• Gabriela Gonzalez has been appointed Chair of the committee that will select the winner of the GWIC thesis prize. GWIC is the Gravitational Wave International Committee, a sub-committee of the IUPAP, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. The committee selects the winner based on the best thesis in gravitational wave research worldwide.

• Joel Tohline receives honor from world's largest general scientific society. He has been awarded the distinction of being named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

• Edward Seidel has been elected as fellow of the American Physical Society by the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP).
  - - posted November 28, 2007

• Luis Lehner has been elected to the "40 under 40" by the Baton Rouge Business Report.
  - - posted November 27, 2007

• Gabriela Gonzalez has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of "her experimental contributions to the field of gravitational wave detection, her leadership in the analysis of LIGO data for gravitational wave signals, and for her skill in communicating the excitement of physics to students and the public."
  - - posted November 27, 2007

• Joel Tohline has been invited to serve a 3-year term on the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Math & Physical Sciences Advisory Committee (MPSAC). The MPSAC is the only official advisory body to the Divisions within the Math and Physical Sciences Directorate, and the Directorate relies on the AC for both high level advice and connection to the community. More information on the MPSAC can be found here.
  - - posted October 9, 2007

• Luis Lehner has been appointed to the Selection Committee of the Nicholas Metropolis Prize of the American Physical Society. The prize is awarded every year for the best dissertation in computational physics. Lehner was the first recipient of the prize in 1999.

• The conference Profs. Rodolfo Gambini (University of the Republic, Uruguay) and Jorge Pullin are organizing in Uruguay in October has been decleared "of national interest" by the government in Uruguay. Signatures at the bottom of the document are those of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Education, and the President of the Republic.
  - - posted September 11, 2007

• Luis Lehner will be one of the participants in the invitation-only workshop "Enabling Science Discoveries through Visual Exploration", organized by the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. on September 27-28, 2007.
  - - posted September 10, 2007

• Two papers by Physics and Astronomy Professors Manuel Tiglio and Peter Diener with Research Associate, Eric Schnetter, and by former LSU graduate student and PhD graduate Gioel Calabrese (currently in England) have been chosen among the highlights of 2006/2007 by the Editorial Board of the Journal "Classical and Quantum Gravity", published by the Institute of Physics of the UK -
  (http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.high0607/0264-9381). Papers published by members of the LSU Relativity Group have made the highlights list for the last six years.

• Former LSU Physics undergraduate, Barrett Deris has received an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Deris is currently a graduate student at Univ. of California-San Diego.

• LSU Physics & Astronomy graduate student, Enrique Pazos, won the prize for the best graduate student presentation at the 3rd Gulf Coast Gravity Conference held at University of Alabama-Huntsville.

• The SPIRES bibliographical service at Stanford University has compiled a list of the most cited articles of all time to appear in the GR-QC preprint repository. This repository contains almost all papers in gravitation starting in 1992. Our paper with Dr. Rodolfo Gambini, "Nonstandard Optics in Quantum Space-time", cited 240 times, is the 21st most cited paper ever in the repository.
  - - posted February 2, 2007

• Jorge Pullin has been elected corresponding member of the National Academy of Science of Argentina.

• Gerard Milburn, Adjunct Professor of Physics at LSU was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

• The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the IEEE-Computer Society have appointed Professor Joel Tohline as an editor of the Visualizations department for their technical magazine Computing in Science and Engineering. The constituent readerships that CiSE serves include scientists and engineers from many disciplines as well as applied mathematicians and computer professionals, whose collaboration drives the cutting edge of computational science and education.
  - - posted November 20, 2006

• Professor Jorge Pullin was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  - - posted November 16, 2006

• Professor Jorge Pullin has been elected as a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
  - - posted October 19, 2006

• Prof. Ed Seidel of the Computer Science Department and the Department of Physics and CCT has recently won the 2006 Sidney Fernbach Award. Established in 1992 in memory of Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers in the development and application of high performance computers for the solution of large computational problems.
  - - posted October 9, 2006

• The paper "Multi-block simulations in general relativity: high-order discretizations, numerical stability and applications" by Luis Lehner, Manuel Tiglio, and Oscar Reula was highlighted by the editorial board of the journal "Classical and Quantum Gravity".
  - - posted September 18, 2006

