develop methods of parameter estimation for transient signals detected by ET, through application of our existing expertise in gravitational wave data analysis. In WG3 we will develop apparatus for measuring the birefringence of coated silicon samples and apply our expertise in finite element modelling to assist in the interpretation of cryogenic birefringence measurements carried out in collaboration with Hannover and Jena. In WG4 we will carry out studies and simulations of sensing and control issues for ET and carry out detailed modelling of the quantum noise and optical configuration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this project is to carry out essential collaborative research and development on key out-standing topics of the technical design of the Einstein Telescope, a 3rd generation underground gravitational wave detector. The three working groups we are participating in aim to study the scientific potential of ET, investigate key optical properties of silicon mirrors and study the advanced interferometer control systems required for ET. Each of these areas requires close collaboration with our European partners and the combination of the facilities and expertise of the participating groups. This will be facilitated by regular teleconferences, meetings and research visits between us and our partners, ensuring effective management of the joint projects and regular exchange of idea and results. Participation in this project provides opportunities for us to continue to contribute strongly to the technical development of ET and ensures that we continue to be an integral part of future developments in the field of gravitational wave detection in Europe. |
| Impact | TBC - activity started last month |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | ET-R&D collaboration |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing experimental and modelling expertise to three of the working groups (WG) in this project. In WG1 we will develop methods of parameter estimation for transient signals detected by ET, through application of our existing expertise in gravitational wave data analysis. In WG3 we will develop apparatus for measuring the birefringence of coated silicon samples and apply our expertise in finite element modelling to assist in the interpretation of cryogenic birefringence measurements carried out in collaboration with Hannover and Jena. In WG4 we will carry out studies and simulations of sensing and control issues for ET and carry out detailed modelling of the quantum noise and optical configuration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this project is to carry out essential collaborative research and development on key out-standing topics of the technical design of the Einstein Telescope, a 3rd generation underground gravitational wave detector. The three working groups we are participating in aim to study the scientific potential of ET, investigate key optical properties of silicon mirrors and study the advanced interferometer control systems required for ET. Each of these areas requires close collaboration with our European partners and the combination of the facilities and expertise of the participating groups. This will be facilitated by regular teleconferences, meetings and research visits between us and our partners, ensuring effective management of the joint projects and regular exchange of idea and results. Participation in this project provides opportunities for us to continue to contribute strongly to the technical development of ET and ensures that we continue to be an integral part of future developments in the field of gravitational wave detection in Europe. |
| Impact | TBC - activity started last month |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | ET-R&D collaboration |
| Organisation | National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing experimental and modelling expertise to three of the working groups (WG) in this project. In WG1 we will develop methods of parameter estimation for transient signals detected by ET, through application of our existing expertise in gravitational wave data analysis. In WG3 we will develop apparatus for measuring the birefringence of coated silicon samples and apply our expertise in finite element modelling to assist in the interpretation of cryogenic birefringence measurements carried out in collaboration with Hannover and Jena. In WG4 we will carry out studies and simulations of sensing and control issues for ET and carry out detailed modelling of the quantum noise and optical configuration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this project is to carry out essential collaborative research and development on key out-standing topics of the technical design of the Einstein Telescope, a 3rd generation underground gravitational wave detector. The three working groups we are participating in aim to study the scientific potential of ET, investigate key optical properties of silicon mirrors and study the advanced interferometer control systems required for ET. Each of these areas requires close collaboration with our European partners and the combination of the facilities and expertise of the participating groups. This will be facilitated by regular teleconferences, meetings and research visits between us and our partners, ensuring effective management of the joint projects and regular exchange of idea and results. Participation in this project provides opportunities for us to continue to contribute strongly to the technical development of ET and ensures that we continue to be an integral part of future developments in the field of gravitational wave detection in Europe. |
| Impact | TBC - activity started last month |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | ET-R&D collaboration |
| Organisation | Russian ET Consortium |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing experimental and modelling expertise to three of the working groups (WG) in this project. In WG1 we will develop methods of parameter estimation for transient signals detected by ET, through application of our existing expertise in gravitational wave data analysis. In WG3 we will develop apparatus for measuring the birefringence of coated silicon samples and apply our expertise in finite element modelling to assist in the interpretation of cryogenic birefringence measurements carried out in collaboration with Hannover and Jena. In WG4 we will carry out studies and simulations of sensing and control issues for ET and carry out detailed modelling of the quantum noise and optical configuration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this project is to carry out essential collaborative research and development on key out-standing topics of the technical design of the Einstein Telescope, a 3rd generation underground gravitational wave detector. The three working groups we are participating in aim to study the scientific potential of ET, investigate key optical properties of silicon mirrors and study the advanced interferometer control systems required for ET. Each of these areas requires close collaboration with our European partners and the combination of the facilities and expertise of the participating groups. This will be facilitated by regular teleconferences, meetings and research visits between us and our partners, ensuring effective management of the joint projects and regular exchange of idea and results. Participation in this project provides opportunities for us to continue to contribute strongly to the technical development of ET and ensures that we continue to be an integral part of future developments in the field of gravitational wave detection in Europe. |
| Impact | TBC - activity started last month |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | ET-R&D collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing experimental and modelling expertise to three of the working groups (WG) in this project. In WG1 we will develop methods of parameter estimation for transient signals detected by ET, through application of our existing expertise in gravitational wave data analysis. In WG3 we will develop apparatus for measuring the birefringence of coated silicon samples and apply our expertise in finite element modelling to assist in the interpretation of cryogenic birefringence measurements carried out in collaboration with Hannover and Jena. In WG4 we will carry out studies and simulations of sensing and control issues for ET and carry out detailed modelling of the quantum noise and optical configuration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this project is to carry out essential collaborative research and development on key out-standing topics of the technical design of the Einstein Telescope, a 3rd generation underground gravitational wave detector. The three working groups we are participating in aim to study the scientific potential of ET, investigate key optical properties of silicon mirrors and study the advanced interferometer control systems required for ET. Each of these areas requires close collaboration with our European partners and the combination of the facilities and expertise of the participating groups. This will be facilitated by regular teleconferences, meetings and research visits between us and our partners, ensuring effective management of the joint projects and regular exchange of idea and results. Participation in this project provides opportunities for us to continue to contribute strongly to the technical development of ET and ensures that we continue to be an integral part of future developments in the field of gravitational wave detection in Europe. |
| Impact | TBC - activity started last month |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | ET-R&D collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Warsaw |
| Department | Polish ET Consortium |
| Country | Poland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing experimental and modelling expertise to three of the working groups (WG) in this project. In WG1 we will develop methods of parameter estimation for transient signals detected by ET, through application of our existing expertise in gravitational wave data analysis. In WG3 we will develop apparatus for measuring the birefringence of coated silicon samples and apply our expertise in finite element modelling to assist in the interpretation of cryogenic birefringence measurements carried out in collaboration with Hannover and Jena. In WG4 we will carry out studies and simulations of sensing and control issues for ET and carry out detailed modelling of the quantum noise and optical configuration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this project is to carry out essential collaborative research and development on key out-standing topics of the technical design of the Einstein Telescope, a 3rd generation underground gravitational wave detector. The three working groups we are participating in aim to study the scientific potential of ET, investigate key optical properties of silicon mirrors and study the advanced interferometer control systems required for ET. Each of these areas requires close collaboration with our European partners and the combination of the facilities and expertise of the participating groups. This will be facilitated by regular teleconferences, meetings and research visits between us and our partners, ensuring effective management of the joint projects and regular exchange of idea and results. Participation in this project provides opportunities for us to continue to contribute strongly to the technical development of ET and ensures that we continue to be an integral part of future developments in the field of gravitational wave detection in Europe. |
| Impact | TBC - activity started last month |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | ET-R&D collaboration |
| Organisation | University of the West of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are contributing experimental and modelling expertise to three of the working groups (WG) in this project. In WG1 we will develop methods of parameter estimation for transient signals detected by ET, through application of our existing expertise in gravitational wave data analysis. In WG3 we will develop apparatus for measuring the birefringence of coated silicon samples and apply our expertise in finite element modelling to assist in the interpretation of cryogenic birefringence measurements carried out in collaboration with Hannover and Jena. In WG4 we will carry out studies and simulations of sensing and control issues for ET and carry out detailed modelling of the quantum noise and optical configuration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The aim of this project is to carry out essential collaborative research and development on key out-standing topics of the technical design of the Einstein Telescope, a 3rd generation underground gravitational wave detector. The three working groups we are participating in aim to study the scientific potential of ET, investigate key optical properties of silicon mirrors and study the advanced interferometer control systems required for ET. Each of these areas requires close collaboration with our European partners and the combination of the facilities and expertise of the participating groups. This will be facilitated by regular teleconferences, meetings and research visits between us and our partners, ensuring effective management of the joint projects and regular exchange of idea and results. Participation in this project provides opportunities for us to continue to contribute strongly to the technical development of ET and ensures that we continue to be an integral part of future developments in the field of gravitational wave detection in Europe. |
| Impact | TBC - activity started last month |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | California Institute of Technology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | European Gravitational Observatory |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | INFN Sezione di Perugia |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | INFN Sezione di Pisa |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | Maastricht University (UM) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | National Institute for Nuclear Physics |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | University Libre Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB) |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Einstein Telescope Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ET Design Study created an ET community in Europe and a global interest in the 3rd generation of GW observatories. This community was transformed into into a collaboration. We are active in this collaboration, particularly within the areas of suspensions and coatings where we have great expertise. We are also contribute to the sceince case of the detector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration in areas related to the Einstein Telescope. |
| Impact | This is multi-disciplinary asit involves physicists, astronomers and engineers. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | GEO600 |
| Organisation | GEO collaboration |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have provided fused silica suspensions for the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector. These complex mechanical systems suspend the core optical components, i.e. mirrors and beam-splitters, which form the interferometer at the heart of each detector. We have also contributed to almost every other area of detector development, construction, installation and operation, and also to analysis of the resulting data. Examples include contributions to: detector topology and layout; interferometer sensing and control; digital control sub-systems; radio-frequency electro-optic modulation equipment; efficient photo-detection; seismic isolation; seismic monitoring; feed-forward seismic sensing and control; detector supervisory control infrastructure; detector calibration systems; low-level data collection and processing algorithms and systems; laser stabilisation and monitoring; environmental monitoring; data searches for continuous signals (pulsars) and data searches for burst signals (black hole formation). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The GEO600 team collaborates with the GW groups in the USA (LIGO), in France/Italy (Virgo) and in Japan (TAMA300). As a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Virgo Collaboration, GEO600 has performed several long-term data runs together with the other gravitational wave detectors, in the search for the first observations. Financial support for the GEO project has been supplied by the State of Lower Saxony, the Max Planck Society, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Federal Republic of Germany. Personnel costs are supplied by the Max Planck Society and the Leibniz University Hannover, running costs by the Max Planck Society Membership of the GEO is core to our research. It provides access to gravitational wave data, opportunities to contribute to instrument upgrades, training for our graduate students and PDRAs, and is the first destination for many of our technology developments. Membership of GEO was a step towards membership of the LSC (q.v.). Collaborators operate the GEO 600 detector to produce data. They archive this and enable us to access it for analysis and carry out joint analysis with us. Collaborators host our equipment at the detector, which we built jointly with them. Through exchange visits and regular meetings there is exchange of ideas on all aspects of gravitational wave detector design. |
