Distribution of triggers in a search for inspirals
It seems that I have been getting new papers out faster than I could blog about them, so let me catch up with this post. The first is a LIGO paper, the second may be my last LISA paper for a while, and the third is about the statistical theory of extracting information from gravitational-wave signals. All three will be published in 2013, and all three are... good stuff.
2013/01/11
ECM at JPL
An excerpt from the Sep 24, 2012 performance of Andrea Centazzo and Michele's "Einstein's Cosmic Messengers", presented at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to my fellow NASA scientists and engineers. The video includes my introduction and one of the music segments. See on video page.
2012/09/24
Einstein in 1921
I wanted to celebrate my birthday by posting a new preprint on the arXiv, but JPL wanted to make sure first that I wasn't giving away any big secrets (really), so I am a few days late. Nevertheless, I am happy that it's out now, and I think that it carries a useful result. Let me see if I can tell you briefly about it in this blog post. (That would be a nice tradition to start, wouldn't it?)
2012/07/20
Here's how I appear on the new homepage...
Today marks the debut of the new version of vallis.org. I loved the old design of connected boxes with a yellow background, but it was time for new. Most of the old content should have survived through the transition at the same URL. Please let me know if you're missing anything, or if anything looks strange.
The new website is carefully handcoded in HTML5/CSS, on the basis of Twitter Bootstrap, and it is generated by a custom static-site engine using Jinja2 templates. jQuery provides a little interactivity.
2012/05/17
Not quite, but I submitted three papers in January: a methods paper on computing the sensitivity of space based detectors (with Chad Galley), a long Astrophys. J. paper on GWs from Galactic binaries (with Samaya Nissanke, Tom Prince, and Gijs Nelemans), and a compressed version of the eLISA science case (with a bunch of other people, but the paper is my compilation and my lovechild). Now the question is how to keep this up...
2012/01/31
Michele lecturing at PI
Here's the video and slides of two seminars that I gave on my... Canadian tour of PI and CITA: "How Good is good enough for Gravitational-wave Templates?" (Nov 28, also a local mirror) and "Space-based gravitational-wave astronomy in the next decade, with a coda of statistics" (Dec 1).
2011/12/01
ECM LIVE
The Oct 22 performance of Einstein's Cosmic Messengers was shot by rising film-makers Roberto Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi, and a live DVD is now available. Here's a short documentary feature about gravitational waves that I produced and that includes interviews with Andrea, with LIGO Executive Director Jay Marx, and with me. You may also be interested in the 30-min panel discussion that followed the concert, featuring K C Cole, Elena Pierpaoli, Andrea, and me. See all in my video page.
2011/01/06
The elasticity of spacetime
My contribution on gravitational waves is published in the Pars Foundation's Findings on Elasticity, which features "the work of 50 artists and scientists who shape the way we look at the world today [...] their findings range from the quirky, humorous and beautiful to the mind-bogglingly complex and disturbing."
2010/04/26
Welcome Luca!
Introducing Luca Marco Vallisneri, our firstborn. 7 lbs 9 oz (3.45 kg), 19 in (48 cm), Apgar 9-9, and a sweet guy altogether. Who could have asked for more? (Anche su PramzanBlog...)
2010/01/29
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