You cannot possibly have missed that gravitational waves have recently been discovered by the LIGO-VIRGO scientific collaborations. But in case you missed the talk at CERN explaining it, you can watch it here. See also “A dream comes true” from the last issue of LC NewsLine, a personal view of the discovery by Barry Barish.
A dream comes true
More than a decade before becoming Director of the newly forming Global Design Effort (GDE) for the ILC in 2005, I took on the task of directing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project. Like the ILC, LIGO was an incredibly challenging project with potentially a fantastic scientific payoff. Of course, we had our critics […]
Congratulations to Michel Davier
I am especially pleased today to pay tribute to Michel Davier, a long-time colleague, who has recently been awarded the André Lagarrigue Prize for 2010. Although Michel and I have not been direct collaborators, our research careers have paralleled each other to a large extent. Consequently, I am very familiar with his many important contributions […]