Investigations in Gravitational Radiation
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Einstein's General Relativity predicts that dynamical systems in strong gravitational fields will emit vast amounts of energy in the form of gravitational waves (GW). These are ripples in the very fabric of spacetime that travel from their sources at the speed of light, carrying information about physical processes responsible for their emission. They are among the most elusive signals from the deepest reaches in the Universe.
In September 2015, during the 1st Advanced LIGO observing run, gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes were discovered using the LIGO observatories. The detection of GW150914 resulted in the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with explicit recognition of the role of the UK as a critical part of the global team.
In August 2017, during the 2nd observing run, LIGO and Virgo detected the first gravitational wave signal from the collision of two neutron stars. GW170817 was observed in coincidence with a gamma-ray burst (GRB) as well as signals across the electromagnetic spectrum, including the optical and infra-red signature of a kilonova. These discoveries have established a new paradigm of multi-messenger astrophysics
The 3rd observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (AdV), O3, started on 1st April 2019 and ended in March 2020 during the end of which time the Japanese KAGRA instrument joined the observing network.
Modelling GW sources has allowed deeper searches and data from LIGO, Virgo, and GEO have increased our understanding of astronomical phenomena.
We are now able to make regular observations of GWs. To date close to 60 observations of coalescing objects, with an unexpectedly wide range of masses, have been made, with event rates being approximately 1 per week. We now have evidence for the existence of black hole/neutron star binaries, the existence of objects in the mass gap between accepted neutron star masses and black hole masses and the first real experimental evidence for the existence of intermediate mass black holes.
The aLIGO detectors are based on the quasi-monolithic silica suspension concept developed in the UK for GEO600 and on the high-power lasers developed by our German colleagues in GEO600. The AdV detector also uses a variant of the silica suspension technology. Further, KAGRA is being built with input on cryogenic bonding technology from the UK groups.
The consortium groups have led searches for astronomical sources, thanks to funding support received, since first data taking runs began 18 years ago. Key ingredients of several searches were developed at Glasgow.
We propose a programme that exploits data from aLIGO, AdV, and KAGRA building on our analysis of data from the most recent LIGO/Virgo science runs.
In particular we will observe and analyse signals from the LIGO / Virgo/ KAGRA detector network with particular emphasis on compact binary inference, population and cosmological measurements - measurement of the Hubble Constant and tests of General Relativity, application of machine learning techniques for increased efficiency in modelling signals. performing searches etc and the search for gravitational wave emission from neutron stars.
In parallel, we propose essential detector R&D. Detector sensitivity is mainly limited by thermal noise associated with the substrates of the mirrors, their reflective coatings, and their suspension elements, as well as by noise resulting from the quantum nature of the light used in sensing. Our research is targeted towards making innovative improvements in these areas, essential to maximize the astrophysical potential of GW observatories.
We have major responsibilities for the silica suspensions in aLIGO, and in the development of enhancements and upgrades to the aLIGO detectors (to form aLIGO+), along with R&D in the areas of mirror coatings for low thermal noise, silicon substrates, cryogenic suspensions and improved interferometer topologies to combat quantum noise.
In September 2015, during the 1st Advanced LIGO observing run, gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes were discovered using the LIGO observatories. The detection of GW150914 resulted in the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with explicit recognition of the role of the UK as a critical part of the global team.
In August 2017, during the 2nd observing run, LIGO and Virgo detected the first gravitational wave signal from the collision of two neutron stars. GW170817 was observed in coincidence with a gamma-ray burst (GRB) as well as signals across the electromagnetic spectrum, including the optical and infra-red signature of a kilonova. These discoveries have established a new paradigm of multi-messenger astrophysics
The 3rd observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (AdV), O3, started on 1st April 2019 and ended in March 2020 during the end of which time the Japanese KAGRA instrument joined the observing network.
Modelling GW sources has allowed deeper searches and data from LIGO, Virgo, and GEO have increased our understanding of astronomical phenomena.
We are now able to make regular observations of GWs. To date close to 60 observations of coalescing objects, with an unexpectedly wide range of masses, have been made, with event rates being approximately 1 per week. We now have evidence for the existence of black hole/neutron star binaries, the existence of objects in the mass gap between accepted neutron star masses and black hole masses and the first real experimental evidence for the existence of intermediate mass black holes.
The aLIGO detectors are based on the quasi-monolithic silica suspension concept developed in the UK for GEO600 and on the high-power lasers developed by our German colleagues in GEO600. The AdV detector also uses a variant of the silica suspension technology. Further, KAGRA is being built with input on cryogenic bonding technology from the UK groups.
