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| BATON ROUGE – Gabriela Gonzalez, associate professor of physics and astronomy at LSU, has been selected to participate in a National Academy of Sciences panel called “Astro 2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey.” According to its Web site, Astro 2010 will survey the field of space- and ground-based astronomy and astrophysics, recommending priorities for the most important scientific and technical activities of the decade 2010-2020. Principal goals of the study will be to carry out an assessment of activities in astronomy and astrophysics, including both new and previously identified concepts, and to prepare a concise report that will be addressed to the agencies supporting the field, the Congressional committees with jurisdiction over those agencies, the scientific community and the public. Gonzalez will serve on the Program Prioritization Panel for programs in the Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation section. “This is an important opportunity to study and participate in setting the national priorities for science and will involve hard but very interesting work,” said Gonzalez. “Deciding on priorities is an important but necessary exercise for the health of the national scientific community, and previous surveys have demonstrated they can be influential in the course the national agencies and the scientists take for pursuing the best science.” Gonzalez works with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, detectors located in Livingston, La., and Hanford, Wash. She has worked on the commissioning of the detectors since she came to LSU and is searching for gravitational waves in the data generated by them. She is a working group leader of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, dedicated to the characterization of the data. For more information about Astro 2010, visit http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bpa/Astro2010.html. -30- |
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