Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Amount

$2,550,000.00

Award Date

6/09/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Research and development for LIGO will be carried out in four main areas. First, work will be done on commissioning of enhanced LIGO during 2009?2010 and on risk mitigation for the input optics of Advanced LIGO. Second,several burst searches with coherent