The consortium groups have led searches for astronomical sources, thanks to funding support received, since first data taking runs began 18 years ago. Key ingredients of several searches were developed at Glasgow.
We propose a programme that exploits data from aLIGO, AdV, and KAGRA building on our analysis of data from the most recent LIGO/Virgo science runs.
In particular we will observe and analyse signals from the LIGO / Virgo/ KAGRA detector network with particular emphasis on compact binary inference, population and cosmological measurements - measurement of the Hubble Constant and tests of General Relativity, application of machine learning techniques for increased efficiency in modelling signals. performing searches etc and the search for gravitational wave emission from neutron stars.
In parallel, we propose essential detector R&D. Detector sensitivity is mainly limited by thermal noise associated with the substrates of the mirrors, their reflective coatings, and their suspension elements, as well as by noise resulting from the quantum nature of the light used in sensing. Our research is targeted towards making innovative improvements in these areas, essential to maximize the astrophysical potential of GW observatories.
We have major responsibilities for the silica suspensions in aLIGO, and in the development of enhancements and upgrades to the aLIGO detectors (to form aLIGO+), along with R&D in the areas of mirror coatings for low thermal noise, silicon substrates, cryogenic suspensions and improved interferometer topologies to combat quantum noise.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- Tongji University (Collaboration)
- European Gravitational Observatory (Collaboration)
- California Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- GEO collaboration (Collaboration)
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (Collaboration)
- ETH Zurich (Collaboration)
- Hubei University of Education (Collaboration)
- Sun Yat-sen University (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Collaboration)
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration (Collaboration)
- LIGO (Collaboration)
- Penn State University (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Shandong University (Collaboration)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- INFN Sezione di Perugia (Collaboration)
- Max Planck Society (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- University Libre Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB) (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- University of the West of Scotland (Collaboration)
- Australia Telescope National Facility (Collaboration)
- INFN Sezione di Pisa (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Collaboration)
- Australian Research Council (Collaboration)
- HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Collaboration)
- Tsinghua University China (Collaboration)
- Syracuse University (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Collaboration)
- Maastricht University (UM) (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef (Collaboration)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- California State University, Fullerton (Collaboration)
- Changchun University (Collaboration)
- Beijing Normal University (Collaboration)
Publications
Aasi J
(2021)
Erratum: "Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Nine Young Supernova Remnants" (2015, ApJ, 813, 39) *
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2021)
A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2021)
Erratum: "A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo" (2021, ApJ, 909, 218)
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2021)
Erratum: "Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO" (2019, ApJ, 875, 122) *
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott R
(2022)
Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with a hidden Markov model in O3 LIGO data
in Physical Review D
Abbott R
(2021)
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run
in Physical Review D
Abbott R
(2021)
All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in the early O3 LIGO data
in Physical Review D
Abbott R
(2021)
All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems
in Physical Review D
Abbott R
(2022)
Narrowband Searches for Continuous and Long-duration Transient Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars in the LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run
in The Astrophysical Journal
| Title | Gravitational wave mosaic |
| Description | A large scale artwork made in collaboration with students at Cardonald Primary School, this piece is a 2.5mx2.5m large mosaic representing the signal from the first ever detection of gravitational waves, the piece shows the importance of collaboration in moder scientific discovery's as over 1200 individual pixels of paper recycled from scientific publications and presentations have been hand coloured by the students and put together to reproduce this discovery that lead to the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The creation of this artwork had a notable impact on the students (and staff) at Cardonald Primary School. The whole school contributed to it's creation and feedback showed is made the students more interested in science. The artwork will be in future displayed in multiple locations from museums and art galleries to have further impact as a point of interest and inspiration. |
| Title | Swimming with gravitational waves |
| Description | Swimming with Gravitational Waves is a cross discipline performance event that combines science communication with electronic musical performance and physical activity. The event is inspired by the work of gravitational wave astrophysicists and turns science into art with a musical performance in the immersive environment of a swimming pool. The event includes a public outreach talk on the science behind the show and an experience aimed at exciting the imagination of the public while showing the creativity that links the art and science sectors. This event was created in 2023 with pilot events in Birmingham (Mosely Road Baths July 2023) and Glasgow (Arlington Baths Nov 2023) |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | This artistic produce has had a noticeable impact in the first year that it has been run, from the two events in Birmingham and Glasgow there are been multiple expressions of interest in future events of the same type and based on feedback from the events has had a high impact on the public appreciation of scientific research. |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2023/november/headline_1023649_en.html |
