Grant David Meadors

Education

• Ph.D., Physics
• University of Michigan
• 2014

• M.S., Physics
• University of Michigan
• 2009

• B.A., Physics
• Reed College
• 2008

• A.S., Physics
• Portland Community College
• 2004

Positions

• 2019 - Present | Postdoc

Awards

• Breakthrough Prize (collaboration) Special Prize in Fundamental Physics, 2016
• Gravitational Wave International Committee Braccini Thesis Prize Honorable Mention, 2015
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2010
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Academic Advisory Council LIGO Fellowship, 2009
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Foundation Goldwater Scholarship, 2007
• Reed College Math and Natural Sciences Division Academic Commendation, 2006
• Reed College Physics Department Qualifying Exam Special Commendation, 2006
• Reed College Office of the President Commendation for Excellence, 2006
• Independent Order of Foresters Scholarship, 2005
• Portland Community College Juan Young Scholarship, 2004

Professional Societies

• American Physical Society
• Institute of Physics
• American Geophysical Union
• National Postdoc Association
• National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals

Publications

• E.O. Romero-Severson, N. Hengartner, G.D. Meadors, R. Ke, “Change in global transmission rates of COVID-19 through May 6 2020”, in press (2020)
• G.D. Meadors, S. Jones, K. Hickmann, C. Arge, H. Godinez-Vasquez, C. Henney, “Data assimilative optimization of WSA source surface and interface radii using particle filter”, Space Weather 18 (2020) 5
• G. Ashton, M. Huebner, P.D. Lasky, C. Talbot, K. Ackley, S. Biscoveanu, Q. Chu, A. Divakarla, P.J. Easter, B. Goncharov, F. Hernandez Vivanco, J. Harms, M.E. Lower, G.D. Meadors, D. Melchor, E. Payne, M.D. Pitkin, J. Powell, N. Sarin, R.J.E. Smith, E. Thrane, “BILBY: A user-friendly Bayesian inference library for gravitational-wave astronomy”, Astrophysical Journal Supplement 241 (2019) 27
• J. Westerweck, A.B. Nielsen, O. Fichher-Birnholtz, M. Cabero, C. Capano, T. Dent, B. Krishnan, G. Meadors, A.H. Nitz, “Low significance of evidence for black hole echoes in gravitational wave data”, Physical Review D 97 (2018) 124037
• G.D. Meadors, B. Krishnan, M.A. Papa, J.T. Whelan, Y. Zhang, “Resampling to accelerate cross-correlation searches for continuous gravitational waves from binary systems”, Physical Review D 97 (2018) 044017
• G.D. Meadors, E. Goetz, K. Riles, T. Creighton, F. Robinet, “Searches for continuous gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 and XTE J1751-305 in LIGO’s sixth science run”, Physical Review D 95 (2017) 042005
• G.D. Meadors, E. Goetz, K. Riles, “Tuning into Scorpius X-1: adapting a continuous gravitational-wave search for a known binary system”, Classical and Quantum Gravity 33 (2016) 105017
• C. Messenger, H.J. Bulten, S.G. Crowder, V. Dergachev, D.K. Galloway, E. Goetz, R.J.G. Jonker, P.D. Lasky, G.D. Meadors, A. Melatos, S. Premachandra, K. Riles, L. Sammut, E.H. Thrane, J.T. Whelan, Y. Zhang, “Gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1: a comparison of search methods and prospects for detection with advanced detectors”, Physical Review D 92 (2015) 023006
• E.O. Romero-Severson, G.D. Meadors, E. Volz, “A generating function approach to HIV transmission with dynamic contact rates”, Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, 9 (2014) 2
• G.D. Meadors, K. Kawabe, K. Riles, “Increasing LIGO sensitivity by feedforward subtraction of auxiliary length control noise”, Classical and Quantum Gravity 31 (2014) 105014

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