| Impact | Philip Leverhulme Prize RCUK Fellowship Post-doctoral Fellowship EC Framework 7 Infrastructures program International Joint Project Award scheme Travel grant RCUK Science Bridges RCUK Science Bridges Seedcorn grant Research Merit Award JISC Grant SUPA Studentship Science in Society Fellowship RSE/Scottish Executive Personal Research Fellowship MP FS AH MB SR Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2008 Appearance on Radio 4 programme "In our time" Appearance on BBC One Countryfile Regular visits to local schools Public lectures at Science Centres and Science Festivals Events for International Year of Astronomy 2009 Lectures to amateur astronomical societies Meet the Scientist @ Glasgow Science Centre Science @ the Scottish Parliament Astronomy's New Messengers Icarus at the Edge of Time CPD Training for schoolteachers ScienceFace Scottish Science Advisory Council Technology Development Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for technology applications Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for research Fused silica suspension fibres for application in technology Fused silica suspension fibres for gravitational wave detectors Bayesian Techniques in precision optical sensing Bayesian Techniques in gravitational wave data analysis Amplitude or arbitrary phase sideband optical cavity probes Diffractively coupled high finesse optical cavities Silicon Carbide bonding Berlin 2009 GWADW 2009 Amaldi 2009 RAS NAM 2009 GWADW 2009 RAS NAM 2008 Texas 2008 Moscow 2008 Schuster Colloquium Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture RSE Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Lectureship Wolfson Research Merit Award Tannahill Lecture and Medal Fellow ISGRGI FRSE (1) FInstP (1) FRAS (1) FRSE (2) Max-Planck-Society FRAS (2) History and Development of Knowledge IOP Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Conference Advanced Detector Workshop Kyoto LISA Symposium Stanford Advanced Detector Workshop Florida Gravitational Wave Bursts meeting Mexico ILIAS Dresden IoP NPPD conference Glasgow 12th Marcel Grossman meeting Paris Lomonosov conference Moscow Advanced Detector Workshop Florida GR19 Meeting Mexico LISA International Symposium Stanford OECD Global Science Forum India IAU Rio de Janeiro Amaldi NY Fujihara Seminar Tokyo OECD Global Science Forum Cracow NEB X111 Thessaloniki New Worlds Portugal PASCOS 07 London LEOS Montreal XX1X Spanish Relativity Meeting Mallorca Rencontres de Moriond Italy Texas Symposium Heidelberg Aspera Workshop Paris IoP HEPP and AP Annual Meeting Frontiers in Optics, OSA, San Jose Amaldi NY Fujiwara Foundation Seminar Japan Advanced Detector Workshop Florida IoP Astroparticle meeting Oxford Cosmo 07 Sussex Aspera Workshop Paris Workshop on Charging Issues MIT IoP NPPD Annual conference Surrey RAS ordinary meeting London ILIAS Italy IAU General Assembly Prague NPPD Conference Glasgow Statistical Challenges Penn State Amaldi student talk Visiting Professorship Jena STFC Particle Astrophysics Advisory panel Physical and Engineering Committee of ESF SSAC Chair GWIC Chair STFC Panels Royal Society Research Grants Panel Aspera/ApPEC Science Advisory Committee Trustee RSE RSE Fellowship Committee IoP Awards Committee Chair LIGO Election & Membership GWIC Deputy Chair PPAN RSE Grants Committee RSE Sectional Committee Stanford-Scotland Photonics GEO Executive Committee FP7 ET Design Study Member STFC Science Committee PPAN GWIC Roadmap committee STFC Oversight Committee Zeplin III Aspera/ApPEC Peer Review Committee Governing Council FP6 ILIAS Aspera/ApPEC Roadmap Committee Advanced Detector committee LSC Publication Policy committee LSC LSC CW Group co-Chair reelected SUPA Astro theme leader LSC CW Group co-chair LSC Detection Committee LSC Data Analysis Council FRSE Aspen Center for Physics 2008 Aspen Center for Physics 2011 Advanced Detectors Workshop Kyoto Cosmic Co-Motion Queensland SAMSI North Carolina Center for Astrostatistics Penn State RAS NAM Llandudno Cosmology and Machine Learning UCL ILIAS Dresden PF PhD FB PhD KC Ugrad LO Ugrad RD Ugrad LM Ugrad LMac Ugrad AB Ugrad EWB Ugrad DF PhD ST Staff BL Staff HW PhD KB RA SF Staff KS staff LSF staff ZP Ugrad DH PhD RU Ugrad NH Ugrad MC Ugrad SL Ugrad NG Ugrad CS PhD OB PhD OB PhD MB PhD EJ Ugrad RM Ugrad RW Ugrad SJ Ugrad SL Ugrad BL Staff BG Ugrad AP PhD PS staff VM staff LG Staff CC PhD SZ Ugrad NM PhD MJ staff AG PhD FGC PhD |
| Description | GraWIToN International Training Network |
| Organisation | Boostec |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) We will host one early career researcher at the IGR and train him in cutting edge techniques relevant to building and characterising low thermal noise optical systems. 2) A second early career researcher supervised by our group will be based at a company (Gooch & Housego) and work on the development and commercialisation of bonding techniques for low loss monolithic assemblies. In addition we will contribute to the general training of all the early career researchers of this international training network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. Our partners will contribute strongly to the training of the Glasgow based early career researchers (for instance via summer schools or industry collaborations). |
| Impact | Too soon to tell. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | GraWIToN International Training Network |
| Organisation | Gooch & Housego |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) We will host one early career researcher at the IGR and train him in cutting edge techniques relevant to building and characterising low thermal noise optical systems. 2) A second early career researcher supervised by our group will be based at a company (Gooch & Housego) and work on the development and commercialisation of bonding techniques for low loss monolithic assemblies. In addition we will contribute to the general training of all the early career researchers of this international training network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. Our partners will contribute strongly to the training of the Glasgow based early career researchers (for instance via summer schools or industry collaborations). |
| Impact | Too soon to tell. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | GraWIToN International Training Network |
| Organisation | Laser Center Hannover eV |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) We will host one early career researcher at the IGR and train him in cutting edge techniques relevant to building and characterising low thermal noise optical systems. 2) A second early career researcher supervised by our group will be based at a company (Gooch & Housego) and work on the development and commercialisation of bonding techniques for low loss monolithic assemblies. In addition we will contribute to the general training of all the early career researchers of this international training network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. Our partners will contribute strongly to the training of the Glasgow based early career researchers (for instance via summer schools or industry collaborations). |
| Impact | Too soon to tell. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | GraWIToN International Training Network |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) We will host one early career researcher at the IGR and train him in cutting edge techniques relevant to building and characterising low thermal noise optical systems. 2) A second early career researcher supervised by our group will be based at a company (Gooch & Housego) and work on the development and commercialisation of bonding techniques for low loss monolithic assemblies. In addition we will contribute to the general training of all the early career researchers of this international training network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. Our partners will contribute strongly to the training of the Glasgow based early career researchers (for instance via summer schools or industry collaborations). |
| Impact | Too soon to tell. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | GraWIToN International Training Network |
| Organisation | National Institute for Nuclear Physics |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) We will host one early career researcher at the IGR and train him in cutting edge techniques relevant to building and characterising low thermal noise optical systems. 2) A second early career researcher supervised by our group will be based at a company (Gooch & Housego) and work on the development and commercialisation of bonding techniques for low loss monolithic assemblies. In addition we will contribute to the general training of all the early career researchers of this international training network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. Our partners will contribute strongly to the training of the Glasgow based early career researchers (for instance via summer schools or industry collaborations). |
| Impact | Too soon to tell. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | GraWIToN International Training Network |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) We will host one early career researcher at the IGR and train him in cutting edge techniques relevant to building and characterising low thermal noise optical systems. 2) A second early career researcher supervised by our group will be based at a company (Gooch & Housego) and work on the development and commercialisation of bonding techniques for low loss monolithic assemblies. In addition we will contribute to the general training of all the early career researchers of this international training network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. Our partners will contribute strongly to the training of the Glasgow based early career researchers (for instance via summer schools or industry collaborations). |
| Impact | Too soon to tell. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | GraWIToN International Training Network |
| Organisation | University of Pisa |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) We will host one early career researcher at the IGR and train him in cutting edge techniques relevant to building and characterising low thermal noise optical systems. 2) A second early career researcher supervised by our group will be based at a company (Gooch & Housego) and work on the development and commercialisation of bonding techniques for low loss monolithic assemblies. In addition we will contribute to the general training of all the early career researchers of this international training network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. Our partners will contribute strongly to the training of the Glasgow based early career researchers (for instance via summer schools or industry collaborations). |
| Impact | Too soon to tell. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | GraWIToN International Training Network |
| Organisation | Virgo Ego Scientific Forum |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) We will host one early career researcher at the IGR and train him in cutting edge techniques relevant to building and characterising low thermal noise optical systems. 2) A second early career researcher supervised by our group will be based at a company (Gooch & Housego) and work on the development and commercialisation of bonding techniques for low loss monolithic assemblies. In addition we will contribute to the general training of all the early career researchers of this international training network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | GraWIToN is an Initial Training Network, funded by European Commission under FP7-Marie Curie Actions for four years, since the 1st of February 2014. GraWIToN aims to train 13 young researchers (PhD students) in the gravitational wave (GW) search field. Our partners will contribute strongly to the training of the Glasgow based early career researchers (for instance via summer schools or industry collaborations). |
| Impact | Too soon to tell. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Beijing Normal University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Changchun University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Hubei University of Education |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Shandong University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Sun Yat-Sen University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Tongji University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | Tsinghua University China |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network with China |
| Organisation | University of the West of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | As this is training and capacity building grant, we will contribute scientific excellence and skills across the full range of gravitational wave science (from instrumentation to astrophysics), as well as our expertise in outreach and collaboration with industry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Full range of the relevant expertise available in the Chinese Gravitational Wave consortium. |
| Impact | Collaboration just started |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | IMPP collaboration |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) designs for ultra-quiet suspension required for experiments exploring macroscopic quantum mechanical aspects; 2) interferometry techniques for measurements at and beyond the quantum limit of high precision interferometry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This cooperation covers research in the area of Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit. The vision is to create a highly interdisciplinary scientific environment focused on the intriguing research opportunities in quantum science and engineering. This collaboration establishes a direct link between Universities of the Scottish Universities Physics Aliens (SUPA) and the relevant high-profile Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany. |
| Impact | SFC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit STFC/EPSRC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | IMPP collaboration |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) designs for ultra-quiet suspension required for experiments exploring macroscopic quantum mechanical aspects; 2) interferometry techniques for measurements at and beyond the quantum limit of high precision interferometry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This cooperation covers research in the area of Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit. The vision is to create a highly interdisciplinary scientific environment focused on the intriguing research opportunities in quantum science and engineering. This collaboration establishes a direct link between Universities of the Scottish Universities Physics Aliens (SUPA) and the relevant high-profile Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany. |
| Impact | SFC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit STFC/EPSRC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | IMPP collaboration |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) designs for ultra-quiet suspension required for experiments exploring macroscopic quantum mechanical aspects; 2) interferometry techniques for measurements at and beyond the quantum limit of high precision interferometry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This cooperation covers research in the area of Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit. The vision is to create a highly interdisciplinary scientific environment focused on the intriguing research opportunities in quantum science and engineering. This collaboration establishes a direct link between Universities of the Scottish Universities Physics Aliens (SUPA) and the relevant high-profile Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany. |
| Impact | SFC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit STFC/EPSRC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | IMPP collaboration |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) designs for ultra-quiet suspension required for experiments exploring macroscopic quantum mechanical aspects; 2) interferometry techniques for measurements at and beyond the quantum limit of high precision interferometry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This cooperation covers research in the area of Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit. The vision is to create a highly interdisciplinary scientific environment focused on the intriguing research opportunities in quantum science and engineering. This collaboration establishes a direct link between Universities of the Scottish Universities Physics Aliens (SUPA) and the relevant high-profile Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany. |
| Impact | SFC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit STFC/EPSRC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | IMPP collaboration |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) designs for ultra-quiet suspension required for experiments exploring macroscopic quantum mechanical aspects; 2) interferometry techniques for measurements at and beyond the quantum limit of high precision interferometry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This cooperation covers research in the area of Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit. The vision is to create a highly interdisciplinary scientific environment focused on the intriguing research opportunities in quantum science and engineering. This collaboration establishes a direct link between Universities of the Scottish Universities Physics Aliens (SUPA) and the relevant high-profile Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany. |
| Impact | SFC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit STFC/EPSRC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | IMPP collaboration |
| Organisation | University of St Andrews |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) designs for ultra-quiet suspension required for experiments exploring macroscopic quantum mechanical aspects; 2) interferometry techniques for measurements at and beyond the quantum limit of high precision interferometry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This cooperation covers research in the area of Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit. The vision is to create a highly interdisciplinary scientific environment focused on the intriguing research opportunities in quantum science and engineering. This collaboration establishes a direct link between Universities of the Scottish Universities Physics Aliens (SUPA) and the relevant high-profile Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany. |
| Impact | SFC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit STFC/EPSRC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | IMPP collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We will contribute to this collaboration on two fronts: 1) designs for ultra-quiet suspension required for experiments exploring macroscopic quantum mechanical aspects; 2) interferometry techniques for measurements at and beyond the quantum limit of high precision interferometry. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This cooperation covers research in the area of Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit. The vision is to create a highly interdisciplinary scientific environment focused on the intriguing research opportunities in quantum science and engineering. This collaboration establishes a direct link between Universities of the Scottish Universities Physics Aliens (SUPA) and the relevant high-profile Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany. |
| Impact | SFC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit STFC/EPSRC International Max-Planck Partnership (IMPP) - Measurement and Observation at the Quantum Limit |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | LSC |
| Organisation | LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The LSC carries out the science of the LIGO Observatories, located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana as well as that of the GEO600 detector in Hannover, Germany. Our collaboration is organized around three general areas of research: analysis of LIGO and GEO data searching for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources, detector operations and characterization, and development of future large scale gravitational wave detectors. As evidenced by our outputs that emerge from this collaboration, we contribute strongly to these three areas. In particular we develop low-noise suspension technology and design new optical techniques for the detectors. We also contribute strongly to data analysis particularly in the searches for pulsars and "ringing down" of newly formed black holes. One of our most significant contributions in the area of data analysis has been in the application of Bayesian techniques to parameter estimation in gravitational wave searches. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a group of scientists seeking to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves, use them to explore the fundamental physics of gravity, and develop the emerging field of gravitational wave science as a tool of astronomical discovery. The LSC works toward this goal through research on, and development of techniques for, gravitational wave detection; and the development, commissioning and exploitation of gravitational wave detectors. Membership of the LSC fundamentally enables our research. It provides access to gravitational wave data, opportunities to contribute to instrument upgrades, and training for our graduate students, and is the primary locus for application of our technology developments. As the World-leading collaboration in the field membership of the LSC is vital to our ongoing research. Collaborators operate the four LSC detectors to produce gravitational wave data. With us they archive this and enable us to access it for analysis. The collaboration carries out joint analysis of the data from all four instruments. Collaborators host our equipment at the detectors, and also at test facilities at which we undertake joint technology developments, supplementing those we carry out in Glasgow. Collaborators provide training in the operation of detectors, and detector subsystems. Within the technical working groups set up by the collaboration, there is exchange of ideas on advanced interferometer techniques and topologies, on data analysis, on laser sources, on optics, including optical coatings and thermal noise, and on suspension technology. |
