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GWIC Roadmap now available
The GWIC Roadmap is now available to the public. The report is divided into two parts, an Executive Summary that summarizes the major considerations and highlights, and the body of the report which gives the full details behind these top-level items.
Link for the Roadmap Document (PDF, 7MB)
Background
At its 2007 meeting, GWIC appointed a small subcommittee (chaired by Jay Marx) to prepare a roadmap for the future of gravitational wave detection and astrophysics. The goal is to lay out a path for the next thirty years, beginning with the most important scientific objectives, identifying the technology challenges which must be met, and showing the different efforts world-wide support these objectives. The goal is to have a vision for the future that the gravitational wave community can support and advocate, and which can be used to inform fellow scientists and funding agencies throughout the world.
GWIC subcommittee---Global Roadmap for the field of gravitational wave science
Membership:
- Jay Marx
- Karsten Danzmann
Jim Hough (ex-officio)
Kazuaki Kuroda
David McClelland
Benoit Mours
Sterl Phinney
Sheila Rowan
B. Sathyaprakash
Flavio Vetrano
Stefano Vitale
Stan Whitcomb
Cliff Will
- Chair
- Members
Charge:
- Develop roadmap for field (ground and space based) with 30-year horizon. Take account known national and regional planned projects. Identify relevant science opportunities and the facilities needed to address them. A perspective to optimize the global science in the field should form the basis for this roadmap.
- The report should be brief and to the point. It should be written assuming that the readership is scientists from outside of the field. The report should be of sufficient quality to be distributed to national and international roadmap and priority setting groups.