Bruce Allen (physicist)
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Bruce Allen (born May 11, 1959) is an American physicist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in 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.
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. Allen's research work has been funded by the US National Science Foundation since 1987.
Education/Positions
- 1976 Graduated from Wayland High School, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA. (Allen belonged to the class of 1977, but graduated a year early with the class of 1976.)
- 1980 B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (advisor: Rainer Weiss)
- 1984 PhD. in Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Cambridge, England (advisor: Stephen Hawking)
- 1983-1985 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara (Physics Department)
- 1985-1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University (Physics Department)
- 1986-1987 Chercheur Associé, Observatoire de Paris - Meudon, France
- 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 Professor 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, University of Hanover
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
- 1980-5 NSF Graduate Fellowship (declined)
- 1980-2 Churchill Scholarship (declined)
- 1980-2 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
- 2002-3 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2004 Elected Fellow, Institute of Physics (UK)
- 2005 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society
External links
- Bruce Allen faculty page at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Bruce Allen's page at the Albert Einstein Institute
- Bruce Allen's publications on Google Scholar
- Bruce Allen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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