Professor Bernard Schutz

Gravity Exploration Institute

: SchutzBF@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 29208 74000 ext 77329

My current position as Director of the Data Innovation Research Institute allows me to expand my previous data science research, where I have been active in areas like the reproducibility of research and user interfaces and workflows. This work draws on my work in gravitational wave detection, where I have worked since the 1980s to develop techniques to aid the recognition of weak signals in large data sets.

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2006

Abbott, B. et al. 2006. Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data. Physical Review D 73(6), article number: 62001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001)
Abbott, B. et al. 2006. Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8), pp. S29. (10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S05)
Willke, B. et al. 2006. The GEO-HF project. Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8), article number: S207. (10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S26)
Lück, H. et al. 2006. Status of the GEO600 detector. Classical and Quantum Gravity 23(8), pp. S71-S78. (10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S10)
Abbott, B. et al. 2006. Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 73(10), article number: 102002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.73.102002)

2005

Balasubramanian, R. et al. 2005. Upper Limits on a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves. Physical Review Letters 95(22), article number: 221101. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.221101)
Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Search for Gravitational Waves from Galactic and Extra-Galactic Binary Neutron Stars. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 72(8), article number: 82001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.082001)
Schutz, B. F. and Wen, L. Q. 2005. Coherent Network Detection of Gravitational Waves: the Redundancy Veto. Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(18), pp. S1321-S1335. (10.1088/0264-9381/22/18/S46)
Schutz, B. F. and Lattimer, J. M. 2005. Constraining the Equation of State with Moment of Inertia Measurements. Astrophysical Journal 629, pp. 979 - 984. (10.1086/431543)
Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data. Physical Review Letters 94(18), article number: 181103. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181103)
Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors. Physical Review D 72(4), article number: 42002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.042002)
Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Search for gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescences in the galactic halo. Physical Review D 72(8), article number: 82002. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.082002)
Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run. Physical Review D 72(6), article number: 62001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.062001)
Abbott, B. et al. 2005. First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform. Physical Review D 72(10), article number: 102004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.102004)
Grote, H. et al. 2005. The status of GEO 600. Classical and Quantum Gravity 22(10), pp. S193-S198. (10.1088/0264-9381/22/10/009)
Abbott, B. et al. 2005. Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 72(12), article number: 122004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.72.122004)

2004

Schutz, B. F., Krishnan, B., Papa, A. and Sintes, A. 2004. Hough Transform Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves. Physical Review -Series D- 70(8), article number: 82001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.70.082001)
Abbott, B. et al. 2004. Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors. Physical Review D 69(8), article number: 82004. (10.1103/PhysRevD.69.082004)
Abbott, B. et al. 2004. First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts. Physical Review D 69(10), article number: 102001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.69.102001)
Abbott, B. et al. 2004. Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars. Physical Review D 69(12), article number: 122001. (10.1103/PhysRevD.69.122001)
Willke, B. et al. 2004. Status of GEO 600. Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5), pp. S417-S423. (10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/006)
Heng, I. S., Balasubramanian, R., Sathyaprakash, B. S. and Schutz, B. F. 2004. First steps towards characterizing the hierarchical algorithm for curves and ridges pipeline. Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5), pp. S821-S826. (10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/065)
Allen, B. et al. 2004. Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134. Classical and Quantum Gravity 21(5), pp. S671-S676. (10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/042)

2003

Sintes, A. M. et al. 2003. Detector characterization in GEO 600. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(17), pp. S371-S739. (10.1088/0264-9381/20/17/316)
Hewitson, M. et al. 2003. A report on the status of the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(17), pp. S581-S591. (10.1088/0264-9381/20/17/301)
Sathyaprakash, B. S. and Schutz, B. F. 2003. Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(10), pp. S209-S218. (10.1088/0264-9381/20/10/324)

2002

Allen, B., Papa, M. A. and Schutz, B. F. 2002. Optimal Strategies for Sinusoidal Signal Detection. Physical Review -Series D- 66(10), article number: 102003. (10.1103/PhysRevD.66.102003)
Willke, B. et al. 2002. The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector. Classical and Quantum Gravity 19(7), pp. 1377-1388. (10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/321)

1996

Nicholson, D. et al. 1996. Results of the first coincident observations by two laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Physics letters. A. 218(3-6), pp. 175-180. (10.1016/0375-9601(96)00438-0)

1995

Dickson, C. and Schutz, B. 1995. Reassessment of the reported correlations between gravitational waves and neutrinos associated with SN 1987A. Physical Review d Particles and Fields 51, article number: 2644. (10.1103/PhysRevD.51.2644)

My principal research over the last 40 years has been in the study of the physics and astrophysics of possible gravitational wave sources, including black holes and neutron stars; and in methods of analyzing data from gravitational wave detectors to discover and study gravitational waves.

I am the Principal Investigator responsible for data analysis for the GEO600 collaboration, which is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

I am also a member of the eLISA Science Team, which guides the development of the ESA mission to place a gravitational wave detector in space. eLISA is currently approved for launch in 2034-6.

For many years I have taught general relativity and gravitational wave science to undergraduates and MSc students in the School of Physics and Astronomy and its predecessors. My textbook, A First Course in General Relativity (Cambridge University Press) is one of the most widely used introductory texts in the subject worldwide, and its third edition will appear in 2022. My textbook on differential geometry, Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics (Cambridge University Press), is also widely used at the post-graduate level. My "semi-popular" book Gravity From the Ground Up is an introduction to modern relativistic gravity that is aimed at school and university students who want an intuitive understanding of the subject; it employs algebra but not calculus in its mathematical treatment.

As a part-time professor I no longer teach full modules, but I give occasional lectures in selected courses.

I was born and educated in the USA, and came to Cardiff for my first academic teaching position as a lecturer in 1974.

In 1995, then a full professor, I became part time in Cardiff to take a full time position as a director of the new Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany (http://www.aei.mpg.de/).

I retired from that position in 2014 and returned to Cardiff to help set up the new Data Innovation Institute, one of Cardiff's University Research Institutes.

Honours and awards

Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Uppsala
I have been awarded the Amaldi Gold Medal of the Italian Society for Gravitation and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Glasgow University
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fellow of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK).

Professional memberships

Institute of Physics (UK)
Royal Astronomical Society
American Physical Society
German Physical Society
Max Planck Society
International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation
International Astronomical Union
COSPAR (Fundamental Physics section)
Society of Sigma Xi (USA)

Committees and reviewing

2003-19: Member, Executive Committee, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
2012-18: Member, LISA project science working team with responsibility for theory and data analysis
2011-2018: Member, Editorial Board, Physical Review X
2007-16: Member, International Committee of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation
2015-16: Member, ESA Gravitational-wave Observatory Advisory Team
2012-15: Member, Program Advisory Board, KAGRA (Japanese gravitational wave interferometer project)
2003-12: Member, LISA International Science Team (LIST), representing ESA.
2004-08: Chair, ESA Fundamental Physics Advisory Group, and member, Space Science Advisory Committee, European Space Agency
1998-2014: Editor-in-Chief, Living Reviews in Relativity
1993-97: Member, Fundamental Physics Advisory Group, European Space Agency
1994-95: Chairman, Astronomy Committee of the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), responsible for setting UK spending priorities in space and ground-based astronomy. Previously chair and member of many grant-awarding panels of PPARC and its predecessors in the UK.
1990-92: Member, Council of the Royal Astronomical Society

Fellowship for pioneer of gravitational wave astronomy

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