| Title | The triumph of GW150914 |
| Description | Winning entry to University of Glasgow Research First competition |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Increased exposure for gravitational wave research |
| URL | https://osf.io/9wvbu/ |
| Description | Call for evidence - UK astronomy - 2023 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/126051/pdf/ |
| Description | GWoan Chair of the STFC DiRAC oversight Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | GWoan Member of the STFC GOTO Oversight Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | IOPS committee member KHaughian |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/physics-community/iop-membership-where-you-are/iop-scotland#gref |
| Description | MHendry Chair of Learned Societies Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/independent-review-education-scotland-scottish-qualification-autho... |
| Description | MHendry Institute of Physics Education Committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | As Chair of IOP Scotland Education Committee and member of IOP Education Committee, I have contributed to the organisation and delivery of STEM-related teacher online CPD provision that mitigated the adverse impacts of the COVID pandemic. |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/education |
| Description | MHendry Member of Advisory Committee, PGI, National Physical Laboratory |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | As a member of the NPL Postgraduate Institute External Advisory Board, responsible for advising PGI on best practice in postgraduate training and skills development. |
| Description | Member of Royal Society Education Committee JHough 2020-end 2022 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Provide advice on education matters. Specifically work to support and develop the teaching of physics. |
| Description | Panel Member STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship JVeitch |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | SWebster UK Quantum Strategy Call for Evidence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Senior independent member STFC Council SRowan |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://stfc.ukri.org/about-us/how-we-are-governed/council/ |
| Description | Vice chair of IOPS - K Haughian |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Advise on physics related issues in Scotland |
| Description | Vice president and physical secretary of the Royal Society - S Rowan |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/news/2023/07/professor-sheila-rowan-physical-secretary/ |
| Description | Early technology developments for gravitational-wave instrumentation and wider applications |
| Amount | £191,652 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/X004929/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Enhanced Instrumentation for Gravitational Wave Research |
| Amount | £110,575 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/W005395/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | Establishing the design and development of novel crystalline-amorphous hybrid optical coatings for precision measurements and frequency standards |
| Amount | £232,779 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/X004740/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 02/2026 |
| Description | JIF lab refurb - cryo interferometry - cryostat and lab refurb |
| Amount | £468,808 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2023 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Public engagement grant scheme - A Spencer |
| Amount | £2,492 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Institute of Physics in Scotland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2023 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | Public engagement grant scheme - G Eddolls and A Spencer |
| Amount | £2,160 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Institute of Physics in Scotland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 05/2024 |
| Description | The next generation gravitational wave observatory network |
| Amount | £2,864,799 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/Y004256/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | UofG STFC Impact Acceleration Account SWebster |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 321746/0 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Description | Virtual mobility grant |
| Amount | € 1,500 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | E-COST-GRANT-CA17137-d77d263d |
| Organisation | European Gravitational Observatory |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Italy |
| Start | 07/2002 |
| End | 10/2022 |
| Description | Wee-g: A MEMS gravimeter for precision gravity surveying in Security and the Environment |
| Amount | £346,411 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/X508986/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Title | JIF lab refurb |
| Description | Our interferometry lab is being upgraded to allow for development of cryogenic interferomery on a medium scale. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Upgrades to our intereferometry lab to allow for cryogenic interferometry on a medium scale |
| Title | Beyond GWTC-3: Analysing and verifying new gravitational-wave events from the 4-OGC Catalogue |
| Description | These data contain the parameter estimation results described in "Beyond GWTC-3: Analysing and verifying newgravitational-wave events from the 4-OGC Catalogue" in a format which is designed to be comparable to those used in GWTC catalogue parameter estimation data releases. We have also included the posterior samples for the relevant events from the original [4-OGC](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06878) publication, which are made available under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence. The results are presented in the same PESummary metafile format as the [GWTC-3](https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5546662) data release, however we do not provide mixed samples, as our analysis only contains results produced with the IMRPhenomXPHM waveform approximant. The samples from our analysis are labelled as `C01:IMRPhenomXPHM` within the metafile, in keeping with the convention adopted in GWTC-3.The samples from 4-OGC are labelled as `4-ogc`. In addition, we provide the blueprints required to reproduce the various analyses using the asimov software. These are contained in the YAML format files named OGC######_######.yaml for the various events. Beyond GWTC-3 Samples The samples from the "Beyond GWTC-3" publication are distributed according to the terms of the CC-BY 4.0 license. 