| Impact | Philip Leverhulme Prize RCUK Fellowship Post-doctoral Fellowship EC Framework 7 Infrastructures program International Joint Project Award scheme Travel grant RCUK Science Bridges RCUK Science Bridges Seedcorn grant Research Merit Award JISC Grant SUPA Studentship Science in Society Fellowship RSE/Scottish Executive Personal Research Fellowship MP FS AH MB SR Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2008 Appearance on Radio 4 programme "In our time" Appearance on BBC One Countryfile Regular visits to local schools Public lectures at Science Centres and Science Festivals Events for International Year of Astronomy 2009 Lectures to amateur astronomical societies Meet the Scientist @ Glasgow Science Centre Science @ the Scottish Parliament Astronomy's New Messengers Icarus at the Edge of Time CPD Training for schoolteachers ScienceFace Scottish Science Advisory Council Technology Development Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for technology applications Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for research Fused silica suspension fibres for application in technology Fused silica suspension fibres for gravitational wave detectors Bayesian Techniques in precision optical sensing Bayesian Techniques in gravitational wave data analysis Amplitude or arbitrary phase sideband optical cavity probes Technology Development Diffractively coupled high finesse optical cavities Silicon Carbide bonding Berlin 2009 GWADW 2009 Amaldi 2009 RAS NAM 2009 GWADW 2009 RAS NAM 2008 Texas 2008 Moscow 2008 Schuster Colloquium Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture RSE Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Lectureship Wolfson Research Merit Award Tannahill Lecture and Medal Fellow ISGRGI FRSE (1) FInstP (1) FRAS (1) FRSE (2) Max-Planck-Society FRAS (2) History and Development of Knowledge IOP Nuclear and Particle Physics Divisional Conference Advanced Detector Workshop Kyoto LISA Symposium Stanford Optical Fibre Sensors Edinburgh Advanced Detector Workshop Florida Gravitational Wave Bursts meeting Mexico ILIAS Dresden IoP NPPD conference Glasgow 12th Marcel Grossman meeting Paris Lomonosov conference Moscow Advanced Detector Workshop Florida GR19 Meeting Mexico LISA International Symposium Stanford OECD Global Science Forum India IAU Rio de Janeiro Amaldi NY Fujihara Seminar Tokyo OECD Global Science Forum Cracow NEB X111 Thessaloniki New Worlds Portugal PASCOS 07 London LEOS Montreal XX1X Spanish Relativity Meeting Mallorca Rencontres de Moriond Italy Texas Symposium Heidelberg Aspera Workshop Paris IoP HEPP and AP Annual Meeting Frontiers in Optics, OSA, San Jose Amaldi NY Fujiwara Foundation Seminar Japan Advanced Detector Workshop Florida IoP Astroparticle meeting Oxford Cosmo 07 Sussex Aspera Workshop Paris Workshop on Charging Issues MIT IoP NPPD Annual conference Surrey RAS ordinary meeting London ILIAS Italy IAU General Assembly Prague NPPD Conference Glasgow Statistical Challenges Penn State Amaldi student talk Visiting Professorship Jena STFC Particle Astrophysics Advisory panel Physical and Engineering Committee of ESF SSAC Chair GWIC Chair STFC Panels Royal Society Research Grants Panel Aspera/ApPEC Science Advisory Committee Trustee RSE RSE Fellowship Committee IoP Awards Committee Chair LIGO Election & Membership GWIC Deputy Chair PPAN RSE Grants Committee RSE Sectional Committee Stanford-Scotland Photonics GEO Executive Committee FP7 ET Design Study Member STFC Science Committee PPAN GWIC Roadmap committee STFC Oversight Committee Zeplin III Aspera/ApPEC Peer Review Committee Governing Council FP6 ILIAS Aspera/ApPEC Roadmap Committee Advanced Detector committee LSC Publication Policy committee LSC LSC CW Group co-Chair reelected SUPA Astro theme leader LSC CW Group co-chair LSC Detection Committee LSC Data Analysis Council FRSE Aspen Center for Physics 2008 Aspen Center for Physics 2011 Advanced Detectors Workshop Kyoto Cosmic Co-Motion Queensland SAMSI North Carolina Center for Astrostatistics Penn State RAS NAM Llandudno Cosmology and Machine Learning UCL ILIAS Dresden PF PhD FB PhD KC Ugrad LO Ugrad RD Ugrad LM Ugrad LMac Ugrad AB Ugrad EWB Ugrad DF PhD ST Staff BL Staff HW PhD KB RA SF Staff KS staff LSF staff ZP Ugrad DH PhD RU Ugrad NH Ugrad MC Ugrad SL Ugrad NG Ugrad CS PhD OB PhD OB PhD MB PhD EJ Ugrad RM Ugrad RW Ugrad SJ Ugrad SL Ugrad BL Staff BG Ugrad AP PhD PS staff VM staff LG Staff CC PhD SZ Ugrad NM PhD MJ staff AG PhD FGC PhD |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | Australia Telescope National Facility |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | Australian Research Council |
| Department | Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | California Institute of Technology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | LIGO |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Department | MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Department | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Department | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. The In-Kind support from the Institute for gravitational Research in Glasgow to this collaboration consists of researcher time and facility access for computer moddelling. It comes to a total of 537,700 AUD. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Institute for Gravitational Research has had long-standing links with researchers in Australia who are the key contributors to OzGrav. Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from our collaboration with the Centre are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Impact | Some of the key activities that have arisen to date from this collaboration are in the areas of low frequency performance gravitational wave detectors, future detector planning and detector commissioning. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Partnership between the Institute for Gravitational Research and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) - MPitkin |
| Organisation | Australian Research Council |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The partnership funded a two week visit to the OzGrav institutions in Melbourne, Australia, for Dr Matthew Pitkin. During the visit he presented seminars at each institution, participated in and chaired workshop sessions, and developed collaborative projects in gravitational-wave astronomy. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner contributed funds for travel and accommodation via the OzGrav International Visitor Funding Program. |
| Impact | The main outcome is the development of software (bibly https://lscsoft.docs.ligo.org/bilby/index.html) and an associated paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02042) that will become the main package for source parameter estimation for gravitational-wave signals within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Royal Society International Partnership with Russia: "Improving low-frequency sensitivity of future Gravitational Wave Observatories" |
| Organisation | Moscow State University |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The University in Glasgow provides experimental expertise in interferometry as well as access to the 10m prototype interferometer as well as to the materials characterisation and loss measurement facilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team at Moscow State University provides theoretical expertise in the analysis of quantum limited systems, as well as experimental facilities for mechanical loss measurements complementary to the ones available in Glasgow. |
| Impact | E. Knyazev et al.: "Speedmeter scheme for gravitational-wave detectors based on EPR quantum entanglement," Physics Letters A, 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.10.009, 2017 S. L. Danilishin et al.,: "A new type of quantum speed meter interferometer: measuring speed to search for intermediate mass black holes" Light: Science & Applications (2018) 7, doi: 10.1038/s41377-018-0004-2 L. G. Prokhorov et. al,: "Upper limits on the mechanical loss of silicate bonds in a silicon tuning fork oscillator" Physics Letters A, 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.07.007 A joint application to the EU Quantum Technology flagship call (proposal currently under evaluation). |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Royal Society International Partnership with Russia: "Improving low-frequency sensitivity of future Gravitational Wave Observatories" |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The University in Glasgow provides experimental expertise in interferometry as well as access to the 10m prototype interferometer as well as to the materials characterisation and loss measurement facilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team at Moscow State University provides theoretical expertise in the analysis of quantum limited systems, as well as experimental facilities for mechanical loss measurements complementary to the ones available in Glasgow. |
| Impact | E. Knyazev et al.: "Speedmeter scheme for gravitational-wave detectors based on EPR quantum entanglement," Physics Letters A, 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.10.009, 2017 S. L. Danilishin et al.,: "A new type of quantum speed meter interferometer: measuring speed to search for intermediate mass black holes" Light: Science & Applications (2018) 7, doi: 10.1038/s41377-018-0004-2 L. G. Prokhorov et. al,: "Upper limits on the mechanical loss of silicate bonds in a silicon tuning fork oscillator" Physics Letters A, 10.1016/j.physleta.2017.07.007 A joint application to the EU Quantum Technology flagship call (proposal currently under evaluation). |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | IISER Pune |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | STFC Newton-Bhabha: Capacity Building for LIGO-India |
| Organisation | University of the West of Scotland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glasgow will be hosting a UK focused meeting in April 2018, also staff visits of colleagues from RRCAT and IIT Bombay. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are contributing staff for exchanges, Indian partners will contribute in-kind support of staff & computing time. |
| Impact | MOU between UK and Indian institutes Collaboration agreement signed between UK and Indian institutes Just starting a print run of a book in general relativity, to be distributed to Indian schools |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SUPA |
| Organisation | The Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed research outcomes, such as hyrdroxy-catalysis bonding. Another major area of contribution has been through lecture courses and workshops arranged through the SUPA Graduate School, and by arranging seminars by prestigious international visitors, and broadcasting them to all partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Adopting a coherent approach to staffing strategy, research training, research initiatives and funding opportunities, SUPA™ pools and enhances Scotland's strongest physics research areas and will develop as a world leader in physics, creating the largest group of physics researchers in the UK. It is also intended as a single "front door" for potential staff, sponsors, and industrial collaborators. Major research themes being pursued are physics and life sciences, energy, astronomy, condensed matter and materials physics, nuclear and plasma physics, particle physics and photonics. The alliance brings together internationally leading physics research across Scotland to form the largest physics grouping in the UK. Enhanced links with the Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, have provided access to equipment and expertise, and continue to provide opportunities for extending research horizons, e.g. through the application of techniques we have developed for core research to other areas of astronomy. |
| Impact | Philip Leverhulme Prize Research Merit Award SUPA Studentship MP FS AH MB SR Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2008 Appearance on Radio 4 programme "In our time" Appearance on BBC One Countryfile Regular visits to local schools Public lectures at Science Centres and Science Festivals Events for International Year of Astronomy 2009 Lectures to amateur astronomical societies Meet the Scientist @ Glasgow Science Centre Science @ the Scottish Parliament Astronomy's New Messengers Icarus at the Edge of Time CPD Training for schoolteachers ScienceFace Scottish Science Advisory Council Technology Development Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for technology applications Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for research Fused silica suspension fibres for application in technology Fused silica suspension fibres for gravitational wave detectors Berlin 2009 GWADW 2009 Amaldi 2009 RAS NAM 2009 GWADW 2009 RAS NAM 2008 Texas 2008 Moscow 2008 Schuster Colloquium Elizabeth Spreadbury Lecture RSE Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Lectureship Wolfson Research Merit Award Tannahill Lecture and Medal LISA International Symposium Stanford OECD Global Science Forum India New Worlds Portugal PASCOS 07 London LEOS Montreal Rencontres de Moriond Italy Frontiers in Optics, OSA, San Jose Visiting Professorship Jena STFC Particle Astrophysics Advisory panel Physical and Engineering Committee of ESF SSAC Chair GWIC Chair STFC Panels Royal Society Research Grants Panel Trustee RSE RSE Fellowship Committee IoP Awards Committee Deputy Chair PPAN RSE Grants Committee RSE Sectional Committee Stanford-Scotland Photonics Member STFC Science Committee PPAN SUPA Astro theme leader PF PhD FB PhD KC Ugrad LO Ugrad RD Ugrad LM Ugrad LMac Ugrad AB Ugrad EWB Ugrad DF PhD ST Staff BL Staff HW PhD KB RA SF Staff KS staff LSF staff ZP Ugrad DH PhD RU Ugrad NH Ugrad MC Ugrad SL Ugrad NG Ugrad CS PhD OB PhD OB PhD MB PhD EJ Ugrad RM Ugrad RW Ugrad SJ Ugrad SL Ugrad |
| Title | MEASUREMENT OF ACCELERATION |
| Description | An acceleration measuring device is disclosed, for use as a gravimeter or gradiometer for example. The device has a support and a proof mass, connected to each other by at flexures allowing displacement of the proof mass relative to the support. The support defines a space for displacement of the proof mass. The device is configured so that the modulus of the gradient of the force-displacement curve of the proof mass decreases with increasing displacement, for at least part of the force-displacement curve. This is the so-called anti-spring effect. The resonant frequency of oscillation of the proof mass is determined at least in part by the orientation of the device relative to the direction of the force due to gravity. The proof mass is capable of oscillating with a resonant frequency of 10 Hz or less. The proof mass has a mass of less than 1 gram. |
| IP Reference | WO2016030435 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | This patent was filed in August 2015 and we will work with end users to consider licensing/spin out opportunities. We are currently engaging with a design & manufacturing company to build a field unit, and a micro-nanofabrication company to develop wafer scale processing. Several devices are now installed on Mt Etna as a demonstration of the worlds first MEMS gravimeter array. |
| Title | Silicon Carbide bonding |
| Description | Room temperature technique for mechanically robust method of jointing silicon carbide |
| IP Reference | US20070221326 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2007 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Small contract work with US company |
| Title | Amplitude or arbitrary phase sideband optical cavity probes |
| Description | We have extended the standard technique used to probe the optical cavities of gravitational wave detectors to determine the state of resonance of the ingoing light (and hence sense parameters such as the length) by generalising them. The standard technique involves applying phase modulation sidebands, and we have extended this to include either amplitude or arbitrary phase sidebands. The effect of this is to allow us to probe internal degrees of freedom of multi-cavity systems, and to maximise the separation of signals in the process of reading out coupled degrees of freedom, as is needed for reliable control. Optics, active and adaptive optics, mirrors, aspherics, interferometers, photonics |
| Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | To reduce the limitation set by counting a finite number of photons in the detection process, gravitational wave detectors are employing ever higher light power, and hence storing more photons in the detector at a given instant. The resulting light beams |
| Title | Bilby CBerry JVeitch DWilliams MJWilliams NDLillo |
| Description | Bayesian inference library, primarily for use in analysis of gravitational-wave data |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Used in multiple peer-reviewed publications analysing gravitational-wave data |
| URL | https://lscsoft.docs.ligo.org/bilby/ |
| Title | Development of cryogenic MEMS for gravity mapping |
| Description | A direct spin-off of the group?s expertise in low loss monolithic suspensions and precision optical sensing has led to the development of a new research theme on cryogenic silicon Micro-Electro-Mechanical Sensors (MEMS). We are developing a novel tri-axial, low frequency (<5Hz) miniaturised MEMS gradiometer able to sense nano-g changes (<10ng in 1s) in the local gravitational field. This is equivalent to a performance ten times better than any current device on the market. Building a device at the target sensitivity will require thermal noise optimisation of the MEMS silicon flexures and the use of geometrical anti-springs to lower the device resonant frequency, the development of a high stability on-chip optical readout, the ability to tune the device to reject common mode non-gravitational accelerations and cryogenic operation to provide long term stability. Instrumentation technologies (inc. vibration, miniaturisation, ruggedness) |
| Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Impact | There is a substantial gap in the market for high sensitivity, low power consumption, miniaturised devices able to sense gravity over a wide operating frequency and suitable for land and air based surveys. The ability to map and image the local gravitatio |
| Title | Diffractively coupled high finesse optical cavities |
