The Gravitational Wave International Committee:

GWIC, the Gravitational Wave International Committee, was formed in 1997 to facilitate international collaboration and cooperation in the construction, operation and use of the major gravitational wave detection facilities world-wide. It is affiliated with the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics as a sub-committee of IUPAP's Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitation International Committee. GWIC is also affiliated with the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.

GWIC's Goals:

• Promote international cooperation in all phases of construction and exploitation of gravitational-wave detectors;
• Coordinate and support long-range planning for new instrument proposals, or proposals for instrument upgrades;
• Promote the development of gravitational-wave detection as an astronomical tool, exploiting especially the potential for coincident detection of gravitational-waves and events from other fields (photons, cosmic-rays, neutrinos);
• Organize regular, world-inclusive meetings and workshops for the study of problems related to the development and exploitation of new or enhanced gravitational-wave detectors, and foster research and development of new technology;
• Represent the gravitational-wave detection community internationally, acting as its advocate;
• Provide a forum for the laboratory directors to regularly meet, discuss, and plan jointly the operations and direction of their laboratories and experimental gravitational-wave physics generally.

More about GWIC:

GWIC - Ten Years on (PDF) reprinted from Matters of Gravity (Fall 2007),
the newsletter of the Topical Group on Gravitation of the American Physical Society.

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