THE PROBLEM OF DUAL CAREER RELATIONSHIPS IN ACADEMIA One of the more difficult things about being a physicist in a relationship is that yo...

LISA NEWS... The LISA Symposium was in Paris this week and the result of this meeting was a strengthening of the efforts to put a gravita...

Many times, when we scientists answer this question, we say "ripples on space-time".  It wasn't until I was in grad school tha...

Another question I am often asked at LIGO is why we are looking for gravitational waves from the most violent, energetic events in the Unive...

LISA/NGO Update On May 2 nd , the ESA officially decided to accept their Science Programme Committee's recommendation to choose the JU...

In my last post, I mentioned that I recently visited Ole Miss to give a colloquium on outreach for their physics department.  Later that n...

LISA... (The video below is large [~44 MB] and dated, but gives good background on the motivation and specifics of a space-based gravitat...