• Jorge Pullin has been appointed to the Basilis Xanthopoulos Prize selection committee. This prestigious international prize is awarded every three years to a physicist under the age of 40 for contributions in gravitational physics. It consists of $10,000 and the opportunity to give a plenary lecture at the International meeting on General Relativity and Gravitation. The prize is funded by the Greek Foundation for Science and Technology (FORTH).
  - - posted September 11, 2006

• Physics faculty involved in $1M National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer Science initiative at LSU.
  - - posted September 8, 2006

• The Hearne Institute creation gets mentioned in Physics Today
  - - posted August 1, 2006

• Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin are among the first awardees of grants from the Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology Institute (FQXi).
  - - posted August 1, 2006

• Luis Lehner guest edited a special issue of the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (Institute of Physics, UK), collecting the paper of the program on numerical relativity at the Banff International Research Station.
  - - posted July 31, 2006

• Matthew Anderson is featured in this month's Diffpack Newsletter.
  - - posted July 3, 2006

• Luis Lehner has been appointed to the NSF Cyberinfrastructure User Advisory Committee. Taken from his invitation to join this new committee, "Your nationally renowned research expertise and experience with cyberinfrastructure make you an ideal choice as on of the intial members of this new advisory committeel. You will be among one of the inital twelve members asked to serve on this CUAC."
  - - posted May 26, 2006

• Scientists pitch regional hurricane center
  - - posted April 6, 2006

• Nicholas Van Meter, Senior Undergraduate Physics Major, has been named a 2006 Goldwater Scholar
  - - posted March 20, 2006

• "Boundary Conditions for Einstein's Field Equations: Mathematical and Numerical Analysis", by Olivier Sarbach and Manuel Tiglio, published in The Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations 2,839-883 (2005), has been chosen as featured article of the Journal.
  - - posted February 6, 2006

• The Louisiana Board of Regents gave their final approval to the creation of the Horace Hearne, Jr. Institute of Theoretical Physics.
  - - posted January 25, 2006

• Jorge Pullin has been appointed Managing Editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics D. This is a peer reviewed journal published by World Scientific in Singapore and is the leading journal in gravitation and cosmology published in Asia.
  - - posted January 5, 2006

• Asst. Professor, Hwang Lee has been awarded as Principal Investigator of a $400K one year grant from the prestigious National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Directors Innovation Initiative (DII) program for a seed research project entitled "Photonic-Crystal Satellite Reflectors and Radiators: A New Approach to Satellite Thermal Control."
  - - posted December 19, 2005

• Visiting Professor, Rodolfo Gambini, has been elected to the Academy of Sciences of the Third World (Trieste).
  - - posted December 7, 2005

• Jonathan Dowling was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) by the OSA Board of Directors at it's October 18th meeting. He is being recognized for "fundamental contributions to optics in the areas of photonic crystals, quantum imaging, quantum metrology, and quantum information processing, and for service to OSA." Dowling will receive the award at the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference in May of 2006.
  - - posted December 7, 2005

• Book Authored by LSU Researcher Published
  Carlos Palenzuela, Postdoctoral Researcher in Physics & Astronomy at LSU and the Center for Computation & Technology, celebrated the publication of his first book, "Elements of Numerical Relativity: From Einstein's Equations to Black Hole Simulations."
  - - posted October 3, 2005

• Jorge Pullin has been elected as a corresponding member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences.
  The Academy has 205 members from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela.
  - - posted September 27, 2005

• Research paper by M. Tiglio, L. Lehner, and O. Reula, highlighted in Classical and Quantum Gravity journal (PAPERS 5819).
  - - posted September 13, 2005

• Dr. Jonathan P. Dowling has been awarded a NASA Tech Brief Award for NTR no 40552: "High Power Fiber Laser Technology Using Linear and Nonlinear Photonic Bandgap Materials" by the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board.
  - - posted August 1, 2005

• Jorge Pullin and Rodolfo Gambini receive 2005 Essay Award from the Gravity Research Foundation - "Classical and Quantum General Relativity: A New Paradigm", Rodolfo Gambini, Instit. de Fisica, Montevideo, Uruguay and Jorge Pullin, LSU Physics & Astronomy.
  - - posted June 28, 2005

