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This page will tell of my many travels to strange and exotic lands, and the wondrous adventures that I embarked upon. Unfortunately these haven't happened yet, so you'll have to wait for the fantastic tales of dare-doing that I'm sure to bring back.

Personal

  • 1984 and Summer 1986 - Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Early 1985 - Sydney, Australia
  • Early 1985 - Los Angeles, USA
  • Spring 1993 - Brittany, France
  • April 1996 - Barcelona, Spain
  • April 1997 - Paris, France
  • April 1998 - Venice, Italy
  • February 2001 - L'Obseratoire de Haute Provence, France
  • June 2001 - Kavos, Corfu, Greece
  • March 2004 - Los Angeles, USA
  • March 2006 - Seattle, USA
  • January 2007 - Geneva, Switzerland
  • July 2007 - Sydney to Brisbane, Australia
  • March 2008 - Los Angeles to San Francisco, California, USA
  • February 2000 - Vienna, Austria.
  • Jan 2009 - British Virgin Islands
  • Oct 2009 - Vancouver, Canada

Research

  • 22/10/02 - 26/10/02 GEO 600 meeting, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany.
  • 15/03/03 - 22/03/03 LSC meeting (LIGO LA), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
  • 02/04/03 - 05/04/03 GEO 600 meeting, Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany.
    • Presentation of a Bayesian method for obtaining a GW burst rate upper limit or confidence interval
  • 04/07/03 - 12/07/03 5th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Tirrenia (Pisa), Italy
    • Poster - Searching for Gravitational Waves from the Crab pulsar - the problem of timing noise
  • 18/08/03 - 21/08/03 LSC meeting (GEO600), Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany.
    • Update on pulsar analysis (password protected)
  • 29/09/03 - 03/10/03 PPARC e-Science Summer School, NeSC, Edinburgh.
  • 28/10/03 - 01/11/03 UK GRAD school, Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton.
  • 08/11/03 - 15/11/03 LSC meeting (LIGO WA), Hanford, Washington, USA.
  • 13/03/04 - 19/03/04 LSC meeting (LIGO LA), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
  • 04/04/04 - 08/04/04 GEO 600 meeting, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
  • 26/05/04 Cormack Bequest Meeting, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.
    • Presentation - Searching for gravitational waves from binary pulsars.
  • 03/06/04 - 08/06/04 - LSC Meeting, Tufts University, Medford, Boston, MA, USA.
    • Presentation to burst search group.
  • 03/11/04 - 10/11/04 - LSC Meeting, MIT, Cambridge, Boston, MA, USA.
  • 16/11/04 - 19/11/04 - Visit to Cardiff University to work with Prof. Sathyaprakash.
  • 14/12/04 - 18/12/04 - GWDAW 9, Annecy, France.
    • Presentation - Searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars.
  • 20/03/05 - 23/03/05 - LSC meeting (LIGO LA), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (not attended but presetation given by phone).
    • Presentation (password protected) - S3 time domain known pulsar search.
  • 04/04/05 - 08/04/05 - National Astronomy Meeting, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
    • Presentation - Gravitational waves from neutron stars.
    • Presentation - Bayesian techniques in gravitational wave data analysis.
  • 13/05/05 Cormack Bequest Meeting, University of St Andrews, UK.
    • Poster - Searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars.
  • 03/06/05 - 07/06/05 - LSC Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
    • Presentation (password protected) - S3 time domain known pulsar search.
  • 13/03/06 - Visit to Jodrell Bank Observatory for meeting with Michael Kramer.
  • 17/03/06 - 22/03/06 - LSC Meeting (LIGO WA), Hanford, Washington, USA.
    • Presentation - Preliminary results of the known pulsar search using S5 data.
    • Presentation - Searching for ring-down signals from SGR1806-20 during the 27th December GRB.
  • 22/04/06 - 25/04/06 - APS meeting, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA.
    • Presentation - A search for gravitational wave signals from known pulsars using early data from the LIGO S5 run
