- This week the #NobelPrize in Physics was awarded to Weiss, Thorne & Barish for their efforts towards the detection of #GravitationalWaves https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/915152750887014400 …
- Some have said it's a shame that i) the @LIGO–@ego_virgo Collaboration wasn't acknowledged & ii) it's another year with no female laureates
- I can't fix that, but as there are lots of great women in @LIGO & @ego_virgo doing #GravitationalWave science, here are some #FF suggestions
- I'm sure I've missed some people too. Here's my list of #GravitaitonalWave experts https://twitter.com/cplberry/lists/gw-experts/members … Suggestions welcome
- If you're bored of binary black holes, @enigmaniac is an expert on neutron stars, which make much messier collisions
- @enigmaniac Neutron star mergers might be where lots of heavier elements are made, such as gold (as used to make Nobel Prize medals)
- We might be able to figure out what neutron stars are made of from #GravitationalWaves, I like @enigmaniac's paper https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3258
- If you're more interested in experimentation, @annacgreen is one our PhD students studying laser optics for @LIGO pic.twitter.com/18PXVw3Qje
- @annacgreen is studying parametric instabilities, one of the main obstacles to increasing laser power and improving detector sensitivity
- @annacgreen has just had her first first-author paper published https://twitter.com/annacgreen/status/914828570983313408 …
- Another experimentalist is @livingligo who has spent a lot of time at @LIGOLA. She is also a veteran blogger http://www.livingligo.org/
- I'd highly recommend checking out @livingligo's TED-Ed animation https://twitter.com/livingligo/status/915276722769100800 … #GraviationalWaves
- For data analysis, @millhorse is an expert on searches for Burst sources: signals we don't have models for
- In particular @millhorse is an expert on BayesWave (which I think is the most cunning Burst code) https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08752
- If you've seen the unmodelled reconstructions of our binary black hole mergers: they are from BayesWave (it's cool they match the templates) pic.twitter.com/FeVayjkwJ0
- An expert on many things, and in particular electromagnetic follow-up of #GravitationalWaves is @samayanissanke
- @samayanissanke is a member of @ego_virgo, and the addition of the third detector will hopefully make her quest to find a counterpart easier
- @samayanissanke works mostly on counterparts to binary mergers. Another source for electromagnetic and gravitational waves are supernova
- @JadePowell12 works on searching for supernova signals, which are quite complicated bursts https://www.universetoday.com/137068/gravitational-waves-will-let-us-see-inside-stars-supernovae-happen/ …
- Telling Burst signals from blips of detector noise is difficult. @JadePowell12 also works on classifying glitches https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01299
- Check out @GravitySpyZoo https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/gravity-spy … if you'd like to learn more about glitches (you might help @JadePowell12 out in the future)
ZooniverseThe Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.- @DeirdreShoe is a numerical relativist: she works on solving Einstein's equations numerically to calculate waveforms
- @DeirdreShoe and I worked together on reviewing @LIGO's search for intermediate mass black holes. She took the lead on the Burst analysis pic.twitter.com/dohKl5rJ4m
- @BKB_gravity has done more things than I know over her career. Currently, she is active in Detector Characterisation https://cqgplus.com/2016/06/06/how-do-we-know-ligo-detected-gravitational-waves/ …
- @BKB_gravity is also one of the hard-working reviewers for the LIGO Open Science Center https://losc.ligo.org/about/ for our data releases
- The @iamgw150914 paper ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03837 ) is one of the best written papers I've ever read, @AstonePia was on the paper writing team
- This is outside of @AstonePia's usual area of searching for continuous waves from spinning neutron stars, e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00660
- @cosmojellyfish is an experimentalist working on tech for the next generation of #GravitaitonalWave detectors
- Recently @cosmojellyfish worked on the Holometer, a smaller scaler interferometer https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08503 (Recognise the final author here?)
- @cosmojellyfish I'm afraid I don't understand enough about the Holometer to tell you more. I guess you'll have to follow @cosmojellyfish for that!
- @Gmv2_c4r is an experimentalist just starting her PhD, but she is a #GravitaionalWave veteran
- You might've seen @Gmv2_c4r's comics in the LIGO Magazine http://www.ligo.org/magazine/ Here's a recollection of 14/09/15 http://antimatterwebcomics.com/comic/the-night-of-sept-14th/ …
- @icecreambond is an experimentalist working on control systems. @LIGO instruments are ridiculously sensitive: keeping them stable is hard
- At design sensitivity, @LIGO interferometers have 100 kW of laser power in their arms. @icecreambond is looking at the next generation too
- One of the @LIGO spokespersons is @LauraCadonati. She takes special responsibility for data analysis. I've no idea how she copes with email
- Our previous Spokesperson was @gonzalez18, she saw us through the madness of the first detection. pic.twitter.com/6b12uUbQ0M
- I'm perpetually amazed by @gonzalez18's multitasking. I exchanged emails with her while she was talking on a telecon on a different subject
- When not organising 1000+ bickering scientists, @gonzalez18 is an experimentalist. Unfortunately, she's a bit too busy to tweet much
- @gonzalez18 @gonzalez18 has given a few TED talks, here is one in Spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73QS1CCPV48 … We are a global collaboration after all
- @SerenaViarago is a PhD student in my group. She's been working on speeding up our parameter estimation analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02062 pic.twitter.com/XURJ3NHJ8F
- More recently @SerenaViarago has been working on electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave signals https://twitter.com/cplberry/status/870558231000735746 …
- Finally, Hannah Middleton who isn't on Twitter, but I know checks @UoBobservatory, so maybe if enough people like this we can convince her… pic.twitter.com/TULO43PXNV
- Hannah & I have worked together on lots of parameter estimation projects, but she is also an expert on pulsar timing http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/gwgroup/science.php#150700992 …
- This is a subsample of some of the women in @LIGO and @ego_virgo on Twitter, there are many more doing awesome things!
- & there are women researching #GravitationalWaves outside of @LIGO/@ego_virgo like @Dr_CMingarelli @spacetimekatie @GravityKelly @_harpolea
- @ElenaCuoco @ElenaCuoco, like @JadePowell12, has been working on classifying glitches with machine learning. As cunning as a fox who was Prof of Cunning
- @ElenaCuoco also coordinates the @grawitons pan-European training network (which includes @UoBIGWaves' @SerenaViarago)
- Another omission from my thread was @ScotSciChief—I'm not sure if the account sticks with the job of advising the Scottish government
- When not saving Scotland, @ScotSciChief is an experimentalist and is particularly interested in finding the best materials to make detectors
- New to @LIGO, but not gravitational waves, is @Emmanigma. She's interested in neutron stars and does cool #scicomm https://twitter.com/LIGO/status/916766370746060802 …
- #FF New additions to my #GravitationalWaves list ( https://twitter.com/cplberry/lists/gw-experts/members …): @KarelleSiellez and @coolgwhunter
- @KarelleSiellez works on joint gravitational wave & gamma-ray burst detection (a timely topic). She's also artistic https://twitter.com/LIGO/status/920711076563468294 …
- @coolgwhunter works on stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds ( http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GW170817Stochastic/index.php …), particularly from a population of binaries
- This year’s #NobelPrize diplomas have been handed out today to Physics laureates Rainer Weiss (diploma below), Kip Thorne and Barry Barish. pic.twitter.com/lP6xXs0BVN
