Bruce Allen (physicist)
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Born | May 11, 1959 |
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Academic advisors | Stephen Hawking, Rainer Weiss |
Doctoral students | Robert R. Caldwell |
Bruce Allen (born May 11, 1959) is an American physicist and director of the
Hannover Germany and leader of the Einstein@Home project for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. He is also a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the initiator / project leader of smartmontools hard disk utility.[1]
He has done research work on models of the very early universe (inflationary cosmology, cosmic strings). Allen currently leads a research group working on the detection of
US National Science Foundation
since 1987.
Education and positions
- 1976 Graduated from Wayland High School, Wayland, Massachusetts, US (Allen belonged to the class of 1977, but graduated a year early with the class of 1976).
- 1980 BS in physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (advisor: Rainer Weiss)
- 1984 PhD in )
- 1983–1985 Postdoctoral fellow, University of California Santa Barbara(Physics Department, advisors James Hartle and Gary Horowitz)
- 1985–1986 Postdoctoral fellow, Tufts University (physics department, advisors Alex Vilenkin and Larry Ford)
- 1986–1987 Chercheur Associé, Observatoire de Paris – Meudon, France (advisors Brandon Carter and Thibault Damour)
- 1987–1989 Research assistant professor, Tufts University
- 1989–1992 Assistant professor of physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- 1992–1997 Associate professor of physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- 1997–2007 Professor of physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- 2007–present Adjunct llProfessor of physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- 2007–present Director, department of observational relativity and cosmology, Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany
- 2008–present Honorary professor of physics, Leibniz University Hannover
Visiting appointments
- 1994 Six months, Isaac Newton Mathematical Institute, Cambridge, England
- 1995 Six months, Caltech Relativity Group
- 1997 One year, Caltech LIGO Project
- 1999 Six months, Caltech LIGO Project
- 2000–2005 Few months/year, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Awards
- 1980 Phi Beta Kappa, MIT
- 1980–85 NSF Graduate Fellowship (declined)
- 1980–82 Churchill Scholarship (declined)
- 1980–82 Marshall Scholar, University of Cambridge
- 1981 Knight Prize, University of Cambridge
- 1990 First Prize, Gravity Research Foundation
- 1997 University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Graduate School Research Award
- 2002–03 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2004 Elected Fellow, Institute of Physics (UK)
- 2005 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2016 Lower Saxony State Prize 2016 (shared with Buonanno and Danzmann)[3]
- 2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize (as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
- 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
- 2017 Einstein Medal (as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
- 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research (as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
References
- ^ "Team – smartmontools". smartmontools. December 23, 2003. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
- ISSN 0036-8075.
- ^ "Niedersächsischer Staatspreis 2016 geht an Physiker aus Hannover". Nds. Staatskanzlei (in German). May 31, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bruce Allen (Physicist).
- Bruce Allen faculty page Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- "Prof. Bruce Allen Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)". April 25, 2023. Retrieved July 16, 2023.