NSF funds $14.5 million physics center, WVU professor named co-director
http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2015/03/30/nsf-funds-14-5-million-physics-center-wvu-professor-named-co-director
The National Science Foundation has awarded the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves $14.5 million over a five-year period to create and operate a Physics Frontiers Center aimed at using radio timing observations of pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope and Arecibo Observatory to detect and study low-frequency gravitational waves.
West Virginia University, will serve as co-director; Xavier Siemens, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the principal investigator and was named director of the center.
"PFCs are awarded to teams working to address the most significant questions regarding the fundamental nature of our universe and the underlying physics," said research. "The universities in this collaboration join a very select group of institutions who work at the forefront of physics and astronomy."
"This award recognizes the unique expertise WVU faculty and students bring to exploring one of the most challenging questions in modern astrophysics."
The NSF currently supports 10 other PFCs, which range in research areas from theoretical biological physics and the physics of living cells to quantum information and nuclear astrophysics at institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Colorado and the University of Maryland.
The NANOGrav PFC will also provide funding for 23 senior personnel, six postdoctoral researchers, 10 graduate students and 25 undergraduate students distributed across 11 institutions.
At WVU, McLaughlin; Sean McWilliams, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, are members of NANOGrav and will contribute to NANOGrav PFC activities.
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http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2015/03/30/nsf-funds-14-5-million-physics-center-wvu-professor-named-co-director
The National Science Foundation has awarded the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves $14.5 million over a five-year period to create and operate a Physics Frontiers Center aimed at using radio timing observations of pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope and Arecibo Observatory to detect and study low-frequency gravitational waves.
West Virginia University, will serve as co-director; Xavier Siemens, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the principal investigator and was named director of the center.
"PFCs are awarded to teams working to address the most significant questions regarding the fundamental nature of our universe and the underlying physics," said research. "The universities in this collaboration join a very select group of institutions who work at the forefront of physics and astronomy."
"This award recognizes the unique expertise WVU faculty and students bring to exploring one of the most challenging questions in modern astrophysics."
The NSF currently supports 10 other PFCs, which range in research areas from theoretical biological physics and the physics of living cells to quantum information and nuclear astrophysics at institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Colorado and the University of Maryland.
The NANOGrav PFC will also provide funding for 23 senior personnel, six postdoctoral researchers, 10 graduate students and 25 undergraduate students distributed across 11 institutions.
At WVU, McLaughlin; Sean McWilliams, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, are members of NANOGrav and will contribute to NANOGrav PFC activities.
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