| Description | The demand for ever higher power in laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors, together with the possible choice of silicon mirror substrates to allow cryogenic operation (silicon is opaque at the normally chosen laser wavelength of 1064 nm), led us to investigate the diffractive optics. In our application a weak diffractive coupler, in 2nd order Littrow configuration, is used to send light in and out of an optical resonator (replacing the usual partly-transmitting mirror, and so avoiding the need for a transmitting mirror substrate). Optics, active and adaptive optics, mirrors, aspherics, interferometers, photonics |
| Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | This technology contributes to our future research by providing a route for which a potential new material of choice for cryogenic mirror substrates can be used with existing and well understood laser systems, thus accelerating progress in this area. |
| Title | Fused silica suspension fibres for application in technology |
| Description | Precision laser-drawn fibres of ultra-high purity fused silica. Laser melting of the stock ensures high purity, pre-treatment achieves low density of surface defects and hence high strength, and precision drawing, under computer control leads to a highly reproducible profile (i.e. the diameter along the length of the fibre) and length. The particular pulling technique ensures good roundness of the fibres. Optics, active and adaptive optics, mirrors, aspherics, interferometers, photonics |
| Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | There is a commercial application in the area of Geophysics instrumentation currently under development, (commercially sensitive and covered by a non-disclosure agreement). |
| Title | Fused silica suspension fibres for gravitational wave detectors |
| Description | Precision laser-drawn fibres of ultra-high purity fused silica. Laser melting of the stock ensures high purity, pre-treatment achieves low density of surface defects and hence high strength, and precision drawing, under computer control leads to a highly reproducible profile (i.e. the diameter along the length of the fibre) and length. The particular pulling technique ensures good roundness of the fibres. Optics, active and adaptive optics, mirrors, aspherics, interferometers, photonics |
| Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Within the field of gravitational wave research the fibres produced by the method we developed have been selected for inclusion in the next generation of instruments in Europe and the USA. This represents a major advance and an acceleration of progress i |
| Title | Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for research |
| Description | Many glasses, oxides and also silicon carbide, where the surfaces are polished flat and correctly prepared, can be bonded using the action of OH ions in dilute solution. The bonds produced are very thin (of order 100 nm or less) and have good optical quality. We employ this technique in the construction of ultra-low mechanical loss test masses for gravitational wave detectors and for the fabrication of extremely stable optical assemblies for space-borne gravitational wave detectors and other applications. Optics, active and adaptive optics, mirrors, aspherics, interferometers, photonics |
| Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | This technology development has dramatically extended our research by enabling us to develop suspension systems for Advanced LIGO. Hydroxy-catalysis bonding uniquely provides the high strength and thin bonds, hence low mechanical dissipation necessary to |
| Title | Hydroxy-catalysis bonding for technology applications |
| Description | Many glasses, oxides and also silicon carbide, where the surfaces are polished flat and correctly prepared, can be bonded using the action of OH ions in dilute solution. The bonds produced are very thin (of order 100 nm or less) and have good optical quality. We employ this technique in the construction of ultra-low mechanical loss test masses for gravitational wave detectors and for the fabrication of extremely stable optical assemblies for space-borne gravitational wave detectors and other applications. Optics, active and adaptive optics, mirrors, aspherics, interferometers, photonics |
| Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | There have been several applications of hydroxy-catalysis bonding in areas beyond our core research. Developments in this technology have extended its application to the bonding of silicon carbide (Glasgow patent) with applications for space missions (e |
| Title | PSRQPy - MPitkin |
| Description | A Python package for accessing information from the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) Pulsar Catalogue. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | A paper describing the software was published in the Journal of Open Source Software https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00538. The paper has, so far, been cited 3 times, showing that the software is enabling new science. |
| URL | https://psrqpy.readthedocs.io |
| Title | Software to determine Young's modulus from ultrasonic reflection measurements |
| Description | Matlab software to determine Young's modulus from ultrasonic reflection measurements |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Not any yet. Still working on data analysis and publication |
| Title | mj-will/nessai: Release to trigger Zenodo |
| Description | See changelog for details. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Too early to assess, but intended application in GW astronomy |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4550694 |
| Title | transientlunatic/asimov 0.0.1 |
| Description | Automation toolkit for gravitational wave analyses |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Used in the analysis of O3 events for GWTC-2 catalog; Currently in use for several future collaboration catalog publications. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4024433 |
| Description | 2016 Public lecture Institute of Physics London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Public outreach talk on gravitational wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 2016&2017 Performance of chasing the waves, Glasgow Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chasing the Waves is an STFC-funded musical-theatre production which was developed for the Glasgow Science Festival. Several members of staff were involved, including MHendry, PMurray, and several PhD students (incl D Williams). they participated in panel discussions at the end of each show, for an "ask the scientists" dialogue, answering questions from the audience on issues touched upon during the production, but also general questions about science, and being a scientist. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/eventsandprojects/projects/chasingthewaves/ |
| Description | A+ project announcement KStrain SRowan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC interview to discuss the new A+ funding obtained and the science that will be carried out in this project and the potential for the gravitational wave astronomy field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47213202 |
| Description | Alan Cumming - Harp has participated Cosmic Cabaret (9th June 2016, the Stand, Glasgow) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Laser Harp" participated in Cosmic Cabaret (9th June 2016). As part of a performance , UK, organised by musician Stuart Cromarty. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Alan Cumming - Harp has participated in "Hybrid" by Aniara Omann (31 Jan2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Laser Harp" participated in "Hybrid" a reading and performance event at Celine Gallery, Glasgow, UK, organised by artist Ariana Omann. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Alan Cumming - Laser harp at SUPA Annual Gathering (May 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Laser Harp" outreach project for the International Year of Light 2015, and beyond. The project comprised the construction of a unique interactive Raspberry Pi based laser musical instrument exhibit, built in collaboration with Glasgow School of Art providing cross discipline connectivity and immensely valuable public engagement device that traverses all aspects of STEM/STEAM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2016 |
| URL | http://coll.physics.gla.ac.uk/LaserHarp/index.html |
| Description | Alan Cumming - http://coll.physics.gla.ac.uk/LaserHarp/index.html Laser Harp website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Website for laser harp. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://coll.physics.gla.ac.uk/LaserHarp/index.html |
| Description | American Astrophysical Society Plenary prize talk JHough 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary Prize talk at the American Astronomical Society on the history of gravitational wave detection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Angus Bell - Talk at YETI2017 particle physics school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk at YETI2017 particle physics school to teach postgraduate students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Angus Bell - Talk to Glasgow Skeptics society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Up to 100 members of the general public attended the talk. After the talk there was a long time allowed for questions and discussions in which the audience could fully participate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | AstroSoc Talk 2020 JVeitch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Astronomy Society of University of Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BBC News interview on GW190521 detection MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview about gravitational-wave discovery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BBC Radio 5 Live interview on GW190521 detection MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview about gravitational-wave discovery |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BBC Today Program Radio 4 SRowan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave an interview on BBC Today Program Radio 4 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BSorazu interview by Basque Country newspaper "Berria" 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by the Basque Country newspaper "Berria" in relation to the announcement of the BNS signal GW170817. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.berria.eus/paperekoa/2412/010/001/2017-10-17/astrofisikan_aro_berria_ireki_du_neutroi_iza... |
| Description | BSorazu interview by website Nobbot.com 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed for the website Nobbot.com which is a Web by Orange (Spain) related to technology, social networks, business and culture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.nobbot.com/personas/entrevista-borja-sorazu-ondas-gravitacionales/ |
| Description | Blog: Christopher Berry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Personal blog primarily about research and teaching, mostly focusing on gravitational-wave science. Over 20,000 visitors in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://cplberry.com/blog/ |
| Description | Borja Sorazu - International magazine interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Long interview in a Spanish magazine published biweekly by the local council of Getxo, Basque Country (Getxoberri). The interview was about my involvement on the first detection of gravitational waves. This activity provided a very wide and international public outreach of my research activities and results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Borja Sorazu - International newspaper interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Long interview in a Spanish national newspaper (El Correo) in relation with the first detection of gravitational waves and my involvement. This activity provided a very wide and international public outreach of my research activities and results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Borja Sorazu - International popular science magazine interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Co-authored 9 page article, for the anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves, on the Spanish popular science magazine Investigacion y Ciencia (Spanish version of Scientific American). The article was selected for the magazine's cover page for the month of February 2017. This activity provided a very wide and international public outreach of my research activities and results to a more specialised audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Borja Sorazu - International television news report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Report/interview by a Basque Country (Spain) national television channel (EITB - Euskal Irrati Telebista) regarding my involvement on the ground breaking first detection of gravitational waves. An international television crew came to Glasgow to interview me, and it was broadcasted more than 3 times on primetime news television in Spain. This activity provided a very wide and international public outreach of my research activities and results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2016 |
| Description | Borja Sorazu - Interview on online magazine of the University of the Basque Country |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview by the Communication office of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Spain) published on their online magazine 'Campusa'. The interview was about my involvement on the first detection of gravitational waves. This activity provided a very wide and international public outreach of my research activities and results to a highly-specialised audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Borja Sorazu - Spanish translation of Science Summaries published on the LIGO website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I translated several of the Science Summary documents describing important aspect of the first detection of gravitational waves. These translations were published on the official LIGO detectors website. This activity provided a very wide and international public outreach of my research activities and results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | British Science Festival, Aberdeen, Sep 2012 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Organisation of public session on "The Extreme universe" on behalf of the British Science Association. Lecture to x people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Bryan Barr Hong Kong Press Tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Hong Kong print and news media (newspapers, magazines, etc) visited the University of Glasgow as part of a Hong Kong Press Tour of the UK. During the visit we talked to them about studying in Scotland, discussed the international scope of research and gave tours of our research facilities. The event was in the form of a lab tour with open question and answer opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CKillow public lecture "the new astronomy of gravitational waves" by Dr Joan Centrella, Director, Astrophysics Science Division, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This lecture was organised by CKillow as part of a summer school in July 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Café Sci Glasgow online meeting MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Café Scientifique discussion about gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cambridge University Scientific Society SRowan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to talk to Cambridge Scientific Society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cambrisge scientific society talk Jan2021 JHough |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk on gravitational waves to the Cambrisdge Scientifc Society (on google meets due to COVID19). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/156307 |
| Description | Cheltenham Science Festival (2 events) SRowan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk at 2 events at the Cheltenham Science Festival on gravitational waves |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2018/gravitational-waves |
| Description | Colloqium at Indiana University JFaller |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colloqium at Indiana University. The talk title was 'Nature Never Deals Off of the Bottom of the Deck. but She Holds All of the Aces: The Joys of Doing Precision Measurement Science'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Colloquim at University of Kentucky JFaller |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colloquim at University of Kentucky. The talk's title was, 'Nature Never Deals Off of the Bottom of the Deck. but She Holds All of the Aces: The Joys of Doing Precision Measurement Science'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cosmic Companion: GW190521 CBerry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Cosmic Companion podcast on GW190814 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGk_k93IKA&ab_channel=TheCosmicCompanion |
| Description | DPascucci Q&A about research and scientific method 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The activity consisted in a meeting/interview with primary schools students (~ 7-8 years old) about the research with a particular focus on LIGO and gravitational waves. The children showed strong interest and asked very good questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | DWilliams 7min of science 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seven minutes of science is an evening-long event in which early-career researchers give short (7-minute long) talks about their research. There were around 125 members of the public and the university in attendance, many of whom had no science background. Daniel's talk prompted a large number of questions, both within the formal question and answer section, and afterwards, and a number of requests for further information about Gravitational Wave research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://twitter.com/7minutescience?lang=en |
| Description | DWilliams Asto society talk 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Daniel gave a talk to the Astronomical Society of Glasgow - an amateur astronomy club - about the history of gravitational wave astronomy, and recent developments. There were around 40 people in the audience, with ages ranging from 14 upwards. A number of the audience members were retired scientists (from non astronomy fields), and the discussion at the end of the talk was interesting, and a number of insightful questions were asked. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | DWilliams I'm a scientist get me out of here 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here is a nationally-run schools engagement program, in which pupils at participating schools are given the chance to have live web chats with researchers about a given field of science (in this case research into gravity), and also to leave questions on a website, which can then be answered over a two-week period. The questions ranged from queries about gravity and astronomy (e.g. "what is a black hole") to questions about what it's like to work as a scientist. The event is intended to provide pupils with an accurate image of who scientists are, as well as allowing them to interact directly with people involved in research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://gravityn17.imascientist.org.uk |
