June 14, 2017

Newsmaker: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration was awarded the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research for the detection of gravitational waves. Researchers in RIT's Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation contributed to the scientific breakthrough announced in 2016. The award was announced on June 14 and will be presented in the fall in Oviedo in Asturias, Spain, to the founding members of the collaboration. RIT members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration include John Bero, Hans-Peter Bischof, Manuela Campanelli, James Healy, Brennan Ireland, Jacob Lange, Carlos Lousto, Rupal Mittal, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Monica Rizzo, Nicole Rosato, John Whelan, Andrew Williamson, Jared Wofford, Daniel Wysocki, Yuanhao Zhang and Yosef Zlochower.