About
Hello, I'm Michele Vallisneri, and I am a physicist in the Astrophysics and Space Science section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Here you will find information about my research and about me in general.
You can see my curriculum vitae, read about my research interests, browse my publications, look at my photoalbum, and check out my technical weblog/wiki. (Click on these links, or use the menu at the side of the page.)
What's new
| Dec 1, 2011. | Here's the video and slides of two seminars that I gave on my... Canadian tour of PI and CITA: "How Good is good enough for Gravitational-wave Templates?" (Nov 28, also a local mirror) and "Space-based gravitational-wave astronomy in the next decade, with a coda of statistics" (Dec 1). |
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| Nov 4, 2011. | My ``Beyond Fisher'' article is now published in Physical Review Letters. Thanks to my colleagues and to the anonymous referees for their support and excellent suggestions. |
| Aug 4, 2011. | New preprint: ``Beyond Fisher: exact sampling distributions of the maximum-likelihood estimator in gravitational-wave parameter estimation.'' I'm very happy about this one... |
| Jan 6, 2011. | The Oct 22 performance of Einstein's Cosmic Messengers was shot by rising film-makers Roberto Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi, and a live DVD will be available soon. Here's a short documentary feature about gravitational waves that I produced and that includes interviews with Andrea, with LIGO Executive Director Jay Marx, and with me. You may also be interested in the 30-min panel discussion that followed the concert, featuring K C Cole, Elena Pierpaoli, Andrea, and me. |
| Oct 22, 2010. | Upcoming: Einstein's Cosmic Messengers at USC, followed by a panel discussion with Andrea, Elena Pierpaoli, and me, moderated by K. C. Cole. |
| Apr 26, 2010. | My contribution on gravitational waves is published in the Pars Foundation's Findings on Elasticity, which features ``the work of 50 artists and scientists who shape the way we look at the world today [...] their findings range from the quirky, humorous and beautiful to the mind-bogglingly complex and disturbing.'' |
| Feb 28, 2010. | I write a blog entry for the JPL Space Place mission chronicles: ``Checking the Pulse of Spacetime Itself.'' Space Place is the JPL K-12 education and outreach website. |
| Feb 22, 2010. | New preprint: ``Searches for Cosmic-String Gravitational-Wave Bursts in Mock LISA Data,'' with Michael Cohen and Curt Cutler. Another labor of love... |
| Jan 29, 2010. | Introducing Luca Marco Vallisneri, our firstborn. 7 lbs 9 oz (3.45 kg), 19 in (48 cm), Apgar 9-9, and a sweet guy altogether. Who could have asked for more? (Anche su PramzanBlog...) |
Contact
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Michele Vallisneri
Theoretical Astrophysics 350-17
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena CA 91125 USA
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