Gravitational waves December 2017 Gravitational wave group welcomes

Gravitational waves – December 2017

Gravitational wave group welcomes Tenure staff: Bas Swinkels Sarah Caudill Matteo Tacca Gideon Koekoek Post. Doc: Anuradha Samajdar Master students: Michiel Rollier & Ankan Sur Professor: Chris van den Broeck @ Ru. G

Highlight: Jo very active @ Virgo site! Virgo: joined O 2 its 1 st BBH merger 1 st BNS merger aggressive upgrades and I can add from personal experience: better STAC meetings

Two important activities data analysis ‘war’ room - Chris’ office while these species complicate our life preparing for the future instrument - Limburg

Synergies: R&D Instrumentation Niels van Bakel Martin van Beuzekom Boris Boom photodiodes phasecameras accelerometers and more Analysis noise hunting and more Facilities shared lab space office space

Synergies: ALICE Raimond Snellings Paul Kuijer Vacancy for a shared GW-ALICE Ph. D position

Synergies: PDP Rob Walet: Ph. D in MT Vincent van Beveren: Ph. D in CT Jeff Templon David Groep Sarah Caudill will provide link to Virgo/LIGO

Synergies: Theory Early on: Jan-Willem van Holten Upward potential: @ Nikhef beyond Nikhef astronomy community

Gravitational Waves Alessandro Bertolini Sarah Caudill Maria Bader Detecting gravitational waves at VIRGO Searching for and extracting science from gravitational wave signals Seismic studies for the Einstein Telescope site selection