Recent Publications

  1. Constraining effective quantum gravity with LISA. Yunes N, Finn LS.
  2. Detecting a stochastic gravitational-wave background (2009). Finn LS, Larson SL, Romano JD.
  3. Response of interferometric gravitational wave detectors (2009). Finn LS.
  4. Gravitational-wave probe of effective quantum gravity (2008).
  5. Maximum entropy for gravitational wave data analysis: Inferring the physical parameters of core-collapse supernovae (2008).

Recent Presentations

  1. Pointing LISA. Department Colloquium, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Texas, Brownsville. April 2009.
  2. Computational Challenges of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Institute for Computational Science Invited Seminar Series, Penn State. March 2009.
  3. Multi-Messenger Astronomy with Gravitational Waves. Department Colloquium, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. February 2009.
  4. Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Inference and Maximum Entropy. Technical Seminary, Physics and Astronomy Department, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. February 2009.
  5. Five Lectures on Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College of London, England, United Kingdom. February 2009.
  6. Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Department Colloquium, Astronomy Department, Nijmegen University, Netherlands. September 2008.

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Research

I'm interested in the universe. Of all the ways that we may come to learn more about the universe in the next decade I believe the most transformative will be gravitational wave observations combined with more conventional observational modalities. The focus of my research is thus on speeding that moment when gravitational waves will be detected directly and developing the analytic and inferential tools that will allow us to fully exploit that detection to learn about the cosmos. I'm involved in all the major projects whose aim is the direct detection of gravitational waves --- LIGO, LISA and NANOGrav --- and how we may use observations with these or similar detectors to improve our understanding of gamma-ray bursts, binary stellar populations and evolution, the formation and evolution of galaxies and the structure of our own galaxy, and even, perhaps, gather clues that will help us understand how nature reconciles gravity and quantum mechanics.