Earth's Magnetic Field

Daniel Lathrop talks to BBC about his experiments to model the Earth's magnetic field (begins at 8:18).

Physics Alum Wins GWIC Thesis Prize

Physics alum Leo Singer was awarded the 2014 GWIC Thesis Prize, which recognizes outstanding Ph.D. theses in the general area of gravitational waves.

Singer, who received his B.S., in physics, from UMD, was selected for his Ph.D. thesis “The needle in the 100 deg2 haystack: The hunt for binary neutron star mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory.” The thesis addresses the most challenging problem of joint observation of BNS coalescence events by gravitational wave and electromagnetic detectors.

Singer received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2014.

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