Vuk Mandić (born April 20, 1975, in
Priboj,
Serbia) is a Serbian-American astrophysicist and professor of physics and astronomy at the
University of Minnesota.
In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the
American Physical Society
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(APS).
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Biography
He grew up in
Podgorica, where he received his elementary and secondary education.
[ For his university education, he went to the United States. He graduated in 1998 with a B.S. in physics and mathematics from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and in 2004 with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.]Bernard Sadoulet
Bernard Sadoulet (born 23 April 1944 in Nice) is a French physicist.
Sadoulet studied from 1963 to 1965 at the École polytechnique and received his doctorate in 1971 at University of Paris-Sud in Orsay. From 1966 to 1973 he worked at CERN and fro ...
.
From 2004 to 2007 Mandic was supported by a Millikan Postdoctoral Fellowship at Caltech to work on the LIGO project to search for gravitational wave
Gravitational waves are waves of the intensity of gravity generated by the accelerated masses of an orbital binary system that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light. They were first proposed by Oliver Heaviside in 1 ...
s. In 2007 he became a faculty member in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Minnesota, where he now is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor.[
In August 2017 he was part of the team that detected the GW170817 gravitational wave signal.]general relativity theory
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, astrophysics, and astronomy. His collaborations with various scientific teams have resulted in more than 350 publications with cumulative citations over 92,000.[
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References
External links
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* Stochastic Astrophysical Foreground from Compact Binary Mergers (Lectures 1 to 5) by Vuk Mandic, ICTS (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences) Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, 05 - 16 July 2021 ICTS Bangalore Online Lectures, posted on YouTube, September 25, 2021
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1975 births
Living people
Serbian physicists
20th-century American physicists
21st-century American physicists
Astrophysicists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Minnesota faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
People from Priboj
People from Podgorica