  • 12/08/06 - 17/08/06 - LSC Meeting, LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
    • Presentation - S5 known pulsar analysis - the first 8 months
  • 18/09/06 - 20/09/06 - Royal Society GRB discussion meeting, The Royal Society, London, UK.
    • Poster - Towards evidence based searches for ring-down gravitational wave signals from soft γ-ray repeater hyperflares
  • 11/10/06 - 13/10/06 - GEO meeting, The Lighthouse, Glasgow, UK.
    • Presentation - S5 known pulsar analysis - prospects for GEO.
  • 18/12/06 - 21/12/06 - GWDAW 11, Potsdam, Germany.
    • Presentation - New gravitational wave upper limits for selected millisecond pulsars using LIGO S5 data.
  • 31/01/07 - 02/02/07 - PPARC site visit, AEI, Hannover, Germany.
  • 27/02/07 - IoP Evening Lecture, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
  • 07/03/07 - Astronomy Group Seminar, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
  • 11/03/07 - 16/03/07 - Recontres de Moriond 2007, La Thuile, Val d'Aosta, Italy.
    • Presentation - Recent results from the LIGO pulsar searches.
  • 17/03/07 - 23/03/07 - LSC/VIRGO Meeting, Hilton Capitol Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
    • Presentation - S5 known pulsar search update & Beating spin-down: upper limits on emission from the Crab pulsar.
  • 14/04/07 - 17/04/07 - APS meeting, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
    • Presentation - Beating the Crab pulsar spin-down and other upper limits: new results from the LIGO S5 known pulsar search.
  • 8/07/07 - 14/07/07 - 7th Edoardo Amaldi Conference, Sydney, Australia.
    • Poster - Is there potential complementarity between LISA and pulsar timing?
  • 20/10/07 - 25/10/07 - LSC-VIRGO meeting, AEI Hannover, Germany.
  • 9/12/07 - 12/12/07 - LSC-VIRGO meeting, MIT, Boston, USA.
  • 9/12/07 - 12/12/07 - GWDAW12, MIT, Boston, USA.
    • Poster - LISA and pulsar timing observations of the most massive black hole coalescences.
  • 7/01/08 - 11/01/08 - 211th American Astronomical Society meeting, Austin, Texas, USA.
    • Presentation - Results from searches for a continuous gravitational wave signal from the Crab pulsar.
  • 15/03/08 - 20/03/08 - LSC- VIRGO meeting, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.
  • 31/03/08 - 4/04/08 - RAS National Astronomy Meeting, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
    • Presentation - Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: Are we there yet?.
  • 9/06/08 - 12/06/08 - LSC-VIRGO meeting, LAL Orsay, Paris, France.
  • 17/06/08 - 19/09/08 - working at the AEI in Hannover.
  • 20/09/08 - 25/09/08 - LSC-VIRGO meeting, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • 18/1/09 - 22/1/09 - GWDAW13, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
    • Presentation - The search for gravitational waves from known pulsars.
  • 16/03/08 - 19/03/08 - LSC-VIRGO meeting, Arcadia, CA, USA.
    • Presentation - The search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with LIGO S5 data.
  • 20/04/09 - 23/04/09 - RAS National Astronomy Meeting/JENAM, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.
    • Presentation - The Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars.
  • 18/06/09 - 20/06/09 - Probing Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves, Center for Gravitational Wave Physics Penn State University, State College, PA, USA.
  • 21/06/09 - 26/06/09 - 8th Edoardo Amaldi Meeting, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
    • Presentation - Searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars using LIGO S5 data.
    • Poster - Probing individual SMBH binaries using simulated PTA data.
  • 19/09/09 - 24/09/09 - LSC-Virgo meeting, Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 05/10/09 - 24/10/09 - SciMon shifts, LIGO Hanford Observatory, WA, USA.
  • 23/11/09 - Seminar at Department of Physics, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK.
  • 08/01/10 - Seminar at General Relativity Group, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
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