| Description | DWilliams Infographics for detections |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This project involved the production of "infographics" to communicate the important results of the detection of gravitational waves from the first two advanced LIGO observing runs. A total of five graphics resulted, which were each used as a component of the LIGO social media posts for each event, and in the case of GW170817, the graphic was included in the LSC press pack which was distributed to journalists. The reach of the material on Twitter was international - most considerably for GW170817 thanks to its translation into more than 20 languages, and the graphic was included in articles about the event internationally, making the total audience size rather difficult to estimate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://dcc.ligo.org/DocDB/0144/G1701538/003/find_factsheets_and_infographics.html |
| Description | DWilliams Meet the black hole hunter 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meet the Black Hole Hunters was a question-and-answer event during Glasgow Science festival, which Daniel was involved with through a Skype connection while he was visiting the LIGO site in Louisiana. He was able to answer questions about the detector, and gave a video tour of the control room. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2017 |
| URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/eventsandprojects/glasgowsciencefestival2017/adult/headl... |
| Description | DWilliams UoE astro club talk 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Daniel gave a talk to the University of Edinburgh Astronomy club, with the audience consisting of ~50 undergraduate students. The talk prompted a number of interesting questions both about how to become involved in study in the field, and also about relationships between gravitational wave research and particle physics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Dumfries Astronomical Society talk SRowan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited to talk to the Dumfries Astronomical Society about Gravitational Waves |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://dumfriesastronomy.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Edinburgh U3A Science Group Talk DWilliams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to U3A science group via Zoom; audience primarily retirees. ~Hour-long webinar giving latest updates on GW science followed by a Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Essex Astronomical Society Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Outreach talk on gravitational waves given to the Essex Astronomical Society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Facebook live talk "Einstein Goes to Hollywood" MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public talk on relativity and cosmology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Festival of Physics 2018 (ABell, BSorazu, BBarr, ASpencer and others) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Festival of Physics 2018 was an event held at the Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh which was open to the general public and showcased Scottish physics research and technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.festivalofphysics.org/ |
| Description | Fort Collins Book Festival, Colorado (2 events) SRowan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attend and talk at Fort Collins Book Festival, Colorado (2 events) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.focobookfest.org/speakers/sheila-rowan/ |
| Description | Future of GW Astronomy talk for IPA Conference MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | GEddolls - St Ninian's High School STEM Fair 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | STEM event in a high school aimed at S1 and S2 students. Their parents were also present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2018 |
| Description | GSC science lates - 2018 - KHaughian PMurray CMessenger GEddolls ASpencer and others |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Evening event at Glasgow Science Centre about space based science. We had a stand to display some gravitational wave technolgies and spoke to all the attendees about gravitational wave detection and gravitationa wave astronomy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/sites/default/files/Whats%20On%20-%20Space%20WEB.pdf |
| Description | GilesH BAA summer meeting 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gravitational wave talk at the British Astronomical Association summer meeting 2016 at York. 75 members of the public attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH Dark Side of the Universe Kilwinning Academy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk 'Dark Side of the Universe / Gravity' to 15 S5/6 Pupils, Kilwinning Academy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH Dark Side of the Universe Newcastleton Primary School 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk 'Dark Side of the Universe' to 20 P6 schoolchildren. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH IOP Seniors group 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at IOP Seniors group, "Longitude and GPS" , 15 members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH The Physics of Rainbows Lawthorn Primary 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk 'The Physics of Rainbows' to 40 P6 schoolchildren, Lawthorn Primary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH The Physics of Rainbows Mayfield Primary 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk 'The Physics of Rainbows' to 30 schoolchildren, Mayfield Primary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH The Physics of Rainbows Perth High School 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk 'The Physics of Rainbows' to 20 S3 pupils, Perth High School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH The Physics of Rainbows Woodlands Primary 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk 'The Physics of Rainbows' to 50 schoolchildren, Woodlands Primary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH Tweeddale astronomical society 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on gravitational wave astronomy to 30 members of the public at the Tweeddale astronomical society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH York astronomical society 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk at York astronomical society "MEMS Gravity Sensors and Tidal Deformation" to 55 members of the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GilesH development of halo harp |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Throughout 2016, working with National Museum Scotland/IoP Scotland on development of a halo harp (laser harp) for the new science & technology building. This, and the prototype model has been used at multiple outreach events, following on from the International Year of Light. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Glasgow Café Scientifique Talk DWilliams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Glasgow's Café Scientifique group via Zoom; ~15 minute presentation followed by ~1 hour Q&A session. Covering both latest updates on GW science and general discussion of GW Astrophysics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Glasgow Science Centre Explorathon 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Static and dynamic exhibits at the 2016 Explorathon at the Glasgow Science Center. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Glasgow Science Festival Science Sunday Big Birthday Bash |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Several researchers (incl. PMurray, KHaughian, MvanVeggel, DKeital) and several PhD students (incl. ZTornasi, BPearlstone, GLacaille) manned a gravitational wave stand. Here we described several different areas of gravitational wave research with the aid of our demonstration to the public and answered their questions. We also had lots of giveaways and sticker/quiz cards to help engage the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/events/sciencefestival/eventsandprojects/projects/previousglasgowsciencefestiv... |
| Description | Graduate fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Several members of staff involved including Bryan Barr. They provided tours and information about our research facilities to prospective PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Gravitational Waves for children |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Science Night in Hamburg, Germany, and Open Day at DESY, Germany. JS gave a talk (3x) for children at primary school age explaining gravitational waves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Gravitational Waves panel discussion for Russia Science Festival MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on gravitational-wave astronomy for Russia Science Festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IMartin Co-ordination of RSE Science-Startup Masterclasses 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A series of 4 practical, physics-based workshops run twice per year for a group of ~35 high-school pupils. Workshops cover 'How to be an Astrophysicist', 'How to be an Aeroplane Designer', 'How to be a Bridge Builder' and 'How to be a Rocket Scientist'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | IMartin JHough Royal Society Hooke Meeting 'The Promises of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I Martin was lead organiser of a meeting at the Royal Society on 'The promises of gravitational-wave astronomy'. These meetings are awarded on a competitive basis, and have mixed audiences including members of the public and scientists from both related and un-related fields. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2017/09/gravitational-wave/ |
| Description | IMartin Royal Society Hooke Meeting 'The Promises of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was lead organiser of a meeting at the Royal Society on 'The promises of gravitational-wave astronomy'. These meetings are awarded on a competitive basis, and have mixed audiences including members of the public and scientists from both related and un-related fields. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2017/09/gravitational-wave/ |
| Description | IMartin SRowan ZTornasi school work experience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A school student on a work-experience week in the School of Physics and Astronomy spent a day observing research into optical properties of materials for gravitational wave detectors, working with a PhD student in the group. They also had discussions with our academic staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IMartin Work experience school student project 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A school student on a work-experience week in the School of Physics and Astronomy spent a day observing research into optical properties of materials for gravitational wave detectors, working with my PhD student. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | IOP Essex Branch talk Mar2020 JHough |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk on gravitational waves arranged by the IOP Essex Branch to members of the public and members of the IOP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IOP Festival of Physics PGM KH CK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Festival of Physics is a brand new festival celebrating the wonders of science, the power of curiosity, and the inventions and discoveries that shape our world and our future.CK gave a talk on space based gravitational wave detectors. PGM gave a talk on ground based detectors.KH, PGM and CK manned the stand and discussed gravitational waves with the attendees giving out handouts, answering questions etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.events.iop.org/e/festival-of-physics-00eb9cb4cdbe4650b3193226d3b3a8c5/page.html |
| Description | IOP Hertfordshire talk JHough 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Outreach talk on gravitational waves for Institute of Physics Hertfordshire branch |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | IOPS talk - JFaller - Physics of Sports 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Delivering an IOP Scotland public lecture in Glasgow. The talk was an hour long and was delivered to ~50 attendees. Afterwards, a 45 minute follow up session was arranged with one of the audience who had asked questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Iain Martin - RSE Start-up Science Masterclasses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Organised science masterclasses to engage and teach children about science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Icarus at the Edge of Time |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In October 2010 the IGR participated in a science exhibition at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, linked to a performance of "Icarus at the Edge of Time" - an orchestral score, written by Philip Glass, to accompany the film version of the Brian Greene children's story, updating the Icarus myth in which Icarus falls into a black hole. This project was undertaken jointly with Glasgow Science Centre and featured our "Can you hear black holes?" exhibit. Questionnaire feedback coordinated by Glasgow Science Centre for this event was uniformly positive. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall have expressed their willingness to work with us on similar art-science collaborations in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Inside Science: GW190521 CBerry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Inside Science article on GW190521 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.insidescience.org/news/gravitational-waves-record-ancient-black-hole-merger-unlike-any-de... |
| Description | Invited article in Times Higher Educational Supplement, by Martin Hendry, February 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Martin Hendry wrote an invited article in Times Higher Educational Supplement, February 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Isaac Physics talk Feb2021 JHough |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk (streamed online due to COVID19) aimed at school pupils in years 12 and 13 on gravitational waves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://isaacphysics.org/pages/cpc_lectures |
| Description | J Hough - 2016 Autumn Public Lecture Scottish Engineering Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on gravitational waves, the detection and detectors to the engineering society. There was a long period after the talk to allow for questions and discussions in which the audience participated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | J Hough - 2016 Colloquium RAL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A colloqium talk was given on gravitational waves at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | J Hough - 2016 Outreach talk Probus Longniddry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Outreach talk on gravitational waves to senior citizens with an interest in science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | J Hough - 2016, Public Lecture, Institute of Physics, Open University, Milton Keynes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on gravitational waves to teach people and enthuse them with physics and in particular, gravitational wave astronomy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | JHough & SRowan 2016 IET lecture, Selex Galileo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk on gravitational wave detection to the Institute of Engineering and Technology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | JHough - 2016, Stoner Colloquium University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colloquim given on gravitational waves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | JHough 2016 Colloquium, University of Warwick |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a colloqium at the University of Warwick. Questions were answered after the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | JHough 2016, Colloquium, University of Exeter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a colloqium at the University of Exeter on gravitational waves. Questions from the audience were answered after the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | JHough 2017 Crighton Conversation talk, Dumfries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To give a public outreach talk on gravitational waves and enlighten people on the topic. After the talk there was a supper with the audience that allowed for further discussion and questions to be asked. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | JHough AAAS Family talk, Washington 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk a AAAS family talk. The aim is to teach and enthuse people of all ages about science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | JHough Apr2017 College of Science and Engineering public lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture in Edinburgh to the College of Science and Engineering. It was a general audience and included school children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.eng.ed.ac.uk/about/events/20170427-1730/prof-jim-hough-university-glasgow-engineering-cha... |
| Description | JHough Feb2017 Crighton conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Crighton conversation - Prestigious talk to the general intelligentia of the borders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JHough June2017 Erlangen after dinner talk Max Planck |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited after dinner lecture to the early career staff of Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Erlangen). The meeting was at Ringberg Castle and there were 90 minutes of questions after the lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JHough Mar2017 Keynote lecture EU accelerator |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture to the EU consortium on accelerator physics EUCARD |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JHough Mar2017 Perth Astronomical Society talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Perth Astronomical society lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JHough Oct2017 IOP lecture in Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to IOP in Oxford. Roger penrose was in attendance in the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JSteinlechner Painting Planets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | While painting paper plates and Styrofoam spheres, nursery children got some pictures of planets shown and some explanation. They were encouraged to name the planets they made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | K Haughian & P Murray - outreach at WIRED innovation awards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Set-up a gravitational wave exhibit at the WIRED innovation awards in London and discussed gravitational waves, gravitational wave detectors and gravitational wave astronomy with attendees at the event. There was a lot of interest and questions asked about the exhibit and topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | KESS online talk "Einstein Goes to Hollywood" MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public talk on relativity and cosmology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | KHaughian & PMurray - Outreach at Royal SOciety of Edinburgh Royal medal award ceremony |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An exhibit on gravitational waves was set-up for the Royal medal award ceremony at the RSE. Princess Anne came to award the medals and thus came to the exhibit. Gravitational waves and gravitational wave detectors were explained and discussed with Princess Anne and other attendees at the ceremony. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | KHaughian - Space rocks Pint of Science talk 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An evening of talks and activities organised by space scientists working in Scotland. This was a ticketed general public event and over 80 tickets were sold in advance. I gave a talk on gravitational waves and got lots of great questions afterwards from members of the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/space-rocks |
