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.)
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What's new
Oct 2009: more performances of Einstein's Cosmic Messengers.
| 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. |
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| 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...) |
| Dec 28, 2009. | Here's my new movie medley about gravitational-wave sources for LISA (to be shown at the LISA booth at the 215th American Astronomical Society meeting). |
| Dec 2, 2009. | New preprint: ``The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 3 to Challenge 4,'' with the MLDC task force and Challenge 3 participants. |
| Nov 23, 2009. | The fourth Mock LISA Data Challenge is out! |
| Oct 21 and 23, 2009. | Two performances of Einstein's Cosmic Messengers (with my introductory lectures): Oct 21 @Berkeley and Oct 23 @UCLA (pictures). |
Contact
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Michele Vallisneri
Theoretical Astrophysics 350-17 (new!)
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena CA 91125 USA
tel: +1 (818) 393 7634
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