GWIC | Roadmap 2010

GWIC Roadmap 2010

A strategic tool in planning for the development of capabilities and facilities needed to seize the tremendous scientific opportunities now on the horizon.

In the coming decades, ultra-sensitive arrays of ground-based instruments and complementary spaced-based instruments will continue to observe the gravitational wave sky, inevitably discovering entirely unexpected phenomena while providing new insight into many of the most profound astrophysical phenomena known. This new window into the cosmos could revolutionize humanity’s understanding of the Universe in which we live.

The goal of this roadmap is to serve the international gravitational wave community and its stakeholders as a tool for the development of capabilities and facilities needed to address the exciting scientific opportunities on the intermediate and long-term horizons.

This roadmap will serve the international gravitational wave community and its stakeholders as a strategic tool in planning for the development of capabilities and facilities needed to seize the tremendous scientific opportunities now on the horizon. This material represents the consensus best judgment of GWIC following discussions with leaders in the gravitational-wave field and with other members of the gravitational physics and astrophysics communities, and with representatives of funding agencies.

GWIC Roadmap 2010 Committee

Karsten Danzmann, AEI Hannover, Germany
James Hough, University of Glasgow, UK (ex-officio)
Kazuaki Kuroda, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Tokyo, Japan
David McClelland, Australian National University, Australia
Jay Marx, Caltech, USA
Benoit Mours, LAPP Annecy, France
Sterl Phinney, Caltech, USA
Sheila Rowan, University of Glasgow, UK
Flavio Vetrano, University of Urbino, Italy
Stefano Vitale, University of Trento, Italy
Stan Whitcomb, Caltech, USA
Clifford Will, Washington University, St Louis, USA
Advisory Member: B. Sathyaprakash, Cardiff University, USA

GWIC's mission is to facilitate international collaboration and cooperation in the construction, operation and use of the major gravitational wave detection facilities world-wide. It is associated with the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics as its Working Group WG.11. Through this association, GWIC is connected with the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (IUPAP's Affiliated Commission AC.2), its Commission C19 (Astrophysics), and another Working Group, the AstroParticle Physics International Committee (APPIC).