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Carlos Lousto, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, won the American Physical Society’s Edward A. Bouchet Award, which recognizes a distinguished minority physicist who has made significant contributions to physics research and the advancement of underrepresented minority scientists. Lousto’s research was instrumental in the breakthrough detection of gravitational waves produced by merging black holes.professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, was presented with an award from the mayor of Lanùs, Argentina, his hometown, for his contribution to society and international science. Lousto's research contributed to the discovery, by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, of the first gravitational waveform created by the collision of two black holes.
professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, was awarded a $267,736 allocation on the National Science Foundation-supported supercomputer, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). The continued allocation of computational resources, visualization and storage will support the center's research of gravitational waves from extreme black hole binaries.
researcher in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, and James Healy, postdoctoral researcher, presented "Unstable flip-flopping binary black holes," at the American Physical Society meeting in Salt Lake City on April 17.
