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, O3, started on 1st April 2019 with a planned run of 1 calendar year duration during which time the Japanese KAGRA instrument is expected to
join 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. 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 12 years ago. Key ingredients of several searches (accurate waveforms models, geometric formulation of data analysis to optimise searches, algorithms to search for generic bursts, Bayesian search and inference techniques) were developed at Cardiff and Glasgow.
We propose a programme that exploits data from aLIGO and AdV, building on our analysis of data from the most recent LIGO/Virgo science runs and from GEO600 while the advanced detectors were under construction.
In particular, we will refine waveform models and carry out deep and wide parameter space searches for coalescing binaries, GW emitted in coincidence with GRBs and supernovae, and continuous signals from rotating 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, O3, started on 1st April 2019 with a planned run of 1 calendar year duration during which time the Japanese KAGRA instrument is expected to
join 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. 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 12 years ago. Key ingredients of several searches (accurate waveforms models, geometric formulation of data analysis to optimise searches, algorithms to search for generic bursts, Bayesian search and inference techniques) were developed at Cardiff and Glasgow.
We propose a programme that exploits data from aLIGO and AdV, building on our analysis of data from the most recent LIGO/Virgo science runs and from GEO600 while the advanced detectors were under construction.
In particular, we will refine waveform models and carry out deep and wide parameter space searches for coalescing binaries, GW emitted in coincidence with GRBs and supernovae, and continuous signals from rotating 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)
- European Gravitational Observatory (Collaboration)
- GEO collaboration (Collaboration)
- California Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Australian Research Council (Collaboration)
- ETH Zurich (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Collaboration)
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration (Collaboration)
- Penn State University (Collaboration)
- Syracuse University (Collaboration)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Maastricht University (UM) (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef (Collaboration)
- INFN Sezione di Perugia (Collaboration)
- University Libre Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles ULB) (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- California State University, Fullerton (Collaboration)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- INFN Sezione di Pisa (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
(2021)
Search for Lensing Signatures in the Gravitational-Wave Observations from the First Half of LIGO-Virgo's Third Observing Run
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott R
(2020)
GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Abbott R
(2022)
Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data
in Physical Review D
Abbott R
(2021)
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott R
(2021)
Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's third observing run
in Physical Review D
Description | We refined waveform models and carried out deep and wide parameter space searches for coalescing binaries, GW emitted in coincidence with GRBs and supernovae, and continuous signals from rotating neutron stars. We also carried out 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 |
Exploitation Route | Gravitational wave data analaysis and detector development will be used and adopted by the gravitational wave community |
Sectors | Other |
Description | GWoan STFC UK SKA oversight committee |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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) - MPitkin |
Organisation | Australian Research Council |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The partnership funded a two week visit to the OzGrav institutions in Melbourne, Australia, for Dr Matthew Pitkin. During the visit he presented seminars at each institution, participated in and chaired workshop sessions, and developed collaborative projects in gravitational-wave astronomy. |
Collaborator Contribution | The partner contributed funds for travel and accommodation via the OzGrav International Visitor Funding Program. |
Impact | The main outcome is the development of software (bibly https://lscsoft.docs.ligo.org/bilby/index.html) and an associated paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02042) that will become the main package for source parameter estimation for gravitational-wave signals within the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. |
Start Year | 2018 |
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 | mj-will/nessai: Release to trigger Zenodo |
Description | See changelog for details. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Too early to assess, but intended application in GW astronomy |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4550694 |
Title | transientlunatic/asimov: 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 | 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 |