| Description | KStrain ACTA SCIO Troon 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | ACTA SCIO Troon |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | KStrain EISF Gravitational Waves 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | EISF Gravitational Waves |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | KStrain GSF Meet the black hole hunters 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GSF Meet the black hole hunters |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | KStrain Inverclyde Skywatchers 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Inverclyde Skywatchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Kelvin Probus talk Dec2020 JHough |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk given on gravitational waves to a local club (Kelvn Probus club). This club is made up of retired and semi-retired professionals in the west of Glasgow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Lectures to amateur astronomical societies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | IGR staff regularly give invited talks on gravitational wave science to amateur astronomy societies throughout the country, usually at the level of about 4 talks per year. Recent examples include talks given to: Astronomical Society of Glasgow; Renfrewshire Astronomical Society; Stirlingshire Astronomical Society; Aberdeen Astronomical Society; Highlands Astronomical Society; Astronomical Society of Edinburgh; Helensburgh Astronomical Society; Clydesdale Astronomical Society. www.scottishsolarsystem.org.uk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013 |
| Description | Lord Wandsworth College BBarr |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An old friend teaches 6th form physics at Lord Wandsworth College and their class was doing a university level journal club programme where one of the papers studies was the gravitational wave first detection paper. They knew I was an author on the paper so asked me to stop by their virtual classroom and talk to the students/ answer questions etc. Students appeared to enjoy the session and got to see what real life scientists who work on the paper they're studying are like. Reinforcement of physics as a viable career path for students who are at the point of choosing their degree path. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | M van Veggel - Member of RS International Exchange Grants Committeee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Grant review. This impacts on the stimulation of international collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017 |
| Description | MEMS - BBC coverage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | After publication of 'A measurement of the Earth Tides with a MEMS gravimeter' in the journal, Nature we received significant press coverage. Interview snippets were included on BBC radio 2 news, BBC radio Scotland news, BBC radio 4's inside science, BBC World Service's 'Science in Action'. There were also many newspaper articles. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35926147 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35926147 |
| Description | MHednry June2017 Cosmic Collisions lecture, Sanqhuar Town Hall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cosmic collisions lecture to 100 people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendery Nov2017 IOP public lecture University of Salford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | IOP public lecture at University of Salford |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry - Filming for Institute of Physics celebration of first anniversary of Gravitational Wave detection, October 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Filming for Institute of Physics celebration of first anniversary of Gravitational Wave detection, October 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Institute of Physics Scotland public lecture on Gravitational Wave discovery, Glasgow, February 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Institute of Physics Scotland public lecture on Gravitational Wave discovery, Glasgow, February 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Invited keynote lecture at Institute of Physics Scotland Stirling Physics Meeting, May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Invited keynote lecture at Institute of Physics Scotland Stirling Physics Meeting, May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Keynote talk on Gravitational Wave Astronomy at Association for Science Education Scotland AGM, Aberdeen, March 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk on Gravitational Wave Astronomy at Association for Science Education Scotland AGM, Aberdeen, March 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture for East Renfrewshire Schools Advanced Higher Physics pupils, June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture for East Renfrewshire Schools Advanced Higher Physics pupils, June 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy as part of European Astrofest, London, February 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy as part of European Astrofest, London, February 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy at Astronomical Society of Glasgow, December 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy at Astronomical Society of Glasgow, December 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy at Scottish Dark Sky Observatory, December 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy at Scottish Dark Sky Observatory, December 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy for Nottingham University student society, November 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy for Nottingham University student society, November 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy for Sussex Institute of Physics branch, November 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy for Sussex Institute of Physics branch, November 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy for York University student society, January 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy for York University student society, January 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy, Inverclyde Skywatchers, March 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy, Inverclyde Skywatchers, March 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy, Museum of Communications, Burntisland, February 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Lecture on gravitational wave astronomy, Museum of Communications, Burntisland, February 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry - May2017 IOP Lancashire public lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | IOP Lancashire public lecture, University of Central Lancashire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry - May2017 St Columba's Kilmalcolm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Schools talk to 100 pupils at St Columba's Kilmalcolm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry - Panel discussion, accompanying live performance of "Chasing the Waves", Glasgow, December 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Panel discussion, accompanying live performance of "Chasing the Waves", Glasgow, December 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Pint of Science 2016 Festival lecture "Listening to Einstein's Universe", Glasgow, May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Pint of Science 2016 Festival lecture "Listening to Einstein's Universe", Glasgow, May 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Pre-prom talk on gravitational wave astronomy at BBC Proms concert, London, August 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Pre-prom talk on gravitational wave astronomy at BBC Proms concert, London, August 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Public lecture at Glasgow Science Centre, July 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Public lecture at Glasgow Science Centre, July 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Public lecture on Gravitational Wave Astronomy at "Astronomical Telescopes" SPIE Conference, Edinburgh, June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Public lecture on Gravitational Wave Astronomy at "Astronomical Telescopes" SPIE Conference, Edinburgh, June 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Public lecture on Gravitational Wave Astronomy at Beijing Normal University, China, April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Public lecture on Gravitational Wave Astronomy at Beijing Normal University, China, April 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Public talk on Gravitational Wave Astronomy for SIGMA, Elgin, March 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Public talk on Gravitational Wave Astronomy for SIGMA, Elgin, March 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Public talk on gravitational wave astronomy at New Scientist Live, Excel Arena, London, September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Public talk on gravitational wave astronomy at New Scientist Live, Excel Arena, London, September 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Public talk on gravitational wave astronomy at Orkney International Science Festival, September 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Public talk on gravitational wave astronomy at Orkney International Science Festival, September 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Reddit AMA linked to announcement of second gravitational wave detection GW151226, June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Reddit AMA linked to announcement of second gravitational wave detection GW151226, June 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, London, July 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, London, July 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Social media programme linked to announcement of second gravitational wave detection GW151226, June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Social media programme linked to announcement of second gravitational wave detection GW151226, June 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - Talk on gravitational wave astronomy at Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - Talk on gravitational wave astronomy at Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - USA National Science and Engineering Festival, Washington DC, April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - USA National Science and Engineering Festival, Washington DC, April 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry - White House Frontiers Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry - White House Frontiers Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry -Invited lecture at X-STEM Conference, USA Science and Engineering Festival, April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | MHendry -Invited lecture at X-STEM Conference, USA Science and Engineering Festival, April 2016 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MHendry Apr2018 Public lecture Royal Scottish Society for the Arts, Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | public lecture to 70 people at Royal Scottish Society for the Arts in Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Aug2017 LIGO Salem Oregon Eclipse Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Event in Salem for the eclipse. LIGO stand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Dec2017 Public lecture, Scottish Dark Sky Observatory |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture, Scottish Dark Sky Observatory |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Dec2017 public lecture, Dumfries Astronomical Club, Dumfries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture, Dumfries Astronomical Club, Dumfries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry GHammond Dec2017 IOP Scotland public lecture, University of Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | IOP Scotland public lecture at the University of Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry June 2017 David Elder Lecture, Glasgow Science Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | David Elder lecture at Glasgow Science Centre to 180 members of the general public |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry June 2017 STEM celebration talk at Glasgow Science Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | STEM celebration talk at Glasgow Science Centre to 200 people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry May2017 North Lanarkshire Schools Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | North Lanarkshire schools visit by S2 science students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Nov2017 IOP Scotland Festival of Physics Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | IOP Scotland Festival of Physics in Edinburgh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Nov2017 Portsmouth and Southsea Physical Society public lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture at Portsmouth and Southsea Physical Society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Nov2017 School talk, Bishopbriggs Academy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School talk to 100 pupils at Bishopbriggs Academy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Oct 2017 School talk Balfrom High School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | School talk to 100 pupils at Balfron High School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Oct2017 Dark Matter Day reception, Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dark Matter Day reception in Edinburgh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Oct2017 Einstein goes to Hollywood public talk, Ardrossan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Einstein goes to Holywood talk to ~30 people in Ardrossan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Oct2017 IOP Scotland public lecture, Inverness Royal Academy, Inverness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | IOP Scotland public lecture at Inverness Royal Academy to 100 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Oct2017 Popular lecture, National Physics Laborartory, Teddington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Popular lecture at National Physical Laboratory in Teddington |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Oct2017 Public lecture Eastgate Centre, Peebles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture at Eastgate Centre in Peebles to 70 people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry PMurray Sept2017 Public lecture as part of RSE Inverness programme, Inverness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture as part of RSE Inverness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Sept2017 Lecture to Science Museum Trustees, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to 30 Science Museum trustees in London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry Sept2017 School talk Sutton Grammar Schoolm London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk to 200 pupils at Sutton Grammar School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry- May2018 IOP Scotland Physics Teachers' Stirling meeting keynote talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk at IOP Scotland Teachers Stirling meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MHendry-July2017 George Fraser Memorial lecture, Forres |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | George Fraser memorial lecture to 100 people given in Forres, Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Marin H Touching SpaceTime 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Video project showcasing STFC Gravitational Wave research, May 2013 Displayed at University of Glasgow for 1 week in two public locations; seen by several hundred people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin Science Slam (2) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | First London Science Slam event. Presentation on PhD research, The Proud, Camden Approx. 40 in audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H 2020 Vision (2) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to West Kintyre Stargazers, The Putechan Hotel, Campbeltown, Nov 24th2013 Lecture attended by approx. 40 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H 2020 Vision 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture for Clydesdale Astronomical Society, Forth, Apr 8th 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 25 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Amaldi public engagement session 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Co-chair of Session Organisation of parallel session on public engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H An introduction to Stellar Astrophysics 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lectures for Higher Physics and Advanced Higher Physics students at Dollar Academy, May 2nd 2013. Lectures attended by approx. 30 students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Arthur C Clarke awards 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion, on relationship between science and science fiction, at the Royal Society, London, May 2013. Audience of several hundred at event; live streamed on the internet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H BBC Brainwaves 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio Scotland science magazine series 30-minute radio interview on gravitational wave astrophysics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Martin H BBC Stargazing Live 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public astronomy event at Braehead Shopping Centre, January 2014, at invitation of BBC Scotland and BBC Learning. Event attended by approx. 250 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Martin H Can You Hear Black Holes? 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited participation as part of Dundee Science Festival, Nov 9th 2013. Demonstrations visited by approx. 50 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Exhibition on human versus machine sensing 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Glasgow Science Festival Public Engagement Internship, June 2013 Audience of several hundred viewing exhibit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (14) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to West Kintyre Stargazers, The Putechan Hotel, Campbeltown, Apr 7th 2013 Lecture attended by approx. 60 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (15) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture for East Ayrshire Secondary School, S3 - S4 pupils, St Joseph's Academy Kilmarnock, June 4th 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 250 S3-S4 pupils. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (16) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Lectures delivered to secondary schools in Shetland, June 20th-21st 2013. Lectures delivered to approx. 200 S3-S6 pupils in Anderson High School, Brae High School and Aith Junior High School. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (17) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited public lecture in Shetland Museum, June 22nd 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 100 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Famelab Scottish Final |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 3 minute science presentation, Edinburgh University Audience of approx. 120 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Famelab South of Scotland heats 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 3 minute science presentation, Edinburgh University Audience of approx. 40 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Glasgow University Open Day (2) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Interactive exhibit and display, Glasgow University, Sep 2013 Approx. 200 visitors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Glasgow University Open Day 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Interactive exhibit and display, Glasgow University, June 2013 Approx. 200 visitors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H How to Build a Planet 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Series consultant for BBC series presented by Richard Hammond Series audience figures of several million |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H IoP Women Into Physics Event 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Interactive exhibit and demonstrations,Vale of Leven Academy, Jan 2014 Approx. 200 students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Martin H Meet the Expert 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gravitational wave exhibition at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, April 2013 Exhibition visited by approx. 50 people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H PubhD 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | First Glasgow PubhD event. Science in the Pub event, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Feb 2014 Approx. 50 in audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Martin H RSE Astrophysics masterclass 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Activity session for S1 and S2 pupils, Nov 2013 Approx. 60 participants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H RSE NAM workshop 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Exchange of best practice, ideas for future collaboration. Increased collaboration on public engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H RSE Young People's Outreach Programme for Schools (2) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Visit to North Berwick High School, September 2013 Schools talk to approx. 30 pupils. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H RSE Young People's Outreach Programme for Schools (3) 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Haycocks Primary School, North Ayrshire, February 2014 Schools talk to approx. 40 pupils. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H RSE Young People's Outreach Programme for Schools (4) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Visit to St Thomas' Primary School, Keith, March 2014 Schools talk to approx. 60 pupils. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Martin H RSE Young People's Outreach Programme for Schools 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Visit to St John the Baptist Primary, Fauldhouse, April 2013 Schools talk to approx. 35 pupils. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Science Slam 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | First UK Science Slam event. Presentation on PhD research, Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow Approx. 50 in audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Supernovae 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited participation as part of "Science Sunday" in Glasgow Science Festival, June 2013. Demonstrations visited by approx. 2000 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Talk on Astronomical Telescopes (2) 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Clydesdale Astronomical Society, Forth, February 2014 Public talk to approx. 15 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Martin H Talk on Astronomical Telescopes 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Dundee Astronomical Society, Mills Observatory, Dundee, November 2013 Public talk to approx. 20 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H The Physics of Star Wars (5) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to IoP Hereford and Worcester Centre, University of Worcester, Apr 24th 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 150 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H The Physics of Star Wars (6) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited participation as part of Dumfries and Galloway Science Festival, May 4th 2013. Lecture / demonstrations attended by approx. 200 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H The Physics of Star Wars (7) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to IoP West Midlands Branch, University of Keele, Nov 7th, 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 100 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H The Physics of Star Wars (8) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to IoP Nottingham Branch, University of Nottingham, Dec 3rd, 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 80 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H The Science of Star Wars (2) 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture, as part of Middle of Scotland Science Festival, Crianlarich, May 4th 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 50 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H Three Minute Thesis Competition 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 3 minute science presentation, Glasgow University, March 2014 Audience of approx. 100 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Martin H UK Space Conference 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Interactive exhibit and display, SECC, July 2013 Approx. 300 visitors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Martin H WSTE Conference 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave invited lecture at WSTE Conference, Sarawak, Malaysia, October 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 100 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | MartinH "Powers of 60" Multi-messenger Astronomy Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | http://www.tinyurl.com/powersof60/ Exhibition seen by more than 6000 people to date. Online legacy version will be maintained on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Education and Public Outreach Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH - Feb2018 Cafe Scientifique Francais, Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture to Cafe Scientifique Francais, Glasgow by MArtin Hendry and Laurence Datrier |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MartinH 2020 Vision: the Future of Astronomical Observations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk for IoP "Science in the quad" event at Robert Gordon's College, part of British Science Festival, Aberdeen, September 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 30 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH 2020 Vision: the Future of Astronomical Observations (2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote lecture for Association for Science Education Scotland annual conference, Crieff Hydro Hotel, March 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 80 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | MartinH 2nd USA Science and Engineering Festival 2012 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Display of exhibit on gravitational wave astronomy - at the 2nd USA Science and Engineering Festival, Washington DC, April 2012 - representing the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. LSC Exhibit visited by more than 10000 participants. Subsequent invitation to present exhibit at Aspen Science Festival and Gravity Fields Festival, and to re-exhibit at 3rd USA Science and Engineering Festival, Washington DC, April 2014. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Advanced Higher Stellar Astrophysics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | CPD Teachers' workshop on stellar astrophysics for early adopters of Revised syllabus Advanced Higher Physics in the Curriculum for Excellence. Workshop attended by 12 teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH BBC Stargazing Live in Scotland (1) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited appearance on BBC Radio Scotland "Good Morning Scotland", to discuss BBC Stargazing Live 2013 events in Scotland. Widespread coverage of interview on twitter and facebook, and BBC website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | MartinH Big Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited workshop on science in large collaborations, for University of Glasgow Open Access Programme on "Highlights of Astronomy", February 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 25 students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH British Science Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Appointed 2012 Chair of Physics and Astronomy section of the British Science Association. Ex officio, organisation of a public outreach session on "The Extreme Universe" for 2012 British Science Festival in Aberdeen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH British Science Association - West Scotland Branch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Elected chair of the British Science Association West Scotland branch. Organisation of science outreach events across Glasgow and throughout the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013 |
| URL | http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/scotland/west-scotland-branch |
| Description | MartinH Captain Cook and the Cosmic Yardstick (1) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to Dumfries Astronomical Society, January 2012, describing the history of the Transit of Venus and its use in determining the cosmic distance scale. Lecture attended by approx. 25 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Captain Cook and the Cosmic Yardstick (3) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Royal Observatory Greenwich, April 2012, describing the history of the Transit of Venus and its use in determining the cosmic distance scale. Lecture attended by approx. 30 participants. Subsequent invitations to various UK astronomical societies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Einstein's Cosmic Messengers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on "Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Opening a New Window on the Universe", to accompany European premiere of "Einstein's Cosmic Messengers" - multimedia concert by composer and percussionist Andrea Centazzo, University of Glasgow, October 2012. Extensive coverage of lecture on twitter and facebook. Lecture and concert attended by approx. 160 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (1) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to Science Club, Wellington Academy, Ayr, February 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 35 staff and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (10) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on cosmology and gravitational astrophysics, for the Ayrshire Astronomical Association, Ayr Academy, November 2012. Lecture delivered to approx. 40 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (11) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on cosmology and gravitational astrophysics, for the Airdrie Astronomical Association, Airdrie Library, February 2013. Lecture delivered to approx. 40 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (12) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on cosmology and gravitational astrophysics, for Wallace High School, Stirling, organised as part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh schools outreach programme, February 2013. Lecture delivered to approx. 100 students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (13) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on cosmology and gravitational astrophysics, for Allan's Primary School, Stirling, organised as part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh schools outreach programme, February 2013. Lecture delivered to approx. 25 students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lectures for St Andrews and St Brides High School, East Kilbride, as part of Primary 7 transition project, February 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 80 students and their parents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (3) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Series of 27 Schools and public lectures on gravitational astrophysics and cosmology, across 9 Scottish Hebridean islands in 9 days for UK National Science and Engineering Week, March 2012. Lectures delivered to approx. 1600 people. Coverage in local and national press. Blog highlighted by British Science Association and by Royal Society of Edinburgh as part of their outreach programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (5) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk for Orkney International Science Festival, Kirkwall, September 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 100 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (6) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Schools talk for Orkney International Science Festival, Kirkwall Grammar School, September 2012. Lectures attended by approx. 120 students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (7) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited CPD session for secondary school teachers, organised in collaboration with IoP Scotland, Edinburgh, Nov 2012. Session attended by approx. 80 teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (8) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on cosmology and gravitational astrophysics, at Ardnamurchan High School, Strontian, for Royal Society of Edinburgh "Lochaber" outreach project, November 2012. Lectures delivered to approx. 60 students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe (9) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited public lecture on cosmology and gravitational astrophysics, in Kilchoan Ardnamurchan, for Royal Society of Edinburgh "Lochaber" outreach project, November 2012. Lecture delivered to approx. 30 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Gravitational Waves: Opening a New Window on the Universe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on cosmology and gravitational astrophysics, at George Watson's School, Edinburgh, November 2012. Lecture delivered to approx. 40 students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Gravitational Waves: Opening a New Window on the Universe (2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on cosmology and gravitational astrophysics, for the Kilmarnock Engineering and Science Society, Kilmarnock College, November 2012. Lecture delivered to approx. 50 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Gravity Fields Festival, Grantham, Sep 2012 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Display of exhibit on gravitational wave astronomy - at the inaugural Gravity Fields Festival - representing the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. In collaboration with University of Birmingham. Exhibit visited by more than 1000 festival participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Gravity Fields Festival, Grantham, Sep 2012 (2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on "Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Opening a New Window on the Universe", for inaugural Gravity Fields Festival, Grantham, 26th September 2012. Extensive coverage of lecture on twitter and facebook. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH Gravity Fields: The Material World, Sep 2012 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited appearance on Radio 4 "The Material World" to discuss gravitational-wave astronomy, as part of Gravity Fields Festival, Grantham, 26th September 2012. Extensive coverage of interview on twitter and facebook. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH LIGO Scientific Collaboration Education and Public Outreach Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Coordination of LSC public outreach activities, including maintenance of LIGO social media output, production of public science summaries of LSC publications, participation in national and international science festivals and science fairs and production of multimedia and other outreach resources for use by members of the collaboration. Ongoing. See other entries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013 |
| Description | MartinH The Future of Science in Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | European Science Foundation workshops, on the Future of Science in Society, held at the University of Vienna, February 2012 and June 2012. Participation was to represent Physical Sciences standing committee of the ESF. Formal ESF report produced with detailed recommendations from the workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH The Physics of Star Wars |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture (featuring black holes and gravitational-wave astronomy) for Institute of Physics "Festival of Science", organised in Bristol by IoP South-West branch, March 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 300 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH The Physics of Star Wars (2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture (featuring black holes and gravitational-wave astronomy) for Institute of Physics North-West branch, Whitehaven, May 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 75 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH The Physics of Star Wars (3) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture (featuring black holes and gravitational-wave astronomy) for STFC graduate training programme, Cosener's House, Abingdon, October 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 40 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH The Physics of Star Wars (4) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture (featuring black holes and gravitational-wave astronomy) for Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, March 2013. Lecture attended by approx. 30 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | MartinH The Science of Star Wars |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture (featuring black holes and gravitational-wave astronomy) at Gray Fossil Museum, East Tennessee State University, May 4th (Star Wars Day) 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 50 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH The Transit of Venus 2012 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at UK National Astronomy Meeting, Manchester, Mar 28th 2012, to describe UK plans to mark the June 2012 Transit of Venus. UK-level and international Transit of Venus events were arranged and coordinated as a result of this talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH The Transit of Venus 2012 (2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture, on the physics of transits, for the IoP Stirling Physics Teachers' Meeting, May 2012. Lecture attended by approx. 180 participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MartinH The Transit of Venus 2012 (3) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | All-night event to celebrate the June 5th/6th 2012 Transit of Venus, linking with science centres, observatories and schools in the US, Canada and Australia and culminating with an attempt to view the end of the Transit from the University of Glasgow, at dawn on June 6th. Event organised in collaboration with Glasgow Science Festival. Event attended by approx 100 participants. Extensive twitter and facebook coverage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | MattP Blog (cosmiczoo) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog posts (and associated advertising of them via social media channels) related to the first observations of gravitational waves. Also, an online science summary for a search performed looking for gravitational waves from pulsars http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-O1KnownPulsar/index.php |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://cosmiczoo.blogspot.co.uk/ |
