| Your personal background. |
I am an assistant professor of physics at Penn State and a member of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics and the LIGO Science Collaboration. I work on the theory of gravitational-wave sources (mainly neutron stars) and on the theory and implementation of data analysis, including the guts of Einstein@Home. I also answer science questions here.
Before I came to Penn State I was a postdoc with Bruce Allen in Milwaukee, and before that at the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany. I was a grad student at Caltech with Kip Thorne, back in the days when we were all looking ahead to figure out how LIGO data analysis would work. I was an undergrad at Sonoma State University in California, where I did a little radio and infrared astronomy. |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home |
| I\\'ve been planning for this for the last decade. I\\'m glad to see so many people willing to volunteer spare CPU cycles. This is a big job, and we need all the help we can get. |
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