4-OGC Samples Note that the 4-OGC samples are redistributed under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. If you use the 4-OGC samples please cite the relevant publication: @article{Nitz:2021zwj, author = {Nitz, Alexander H. and Kumar, Sumit and Wang, Yi-Fan and Kastha, Shilpa and Wu, Shichao and Sch\"afer, Marlin and Dhurkunde, Rahul and Capano, Collin D.}, title = "{4-OGC: Catalog of gravitational waves from compact-binary mergers}", eprint = "2112.06878", archivePrefix = "arXiv", primaryClass = "astro-ph.HE", month = "12", year = "2021" } This research has made use of data or software obtained from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (gwosc.org), a service of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA. This material is based upon work supported by NSF's LIGO Laboratory which is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation, as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. Virgo is funded, through the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), by the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the Dutch Nikhef, with contributions by institutions from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Spain. KAGRA is supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Japan; National Research Foundation (NRF) and Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) in Korea; Academia Sinica (AS) and National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in Taiwan. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is a recent release so is yet to generate measurable impact. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10479523 |
| Title | Data release for "A Unified pastro for Gravitational Waves: Consistently Combining Information from Multiple Search Pipelines" |
| Description | This dataset is used to showed how information from multiple GW pipelines can be combined to calculate a single probability of astrophysical origin - p-astro for GW triggers. This repository contains the joint probability distributions trained using injection (simulated signal) and noise triggers from the PyCBC and gstLAL pipelines from the O3 observing run of LIGO and Virgo. Using these distributions, a unified p-astro can be calculated for the on-source triggers from GWTC-2.1, as we show in the paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data releases have allowed members of the scientific community to repeat the results presented in the associated publications and facilitate potential further research in gravitational waves. |
| URL | https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fzenodo.org%2Frecords%2F8432160&dat... |
| Title | Data release for "Rapid pre-merger localization of binary neutron stars in third generation gravitational wave detectors" |
| Description | We publish skymap files in fits format of the simulation in our work "Rapid pre-merger localization of binary neutron stars in third generation gravitational wave detectors". There are 68000 BNS events, and results of different negative latencies are zipped in different tar files. An example jupyter notebook for using the data is provided. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data releases have allowed members of the scientific community to repeat the results presented in the associated publications and facilitate potential further research in gravitational waves. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/8297805 |
| Title | Gravity Spy Machine Learning Classifications of LIGO Glitches from Observing Runs O1, O2, O3a, and O3b |
| Description | This data set contains all classifications that the Gravity Spy Machine Learning model for LIGO glitches from the first three observing runs (O1, O2 and O3, where O3 is split into O3a and O3b). Gravity Spy classified all noise events identified by the Omicron trigger pipeline in which Omicron identified that the signal-to-noise ratio was above 7.5 and the peak frequency of the noise event was between 10 Hz and 2048 Hz. To classify noise events, Gravity Spy made Omega scans of every glitch consisting of 4 different durations, which helps capture the morphology of noise events that are both short and long in duration. There are 22 classes used for O1 and O2 data (including No_Glitch and None_of_the_Above), while there are two additional classes used to classify O3 data (while None_of_the_Above was removed). For O1 and O2, the glitch classes were: 1080Lines, 1400Ripples, Air_Compressor, Blip, Chirp, Extremely_Loud, Helix, Koi_Fish, Light_Modulation, Low_Frequency_Burst, Low_Frequency_Lines, No_Glitch, None_of_the_Above, Paired_Doves, Power_Line, Repeating_Blips, Scattered_Light, Scratchy, Tomte, Violin_Mode, Wandering_Line, Whistle For O3, the glitch classes were: 1080Lines, 1400Ripples, Air_Compressor, Blip, Blip_Low_Frequency, Chirp, Extremely_Loud, Fast_Scattering, Helix, Koi_Fish, Light_Modulation, Low_Frequency_Burst, Low_Frequency_Lines, No_Glitch, None_of_the_Above, Paired_Doves, Power_Line, Repeating_Blips, Scattered_Light, Scratchy, Tomte, Violin_Mode, Wandering_Line, Whistle The data set is described in Glanzer et al. (2023), which we ask to be cited in any publications using this data release. Example code using the data can be found in this Colab notebook. If you would like to download the Omega scans associated with each glitch, then you can use the gravitational-wave data-analysis tool GWpy. If you would like to use this tool, please install anaconda if you have not already and create a virtual environment using the following command
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| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data releases have allowed members of the scientific community to repeat the results presented in the associated publications and facilitate potential further research in gravitational waves. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/5649211 |
| 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 | ETH Zurich- Institute for quantum electronics |
| Organisation | ETH Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided samples and expertise |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided samples and expertise |
| Impact | Research paper |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| 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 | 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 | Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science 2009 |
| Organisation | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