| Description | MattP Public talk for the Airdrie Astronomical Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public talk for the Airdrie Astronomical Association - Informing general public about research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MattP Public talk for the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public talk for the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh, informing general public about research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MattP TEDxGlasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Outreach booth at TEDxGlasgow - a booth creating 3D printed models of gravitational wave signals, and discussing the recent discovery of gravitational waves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | NKorsakova Inverclyde Sky Watchers 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk to Inverclyde Sky Watchers Astronomy Group about LISA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | National Geographic: GW190521 CBerry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for National Geographic article on GW190521 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/shocking-black-hole-triggered-gigantic-cosmic-bang... |
| Description | Nature: GW190521 CBerry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Nature article on GW190521 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02524-w |
| Description | Online Google hangout for Deep Astronomy podcast MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Online public talk for Renfrewshire Astronomical Society MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public talk on relativity and cosmology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Online public talk for Swindon Stargazers MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public talk on relativity and cosmology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Online schools talk for Cultural Collisions conference, Bosnia & Herzegovina MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Schools talk for high school students on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Online talk for Ratio podcast, Bulgaria MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Café Scientifique discussion about gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Online talk on Gravitational Wave Astronomy for Loughborough Space MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | PDupej 2018 Alumni school talk Slovakia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Public talk about LIGO and discoveries of gravitational waves. This talk was part of an Alumni series of talks at a former high school in Bratislava, Slovakia. The talk was about 1h long followed by a 30 minutes QA and discussion with the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | PMurray Listening to Einstein's Universe Talk to A-level students at Graveney School, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk to A-level students at Graveney School, London about the detection of Gravitational Waves |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Press release: GW190814 CBerry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release aboutthe discovery of GW190814 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2020/june/headline_727833_en.html |
| Description | RSE School Talk MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Schools lectures for Royal Society of Edinburgh schools programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | RSE schools talk, online MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Schools lectures for Royal Society of Edinburgh schools programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | RSE/MOST workshop - lab tour BBarr |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During a combined meeting/workshop between the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and the Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) I gave laboratory tours of our local facilities to Taiwanese researchers interested in gravitational wave interferometry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Regular visits to local schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | IGR make regular visits to give talks and lead workshops in local high schools. These visits are made by staff at all levels but particularly by postgraduate students and early-career postdocs. Many of these visits are supported and coordinated by Science Connects (formerly SETPOINT) and are thus linked to the STEM Ambassador scheme. Informal feedback from schools to our STEM Ambassadors and other visitors is highly positive. Over the past 5 years the size of our Level 1 undergraduate classes in Physics and Astronomy has increased by more than 50%. Our schools outreach activities are among the factors that have brought about this increase. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 |
| Description | Royal Institution auction and tour - 2018 - SRowan PMurray KHaughian CMessenger JVeitch MPitkin and others |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The royal Institution auctioned a lab tour at our facilities including a meet and greet with the scientists. this involved advertising publicly the auction with a brief description of the work carried out in the IGR at the University of glasgow and also the gravitational waves work carried out worldwide. The winner of the auction visitied our department for lab tours and discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Royal Society Partnerships grant conference JHough 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk on career to Teachers, pupils and politicians at RS Partnership grants conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, London Jul7 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The summer science exhibition is an event which lasted over a week. We had an exhibition stand displaying the gravitational wave research carried out in the UK. This was a stand organised by several institutions across the UK. The Glasgow people involved were Martin Hendry, James Hough, Sheila Rowan, Peter Murray, Karen Haughian, Marielle van Veggel and Natalia Korsakova. The purpose of the event is to tell the general public and school groups about the gravitational wave research that is going on in the UK. This is done through discussions and demonstrations of the technology, games and freebies. MPs alos attended the event and tweeted about our stand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2017/summer-science-exhibition |
| Description | SHeng Tsinghua University news conference 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I presented at a news conference at Tsinghua University on GW170817 Oct 17 and answered questions from journalists. The press conference was streamed live over the internet with at least 50,000 live viewers and I think half a million follow-up views (but I am not very sure about this). I am aware of at least one newspaper article written about me, resulting from the Tsinghua interview, and at least one article circulated over the Chinese social media (WeChat). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SR Ailsa Sparkes Memorial Lecture 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The (Inaugural) Ailsa Sparkes Memorial Lecture, Edinburgh. This talk discussed the discovery, the status of observations since then, plans for the global network of advanced gravitational wave detectors and what the future of the field might look like. This resulted in enhanced recognition of the group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SR Higgs lecture 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The fifth annual Higgs Lecture - 'Gravitational waves: prospects for a new astronomy'. Resulting in enhanced recognition of the group and field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SRowan BBC Radio 4 Colliding Neutron Stars, Krakatoa, Centigrade vs Celsius 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Adam Rutherford talks to astrophysicists about the astronomical discovery of the year, if not the last couple of decades: the collision of two neutron stars and the cosmic gold-forging aftermath. The discovery of this long-hypothesized event on 17th August came from the much awaited marriage of the capabilities of the gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo with those of ground-based and space-based telescopes. Samaya Nissanke of Radboud University, Sheila Rowan of the University of Glasgow and Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester take Inside Science through the story. BBC Radio 4 Inside Science (2017). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098bt42 |
| Description | SRowan Buzzfeed third detection (2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Buzzfeed News article about the third confirmed detection of gravitational waves from colliding black holes (2017). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/scientists-have-seen-two-more-black-holes-colliding-so |
| Description | SRowan David Elder lecture 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Glasgow Science Centre is proud to host the David Elder Lectures in partnership with the University of Strathclyde's Department of Physics. The David Elder lecture series presents a line-up of fascinating talks by expert astronomers at the cutting edge of their fields of research. This lecture series continues the tradition of monthly astronomy lectures in Glasgow which began with the first David Elder Lecture in 1905, 112 years ago! 31 Jan 2018, Prof. Sheila Rowan "Gravitational waves - turning on the soundtrack to the Universe". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/discover/adult-events/david-elder-lectures/past-lectures |
| Description | SRowan IFL Science 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with IFL Science about the third gravitational wave detection (2017). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.iflscience.com/space/gravitational-waves-observed-for-a-third-time/ |
| Description | SRowan John Porter Memorial Lecture IoP Liverpool 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | For the 2017 John Porter Memorial Lecture, in collaboration with the Institute of Physics, Professor Sheila Rowan will talk about the decades-long search for gravitational waves, the exciting recent first discoveries, and the future of gravitational wave astronomy. In this public talk, Professor Rowan will tell the story behind the discoveries, talk about some of the extreme objects that produce the Waves, and look into the future of gravitational wave astronomy and the new window it opens up into the universe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SRowan Radio 4 Forensics Centre in Dundee; D'Arcy Thompson centenary; Scottish science adviser; Coffee and climate 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Astrophysicist Sheila Rowan has been the Chief Science Adviser to the Scottish Government for just over a year. Adam asks her about the role and how she deals with controversial issues such as GM crops. BBC Radio 4 Inside Science (2017) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tvjk5 |
| Description | SRowan Radio 4 Gravity wave breakthrough, The antibiotic pipeline, Microbial waste recycling, Fausto - an AI opera 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The gravitational waves produced by two massive black holes colliding have for the first time been detected by three gravitational wave detectors. Professor Sheila Rowan of the University of Glasgow explains the importance of this new three way observation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095pttk |
| Description | SRowan Radio 4 Infinite Monkey Cage 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by comedian Dara O'Briain, Professor Sheila Rowan of Glasgow University and Professor Nils Andersson of Southampton University to look at last summer's spectacular discovery of gravitational waves from two colliding neutron stars. BBC Radio 4 (2017) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kxt28 |
| Description | SRowan Radio 4 Scottish Science Special Today programme 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview on BBC Radio 4 (Inside Science, Scottish Science Special; The curious cases of Rutherford and Fry; The Today Programme). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08svw56 |
| Description | SRowan STV Nobel Prize announcement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Short interview with STV News about the announcement of the Nobel Prize for the detection of gravitational waves (2017) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1399075-scots-scientists-celebrate-nobel-prize-contribution/ |
| Description | SRowan World Service Antibiotic Resistance 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The gravitational waves produced by two massive black holes colliding two billion years ago have been detected by three gravitational wave detectors for the first time. Professor Sheila Rowan of the University of Glasgow explains the importance of this new three way observation. BBC World Service Inside Science (2017). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv1fb |
| Description | SRowan World Service Black Hole and Sonic Weapons - Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Astrophysicist Sheila Rowan explains how we know invisible black holes actually exist. Plus cosmologist Andrew Pontzen is on hand to help cook one up. Broadcast on BBC World Service (2017). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswd1v |
| Description | SRowan World Service Stars Colliding 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Astrophysicists Samaya Nissanke of Radboud University and Sheila Rowan of the University of Glasgow discuss the astronomical discovery of the year, if not the last couple of decades: the collision of two neutron stars and the cosmic gold-forging aftermath. The discovery of this long-hypothesized event on 17th August came from the much awaited marriage of the capabilities of the gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo with those of ground-based and space-based telescopes. BBC World Service The Science Hour (2017). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csv1ff |
| Description | SRowan and KStrain Edinburgh Science Festival 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An event on gravitational waves at the Edinburgh Science Festival with two University of Glasgow physicists who played key roles in their discovery - Ken Strain and Sheila Rowan, Scientific Advisor to the Scottish government. The event was in the National Museums of Scotland. The audience asked loads of good questions like: What happens when a gravitational wave hits a black hole? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://marcuschown.com/2017/04/edinburgh-science-festival-13-april-8pm/ |
| Description | Science Alert: GW190412 CBerry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for ScienceAlert article on GW190412 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.sciencealert.com/this-black-hole-collision-is-the-first-with-wildly-mismatched-masses |
| Description | Science and Society Lecture, University of Liverpool SRowan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Give tScience and Society Lecture at the University of Liverpool |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Science summaries translation (ligo.org) SHuttner |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Translations into German |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | http://ligo.org |
| Description | Space.com GW190814 CBerry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Space.com article on GW190814 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.space.com/smallest-black-hole-biggest-neutron-stary-mystery-object.html |
| Description | Strathallan School visit SRowan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited to Strathallan School to talk to the students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk on gravitational waves to STFC staff at Daresbury lab JHough 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave an outreach talk on gravitationalw waves and their detectionto STFC staff at Daresbury lab |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Royal Institution, 'in conversation with' SRowan 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gravitational waves and beyond: In conversation with Sheila Rowan talk for Royal Institution |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2018/april/patron-gravitational-waves-and-beyond |
| Description | Translating GW outreach material - SHuttner 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Materal is produced by the Education and Public Outreach group within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. These were translated into different languages in order to be distributed further. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UKRI launch event 2018 - KHaughian KToland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKRI had a launch event in London in May 2018. Each of the 8 individual research councils selected an area of research which they would like to showcase. STFC chose gravitational waves. " members of the IGR from the University of Glasgow attended the event with a GEO600 detector suspension and discussed gravitational waves research with the invited attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | University of West of Scotland Science Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give an 'Inspiring Women' talk at UWS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://healthlifesciences.uws.ac.uk/2019/01/07/professor-sheila-rowan-mbe-on-making-waves-in-science... |
| Description | Webinar for Global Hands on Universe online conference MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar for Institute of Physics MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar for LIGO India GW@Home programme MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar for Pabna University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh MHendry Dec2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar for Pabna University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh Oct2020 MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Webinar on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |