Matters of Gravity: The Newsletter of the Division of Gravitational Physics of the American Physical Society. Number 52. December 2018
David Garfinkle
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This newsletter provides updates and insights on recent developments in gravitational physics, including conference reports and community news, serving as a comprehensive resource for researchers in the field.
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Highlights from the APS April Meeting on gravitational physics
Recent advancements and research trends in gravity studies
Community news and upcoming events in gravitational physics
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**MATTERS OF GRAVITY
**The newsletter of the Division of Gravitational Physics of the American Physical Society
Number 52 December 2018
Contents
Editor
David Garfinkle
Department of Physics Oakland University Rochester, MI 48309
Phone: (248) 370-3411
Internet: garfinkl-at-oakland.edu
WWW: http://www.oakland.edu/physics/Faculty/david-garfinkle
Associate Editor
Greg Comer
Department of Physics and Center for Fluids at All Scales,
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63103
Phone: (314) 977-8432
Internet: comergl-at-slu.edu
WWW: http://www.slu.edu/arts-and-sciences/physics/faculty/comer-greg.php
ISSN: 1527-3431
DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in the articles of this newsletter represent the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of APS. The articles in this newsletter are not peer reviewed.
Editorial
The next newsletter is due June 2019. Issues 28-52 are available on the web at https://files.oakland.edu/users/garfinkl/web/mog/ All issues before number 28 are available at http://www.phys.lsu.edu/mog
Any ideas for topics that should be covered by the newsletter should be emailed to me, or Greg Comer, or the relevant correspondent. Any comments/questions/complaints about the newsletter should be emailed to me.
A hardcopy of the newsletter is distributed free of charge to the members of the APS Division of Gravitational Physics upon request (the default distribution form is via the web) to the secretary of the Division. It is considered a lack of etiquette to ask me to mail you hard copies of the newsletter unless you have exhausted all your resources to get your copy otherwise.
David Garfinkle
Correspondents of Matters of Gravity
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Daniel Holz: Relativistic Astrophysics,
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Bei-Lok Hu: Quantum Cosmology and Related Topics
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Veronika Hubeny: String Theory
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Pedro Marronetti: News from NSF
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Luis Lehner: Numerical Relativity
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Jim Isenberg: Mathematical Relativity
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Katherine Freese: Cosmology
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Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity
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Cliff Will: Confrontation of Theory with Experiment
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Peter Bender: Space Experiments
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Jens Gundlach: Laboratory Experiments
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Warren Johnson: Resonant Mass Gravitational Wave Detectors
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David Shoemaker: LIGO
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Stan Whitcomb: Gravitational Wave detection
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Peter Saulson and Jorge Pullin: former editors, correspondents at large.
Division of Gravitational Physics (DGRAV) Authorities
Chair: Emanuele Berti; Chair-Elect: Gary Horowitz; Vice-Chair: Nicolas Yunes. Secretary-Treasurer: Geoffrey Lovelace; Past Chair: Peter Shawhan; Councilor: Beverly Berger Members-at-large: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Leo Stein, Lisa Barsotti, Theodore Jacobson, Michael Lam, Jess McIver. Student Members: Cody Messick, Belinda Cheeseboro.
we hear that …
David Garfinkle, Oakland University garfinkl-at-oakland.edu
Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Abhay Ashtekar has been awarded the APS Einstein Prize.
Stanley Whitcomb has been awarded the APS Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science.
Katherine Freese has been awarded the APS Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize.
Carlos Lousto has been awarded the APS Edward A. Bouchet Award.
Rana Adhikari, Lisa Barsotti, Henriette Elvang, Stephen Fulling, Salman Habib, Lawrence Kidder, Derek Kimball, Mikhail Medvedev, Ingrid Stairs, Andrew Strominger, and Ignacio Taboada have been elected APS Fellows.
Hearty Congratulations!
April APS meeting
David Garfinkle, Oakland University garfinkl-at-oakland.edu
We have a very exciting DGRAV related program at the upcoming APS meeting April 13-16 in Denver, Colorado. Our Chair-elect, Gary Horowitz, did an excellent job of putting together this program.
The DGRAV sponsored invited sessions are
Looking at Supermassive Black Holes* *
(co-sponsored with DAP)
Shep Doeleman, Event Horizon Telescope
Avery Broderick, Event Horizon Telescope: Theoretical Background and Interpretation
Stefan Gillessen, Latest News from the Galactic Center
Quantum Aspects of Gravitation* *
Eva Silverstein, dS/dS and T bar T
Daniel Jafferis, Traversable Wormholes
Daniel Carney, Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity
Einstein Prize Talk and Developments in Gravitational Theory* *
Abhay Ashtekar, Some Unforseen Aspects of Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves
Eanna Flanagan, Gravitational Backreaction on Cosmic Strings
Mihalis Dafermos, The Interior Structure of Dynamic Vacuum Black Holes Without Symmetry
**Isaacson Award Talk and Ground Based Gravitational Wave Astronomy
**Stanley Whitcomb, Making LIGO Possible: a Technical History
Katerina Chatziioannou, The Current State of Gravitational Wave Astronomy with LIGO and Virgo
Evan Hall, The Next Generation of Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Space Based Gravitational Wave Astronomy* *
*Emanuele Berti, Low Frequency Gravitational Waves from Massive Black Holes: Implications for Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics *
Maura McLaughlin, Pulsar Timing Arrays: Observations, Analysis, and Insights into Galaxy Growth and Evolution
Thomas Kupfer, Galactic LISA Sources and their Potential for Multi-messenger and Multi-wavelength Studies
Progress in Theoretical Gravitational Wave Astronomy* *
Oliver Tattersall, Signatures of Modified Gravity in Black Hole Quasi-Normal Modes
Felix Julie, Two-body Problem in Modified Gravities and EOB Theory
Tanja Hinderer, Progress in Theoretical Gravitational-Wave Astronomy of Neutron Star Binaries
Tests of General Relativity* *
Frank Eisenhauer, General Relativistic Effects in Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center Black Hole
Kent Yagi, Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity: Present and Future
Scott Ransom, Recent and Future Tests of GR using Pulsar Systems
Edward Bouchet Award Talk and Progress in Numerical Simulations of Compact Binaries* *
(co-sponsored with DCOMP)
Carlos Lousto, Insight on Gravitational Waves and Astrophysics from Simulations of Binary Black Holes
David Radice, Numerical Relativity Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers
Vasileios Paschalidis, Lessons and Future Prospects from the Interplay of Multimessenger Astronomy and Computational Gravity
NICER and its Implications* *
(co-sponsored with DAP)
Deepto Chakrabarty, An Overview of NICER Observations of Neutron Stars and Black Holes
Tod Strohmayer, NICER Probes of Neutron Stars and Dense Matter
Hector Okada-Da Silva, Probing Extreme Gravity with NICER
Detection and Modeling of Binary Neutron Star Collisions* *
(co-sponsored with DNP)
Samaya Nissanke, LIGO Measurements of BNS Mergers
Maria Drout, Electromagnetic Follow-up to BNS Mergers
Charles Horowitz, Neutron Star Mergers: a Theoretical View
Centennial of the Eddington Eclipse Expedition* *
(co-sponsored withe FHP)
Daniel Kennefick, No Shadow of Doubt: Eddington, Einstein, and the 1919 Eclipse
Jeffrey Crelinsten, Einstein’s Jury: the Race to Test Relativity
Precision Searches for New Long Range Forces, from Quantum Sensors to Spacecraft* *
(co-sponsored with GPMFC)
Joel Berge, MICROSCOPE Mission: First Constraints on the Violation of the Weak Equivalence Principle by a Light Scalar Dilaton
Xing Rong, Searching for an Exotic Spin-dependent Interaction with a Single Electron Spin Quantum Sensor
Kent Irwin, Fundamental Limits of Electromagnetic Axion and Hidden Photon Dark Matter Searches