| Department | National Institutes of Natural Science |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Our contribution was vital in the characterisation of the thermal noise performance of experiments in Japan targeted at observing non classical optical quantum effects. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Stuart Reid in 2009, to fund a 5 week placement at the National Institutes of Natural Science (Tokyo, Japan), with the aim to characterise fused silica mirror suspensions (10 mm length silica fibre, 20 mg mirror) to verify that the level of Brownian thermal noise was sufficiently low for the direct observation of non classical optical quantum effects. Enhanced links with the Japanese and Large-scale Cryogenic Gravitational wave Telescope groups which will stimulate further collaboration on suspension R&D particularly in transferring LCGT expertise to the ET community (e.g. cryogenics, underground facilities). |
| Impact | International Joint Project Award scheme RSE/Scottish Executive Personal Research Fellowship 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 RSE Grants Committee RSE Sectional Committee 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 |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Nessai: nested sampling with artificial intelligence |
| Description | Nessai is nested sampling algorithm for Bayesian Inference that incorporates machine learning. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This software provides an alternative tool for Bayesian Inference and it has been shown to reduce computation time by up to a factor of four compared to standard methods used in the field. |
| URL | https://github.com/mj-will/nessai |
| Title | Rapid determination of LISA sensitivity to extreme mass ratio inspirals - Data release |
| Description | Data release for 'Rapid determination of LISA sensitivity to extreme mass ratio inspirals with machine learning' (C. E. A. Chapman-Bird et. al 2023). |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7148266 |
| Title | glasflow MWilliams |
| Description | Python implementation of normalising flows using PyTorch |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Glasflow is being used for a range of machine learning projects with the Institute of Gravitational Research. |
| URL | https://github.com/uofgravity/glasflow |
| Title | poplar: Accelerating selection bias modelling with machine learning |
| Description | poplar is a lightweight package for performing selection bias modelling with machine learning. It is fully implemented with
pytorch. It is best-suited to problems where the selection process can only be modelled at a high computational cost, and is efficient and accurate even at high dimensionality. It has been applied to the modelling of gravitational wave selection biases, specifically extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) sources observable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) detector. If you find
poplar useful in your work, please cite both Chapman-Bird et al. (2023) and the package doi. Changes in v0.2.0: Fixed a bug that prevented loading of a saved
LinearModel on a machine with no GPU available in the slot that the model was originally saved on. Now, models are always moved to CPU prior to pickling. Fixed a bug when using the
IdentityRescaler that prevented moving of models to GPU Some documentation changes and other minor bug fixes. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7573034 |
| Title | transientlunatic/asimov: asimov 0.5.6 |
| Description | This is a bug-fix release, and doesn't introduce any new features. Breaking changes This release is not believed to introduce any backwards-incompatible changes. Merges ligo!124: Fixes a bug in the disk request for bayeswave_post in bayeswave_pipe. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Asimov has been used extensively within gravitational wave data analysis for the coordination of large parameter estimation analyses, and previous versions were used in the preparation of three gravitational wave catalogues, GWTC-2, GWTC-2.1, and GWTC-3. It has been adopted and developed for the analysis of the data from the fourth observing run of the international gravitational-wave network. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10547146 |
| Title | transientlunatic/asimov: v0.3.2 |
| Description | Automation toolkit for gravitational wave analyses |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Used in the analysis of GW events in the GWTC-2, GWTC-2.1, and GWTC-3.0 catalogue papers. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4024432 |
| Description | Adams -sweeting lecture series SRowan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Adams-Sweeting Lecture series 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.surrey.ac.uk/adams-sweeting-lecture-series/past-lectures |
| Description | Astrosoc - university society talk - RGray 2023 |
| 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 the University of Glasgow Astronomy society (Astrosoc) on gravitational waves and cosmology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | BBarr build a detector workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Outreach within our existing collaboration network to undergraduate students in India. Provided real-researcher experience to students who were tasked to design their own gravitational wave detector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Bayesian podcast - JVeitch & CBerry 2023 |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | John Veitch and Christopher Berry were invited guests on the Learning Bayesian statistics podcast, a podcast aimed at technical practioners in data science, academia and industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://learnbayesstats.com/ |
| Description | CIERA Astronomer evening, Dearborn observatory - CBerry 2023 |
| 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 at Dearborn observatory |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Caldercuilt school visit - KHaughian 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Visited a local primary school and gave a talk to the primary 5, primary 6 and primary 7 class. Answered lots of questions discussing physics, gravitational wave astronomy and careers in physics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Cardonald primary workshops |
| 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 | Workshop at primary school creating gravitational wave artwork. First workshop in May 2023 and second workshop in June 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Coventry city full of noise talk - ASpencer 23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participation in a festival of electronic music, with a science demo as part of the city id Full of Noise festival in the Herbert Art Gallery and museum, Coventry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://theherbert.org/whats-on/1712/the-city-is-full-of-noises |
