{"id":51,"date":"2015-01-02T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T21:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2019-10-01T06:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:23:06","slug":"professor-shoemaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/professor-shoemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Shoemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/shoemaker_cv.docx\"> Prof. Shoemaker\u2019s CV <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>contact<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">office: 1-90D Boggs Building<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">phone: 404.385.3908<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">fax: 404.894.9958<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">email: deirdre at gatech dot edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_6\"><strong>mail<\/strong><br \/>\n837 State St.<br \/>\nSchool of Physics<br \/>\nGeorgia Institute of Technology<br \/>\nAtlanta GA 30332-0430<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_4\">Black holes, spacetime wrinkles and waves, understanding these and other aspects of gravity drives Deirdre Shoemaker&#8217;s research. \u00a0 Does this sound like science fiction? \u00a0The Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves for the first time on September 14 2015.  The astrophysical object that generated the gravitational wave was two black holes colliding billions of light years away from Earth.  This first event, and the many that are following after, has used in the era of gravitational wave astronomy.  We can confront our theoretical expectations, largely derived from Einstein&#8217;s theory of gravity, \u00a0with\u00a0observations of gravity acting in the universe. \u00a0The strange and wondrous predictions of Einstein&#8217;s theory are playing out in the Universe and we are watching!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_4\">Deirdre joined the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in 2014 and the LISA Consortium in 2017. \u00a0She has won the NSF Career award and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. She has been elected to the Executive Committees of the APS Division of Computational Physics and Topical Group on Gravity. In 2013, she was elected to the Chair-line of the APS Division of Gravitational Physics.  She was appointed to the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisor Council in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_4\">Deirdre Shoemaker is the Dunn Family Professor of Physics. She received her B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics from Penn State in 1994 and her PhD in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. \u00a0She was a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State and Cornell University before joining the faculty at Penn State in 2004. \u00a0She moved to the School of Physics at Georgia Tech in 2008 and is an adjunct \u00a0Professor of the School of Computational Science and Engineering. \u00a0 She is one of the founding members of the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics \u00a0and its Director. \u00a0 In 2017, Deirdre took on the role of Associate Director for Research and Strategic Initiatives for the Institute for Data Engineering and Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Shoemaker\u2019s CV contact office: 1-90D Boggs Building phone: 404.385.3908 fax: 404.894.9958 email: deirdre at gatech dot edu mail 837 State St. School of Physics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravity.gatech.edu\/Shoemaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}