{"id":150709,"date":"2025-11-05T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=150709"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:55:09","slug":"uwm-professor-wins-award-for-gravitational-science-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-professor-wins-award-for-gravitational-science-work\/","title":{"rendered":"51ÁÔÆæ professor wins award for gravitational science work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patrick Brady, distinguished professor of physics at 51ÁÔÆæ, has been honored for his work in gravitational-wave science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brady, the director of the Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics at 51ÁÔÆæ, was given the American Physical Society\u2019s 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aps.org\/funding-recognition\/award\/isaacson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science<\/a>, announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The award cites Brady\u2019s \u201ctrailblazing work in gravitational wave data analysis techniques, computing, and cyberinfrastructure, and for leadership in gravitational wave science that enables multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational wave observations.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_121483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121483\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121483\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/05\/Brady250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Brady<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brady was part of the 51ÁÔÆæ team that contributed to the groundbreaking first detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015. These ripples in space-time are caused by cosmic collisions of black holes and neutron stars. The discovery confirmed a major prediction of Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity and was recognized with the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/physics\/2017\/press-release\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel Prize in Physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">From 2019 to 2025, Brady served as the elected spokesperson (leader) of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, an international collection of more than 1,400 scientists from 127 institutions in 19 countries. Together with the European Virgo and Japanese KAGRA detectors, LIGO continues to improve its sensitivity and has now measured the waves from more than 300 cosmic collisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A decade after the initial discovery, the collaboration achieved another milestone: using a signal from a black hole merger detected in January 2025 (GW250114), the group confirmed Hawking&#8217;s area theorem, which predicts that the total area of a black hole\u2019s event horizon can never decrease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Isaacson Award is given each year for outstanding contributions in the fields of gravitational-wave physics, gravitational-wave astrophysics and associated technologies, made possible with the support of Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss, two of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Brady, director of the Leonard E. 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