| Description | DWilliams Talk to Milngavie University of the Third Age |
| 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 to small group of members of general public on developments in GW astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dumfries and Moffatt astronomical society 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 | Outreach talk to Dumfries and Moffatt astronomical societies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Explorathon 2023 |
| 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 | Explorathon at the University of Glasgow science event - Several group members attended to talk to the public about gravitational waves. We took our back drops, leaflets and demonstrations to help aid our explanations and impact |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | G2net Detecting Continuous Gravitational Waves Kaggle Competition MWilliams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online data analysis challenge hosted via the online platform Kaggle. Participants were challenged to detect Continuous Gravitational Waves. This challenge introduced the Kaggle community to gravitational-wave data, specifically continuous gravitational waves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/g2net-detecting-continuous-gravitational-waves |
| Description | Glasgow University Astronomy Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | About 30 students and members of the public attended a talk on Gravitational Wave Astronomy. The talk sparked interesting questions and discussions and some undergraduate students have applied to study for PhD qualifications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Grange Academy Science Fair PMurray May2023 |
| 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 | 4x1 hour workshops on gravitational waves: short introduction talk and then hands on experiments Part of a large science fair with ~5 other partners and school groups visited four of the stations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IOPS 'Girls into physics' events |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Members of the research group attended the IOPS 'girls into physics' events. This consists of a program of events which take place in different geographical areas of Scotland to encourage female high school students to consider choosing physics as they progress further at high school |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IOPS Conversation in the community - Inverness Men's shed - Oct23 GHammond KHaughian |
| 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 | The Communities in Conversation project took place in the Men's shed in Inverness in autumn 2023. It was an Institute of Physics in Scotland (IOPS) and local community led project with facilitators from Belong. Physicists were vbrought together with community groups to share experiences through empathy games and dialogue. There were lively discussions and hands-on experiences about waves, and risk. We addressed issues of making physics more accessible by discussing the connections between the concerns of physicists and everyday life in the community. It was discussed and recognised that physics is not limited to laboratories and textbooks-it is all around us, and its language is intertwined with our everyday conversations in the community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IOPS talk Inveress - KHaughian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Public talk in the evening at Inverness Royal Academy about gravitational waves |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IntoUniversity Maryhill Hub |
| 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 | In collaboration with the IntoUniversity charity, I organised two events aimed at widening participation in university among children with disadvantaged backgrounds. The total reach was around 50 students in primary 6, from the Maryhill area of Glasgow. There were many questions and the students were later taken to visit the university by the IntoUniversity team. The students reported increased interest in studying STEM subjects at university. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Inverclyde Skywatchers talk - CBerry 2023 |
| 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 for public astronomical society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Inverclyde Skywatchers talk - RGray 2023 |
| 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 on recent updates from gravitational waves to an amateur astronomy group, Inverclyde Skywatchers. They were visited by a reporter at the time so it was mentioned in a local newspaper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | KHaughian IOPS Big Bounce Festival 2022 |
| 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 | Worked at the Institute of Physics in Scotlands 'Big Bounce Festival', helped to run events and chat to members of the public about science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHednry outreach lecture 5July2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on "Scotland's Einstein" at Dark Space Planetarium, Kirkcudbright, 5 July 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHednry outreach talk |
| 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 lecture at Dark Space Planetarium, Kirkcudbright, 17 November 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry "2020 Vision": online talk for IOP Scotland Seniors group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Talk for IOP Scotland Seniors Group, on the Physics of 2121. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry "Hubble Trouble" talk for Highland Astronomical Society, 02/03/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online lecture for Highland Astronomical Society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry "Tales from the Darkside": talk for Abriachan Forest Trust, Inverness, 25/02/2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Tales from the Darkside": talk for Abriachan Forest Trust, Inverness, delivered as part of Scottish Year of Storytelling, 25/02/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry "Tomorrow's World": online talk for Institute of Physics Stirling Physics Meeting, 21/06/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Online talk for schoolteachers participating in the Institute of Physics Scotland Stirling Physics Meeting 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Café Scientifique talk on the James Webb Space Telescope, for Café Sci Glasgow programme, 07/02/2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Café Scientifique talk on the James Webb Space Telescope, for Café Sci Glasgow programme, delivered online, 07/02/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Conference outreach talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk for UKSEDS Conference, Edinburgh, 4 February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | MHendry David Elder Lecture, Glasgow Science Centre, on "Einstein's Universe", 24/02/2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | David Elder Lecture, Glasgow Science Centre, on "Einstein's Universe", delivered in-person and livestreamed online, 24/02/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe, 02/03/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Online talk on cosmology and astrophysics content of A-level Physics syllabus for students in Cumbria |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe, 09/03/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Online talk on cosmology and astrophysics content of Higher Physics syllabus for students in East Dunbartonshire Schools |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Global announcement of GWTC-3: third catalog of gravitational-wave events detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA detector network, 7/11/2021 |
| 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 | Coordination, as chair of LIGO Scientific Collaboration Communications and Education Division, of announcement of GWTC-3: third catalog of gravitational-wave events detected by the LIGO Virgo KAGRA detector network, 7/11/2021. Strong global media engagement (e.g. >1M twitter impressions) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ligo.org/detections/O3bcatalog.php |
| Description | MHendry Global announcement of detections of two neutron star black hole mergers, 29/06/2021 |
| 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 | Coordination, as chair of LIGO Scientific Collaboration Communications and Education Division, of announcement of detections of two neutron star black hole mergers, 29/06/2021. Strong global media engagement (e.g. >1M twitter impressions) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ligo.org/detections/NSBH2020.php |
| Description | MHendry Invited lecture at Edinburgh International Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture on "Scotland's Einstein: the life and scientific legacy of James Clerk Maxwell", Edinburgh International Science Festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry LIGO Virgo KAGRA webinar on "Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion Rate", 09/12/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar presenting results from GWTC-3 analysis of constraints on the cosmic expansion rate, presented on Zoom and live-streamed to YouTube, 09/12/2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu8iiJpLiiw |
| Description | MHendry LISA Canada workshop talk, 27/04/2021 |
| 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 | Workshop highlight LISA Consortium Advocacy and Outreach activities to participants in LISA Canada meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Lecture for James Clerk Maxwell Foundation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture in Parton, D&G, for James Clerk Maxwell Foundation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Lecture on "A Brief History of Gravity" for ESA training course, 25/01/20222 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on gravity for ESA postgraduate student training course, delivered online for the ESA Education and Training Programme, 25/01/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Lecture on gravitational-wave astronomy for Bradford Astronomical Society, 15/11/2021 |
| 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 on gravitational-wave astronomy for Bradford Astronomical Society, 15/11/2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Lecture on gravitational-wave astronomy for Dundee Astronomical Society, 26/11/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on gravitational-wave astronomy for Dundee Astronomical Society, 26/11/2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Lorentz Centre workshop, 06/05/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop and talk on education and public outreach opportunities in gravitational-wave astronomy, for early-career researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry MASSOLIT online course on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| 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 | Short lecture course for physics high-school students on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://massolit.io/courses/using-gravitational-waves-to-measure-the-expansion-of-the-universe |
| Description | MHendry Online Café Scientifique 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 | Online Café Scientifique talk for Stockton-on-Tees Café Sci group, 6 December 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Online lecture for Astronomy Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online lecture for Astronomy Scotland Forum, on "Listening to Einstein's Universe", 28 May 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Online talk for University of Guanajuato |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on gravitational-wave astronomy for "Noce de las Estrellas" event organised by University of Guanajuato, Mexico. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Participation in Oman Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition on gravitational-wave astronomy, representing LIGO Virgo and KAGRA collaborations, at Oman Science Festival, 10-15 October 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Pre-University Summer School talk, on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, 02/07/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talk for participants in University of Glasgow pre-university summer school, on gravitational-wave astronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Recording of "Seasonal Sensing" podcast, 1/12/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Recording of "The Science of Santa", podcast for the CENSIS Outreach programme, at Curlers Rest, Glasgow, 1/12/2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MHendry Royal Society of Edinburgh "Curious" programme, 9-27 August 2021 |
| 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 | Coordination, as RSE Programme Convenor, of 3-week programme of online talks, workshops and lectures. As well as overseeing the entire programme, I chaired three of the workshops |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://rse.org.uk/whats-on/event/curious-2021/ |
| Description | MHendry Schools lectures for S3 - S6 Physics students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Activity and Impact Description Series of physics talks for high school students at Alford Academy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 17 June 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Schools outreach 11Mar2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Online talk for East Dunbartonshire Higher and Advanced Higher Physics students, 11 March 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry TV Maxwell broadcast 25Oct2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Extended interview with Sandy McCracken on Border Television's "Border Life" programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.itv.com/news/border/2022-10-25/australian-millionaire-rescues-one-of-scotlands-most-hist... |
| Description | MHendry Talk on "From Einstein to Hubble", for Helensburgh Astronomical Society, 23/02/2022 |
| 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 on "From Einstein to Hubble", for Helensburgh Astronomical Society, delivered online, 23/02/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Talk on "From Einstein to Hubble", for Leeds Astronomical Society, 09/02/2022 |
| 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 "From Einstein to Hubble", for Leeds Astronomical Society, delivered online, 09/02/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry Teacher CPD talk, for Education Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CPD talk for physics teachers, on "Listening to Einstein's Universe", 6 June 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry online talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online talk for Clydesdale Astronomy Society, 26 September 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry online talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online talk for Astronomy Ireland, on "The Physics of Star Wars", 14 November 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MHendry outreach talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on "Listening to Einstein's Universe", for the Institute of Physics, at the University of Hertfordshire, 22 February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | MHendry school lectures in Shetlands for RSE |
| 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 | Led series of RSE schools lectures on "Scotland in Space", delivered by academics from Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MWilliams G2Net Gravitational Wave Detection Kaggle Competition |
| 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 | Data analysis competition hosted by Kaggle in which competitors were challenged to detect gravitational waves from binary black mergers in simulated data using machine learning. Competitors would submit solutions to the website and were automatically ranked based on a score. The competition exposed the broader machine learning community to gravitational-wave data analysis and its challenges. The three winning teams won a cash prize. The winning solutions may inform future development of machine learning algorithms for gravitational-wave data analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.kaggle.com/c/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/overview |
| Description | Pint of Science 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Pint of Science festival organises talks at pubs each year. In 2022, John Veitch and Ross Johnston gave talks on their research to around 50 members of the public (18+). There were many lively questions and discussions and we engaged with other speakers from other areas of science. Some of the audience have attending subsequent public talks, and some students in attendance have expressed interest in studying for PhDs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/events/glasgow |
| Description | Satellite7 - JScott |
| 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 given at Satellite 7, a science fiction convention held in Glasgow. There were a few follow up questions afterwards, and an invitation to repeat the talk for the World Science Fiction Convention being held in Glasgow in August 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://seven.satellitex.org.uk/ |
| Description | Science @ Stewarton - IOPS public talk - Karl Toland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at an IoP event called "Science @ Stewarton" at Stewarton Academy. Talk focused on the link between GW research and MEMS gravimetry, as well as showcasing avenues a physics degree can take people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Sir Robert Wilson lecture 2023 SRowan |
| 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 talk at University College London about gravitational waves research from a personal perspective |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/astrophysics/news/2023/sep/sir-robert-wilson-lecture-2023 |
| Description | Strathclyde physics society talk - CBerry 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk for physics society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Swimming - Arlington - GEddolls ASpencer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Science/music event with outreach talk on gravitational waves and musical event in swimming pool with media coverage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://arlingtonbaths.co.uk/events/229/swimming-with-gravitational-waves |
| Description | Swimming Mosely Rd - A Spencer July 23 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Science/music event with outreach talk on gravitational waves and musical event in swimming pool with media coverage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://moseleyroadbaths.org.uk/event/monthly-music-takeovers-swimming-with-gravitational-waves/ |
| Description | Techfest - CBerry 2023 |
| 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 at science festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Tyndall lecture series 2024 MHendry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Tyndall lecture series - 8 lectures given at different locations in Ireland. Prof Martin Hendry talked about gravitational wave detections and what they tell us about the universe |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.ucc.ie/en/physics/outreach/tyndalllectureforschools/ |
| Description | University of Glasgow astronomy society - CBerry 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk for astronomical society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |