Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL
The Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) has awarded Dr Jackson Levi Said from the Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy (ISSA) one of its Internationalisation Partnership Award Scheme which will consolidate and expand collaboration between the University of Malta, the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP) at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) on this research theme.
The ‘TeleGravity’ grant will fund the exchange of early career researchers between UM and, ITP and NTUA which will promote closer ties with these research institutions. This grant will also be used to increase the presence of UM researchers at international gravitational wave conferences.
Recently, the Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy (ISSA) together with the Department of Physics hosted a large conference on the theme of gravitational wave research which was attended by over 100 leading researchers in the field. This was part of Malta’s participation in the COST Action GWverse which brings together gravitational wave researchers from across Europe.