Success and visitors to the General Relativity Group
12 Jan 2009 - 16:47:56 in Achievement
- Matt Visser has won a FQXi mini grant [US$10,000] to bring overseas researchers to New Zealand to give technical seminars. For more details see here.
- Petarpa Boonserm and Matt Visser have published article that has now been selected for inclusion in "IOP Select". See iop.org and more specifically here for more details. This article, "Transmission probabilities and the Miller–Good transformation" was published in the Journal of Physics: Mathematical and Theoretical 42 No 4 (30 January 2009) 045301.
- Three visitors coming to the general relativity group:
- Dr Thomas Sotiriou, postdoc at the University of Maryland. (28 Jan to 19 Feb)
- Dr Silke Weinfurtner, postdoc at the University of British Columbia. (28 Jan to 19 Feb)
- Gil Jannes, graduate student at the Astrophysics Institute of Andalusia, Granada, Spain (18 Feb to 26 Mar)