• Jonathan Dowling and Hwang Lee are Co-Investigators on a new four-year, Quantum Computation Concept Maturation (QCCM) grant on Linear Optical Quantum Computing that was just awarded by the National Security Agency (NSA) in conjunction with the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARDA) and Army Research Office (ARO). -
  - - posted April 8, 2005

• Jonathan Dowling is a Co-Investigator on a new five-year, Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) on Quantum Imaging, that was just awarded by the Army Research Office. The project is led by Robert Boyd at the University of Rochester, and other participants are from the University of Maryland, Boston University, Northwestern University, and MIT. -
  - - posted March 3, 2005

• Picture of a binary black hole simulation of the LSU Relativity Group on the cover of the National Science Foundation budget. -
  - - posted February 9, 2005

• LSU researcher, Mette B. Gaarde, wins award, grant from National Science Foundation for work on ultra-fast pulses of light and physics education.
  - - posted November 18, 2004

• Rodolfo Gambini, Associate Faculty of the Hearne Lab, was elected Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Exact and Natural Sciences of Argentina.
  - - posted November 29, 2004

• LSU's Hearne Laboratory for Theoretical Physics to host inaugural conference
  - - posted November 29, 2004

• Rodolfo Gambini, Associate Faculty of the Hearne Lab, Honoured by Third World Academy of Sciences
  - - posted November 29, 2004

• LSU researcher, Mette B. Gaarde, wins award, grant from National Science Foundation for work on ultra-fast pulses of light and physics education.
  - - posted November 18, 2004

• Jorge Pullin has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California-Santa Barbara
  • The Kavli Institute is the largest theoretical physics institute funded by the NSF. General purpose of the Institute is to contribute to the progress of theoretical physics, especially in areas overlapping the traditional subfields, in ways which are not easily realized in existing institutions. The institute's Director is David Gross, which is this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
  - - posted October 20, 2004

• Institute of Physics - At their May 2004 annual meeting, the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity nominated their personal highlights in the journal over the past year. Three papers by the LSU Relativity Group were selected for the 2003 and 2004 Highlights.
  
  • Articles are selected for many reasons - some contain outstanding research and breakthroughs while others are valuable reivews of the field. Some have an especially clear exposition and are beautifully presented; others are instructive, containing results and tools useful to many readers.
  - - posted September 24, 2004

• Professors Gabriela Gonzalez and Luis Lehner have been named Fellows of the Institute of Physics
  • This is the senior class of membership and indicates a very high level of achievement in physics and an outstanding contribution to the profession. Fellows of the Institute can use the designatory letters FInstP after their names.
  - - posted September 24, 2004

• International Society Appoints LSU Professor to Committee
  - - posted July 23, 2004

• LSU Assistant Professors Serve on International Editorial Board
  - - posted July 16, 2004

• Dr. Luis Lehner has been selected for the Phi Kappa Phi Non-Tenured Faculty Award in Natural and Physical Sciences.
  - - posted April 2, 2004

• HPCwire's - 2004 Top People to Watch
  • Dr. Ed Seidel, head of Louisiana State University's center for Computation and Technology in Baton Rouge, is world-renowned for his research on black holes. Ed also maintains a part-time appointment as a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, or the Albert Einstein Institute, in Berlin. Seidel's research is in astrophysics and numerical relativity.
  - - posted March 25, 2004

• J. Pullin named to the Editorial Board of Living Reviews in Relativity,
  an online journal that publishes review articles that are periodically updated by their authors.
  - - posted March 26, 2004

• LSU Physics mentioned in cover articles of Scientific American and Physics World

• LSU Physics mentioned in cover articles of Scientific American and Physics World

• Lehner, Tohline get major Information Technology grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • A collaboration between LSU, Brigham Young University and Long Island University has recently been awarded a four-year $2 million dollar grant. The research lead by Luis Lehner and Joel Tohline (LSU), Erich Hirschmann (BYU) and Steve Liebling (LIU) will concentrate on advancing information technology (development of adaptive mesh refinement techniques and their use in massive parallel computers like "SuperMike") and investigate astrophysically oriented problems involving strong/highly dynamical gravitational fields (black hole accretion systems). The research activities will combine expertise in applied mathematics, numerical relativiy, computational science and astrophysics.

• Lehner Receives Sloan Fellowship

• LSU Hires World-Renowned Astrophysicist to lead Technology Center

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