Bruce Allen
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Bruce Allen is a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is leader of the Einstein@Home project for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. 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 gravitational waves.
Date of birth: May 11, 1959
Marital status: Married, with two children.
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[edit] Education/Positions
1980 B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (advisor: Rainer Weiss)
1984 PhD. in Gravitation and Cosmology, Cambridge University, England (advisor: Stephen Hawking)
1983-5 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara (Physics Department)
1985-6 Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University (Physics Department)
1986-7 Chercheur Associé, Observatoire de Paris - Meudon, France
1987-9 Research Assistant Professor, Tufts University
1989-92 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
1992-7 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
1997- Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
[edit] 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
2000-5 Few months/year, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany
[edit] Publications
About 80 in refereed journals.
[edit] Awards
1980 Phi Beta Kappa, MIT
1980-5 NSF Graduate Fellowship (declined)
1980-2 Churchill Scholarship (declined)
1980-2 Marshall Scholar, Cambridge University
1981 Knight Prize, Cambridge University
1990 First Prize, Gravity Research Foundation
1997 University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Graduate School Research Award
2002-3 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2004 Elected Fellow, Institute of Physics (UK)
2005 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society
[edit] Research Support
Allen's research work has been funded by the US National Science Foundation since 1987.
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