*[February 2013] I accepted a faculty position, and will be an assistant professor in the Physics Department at West Virginia University starting this Fall.  I’ll be hiring a postdoc (hopefully one this year, and another next year), so please find the job ad here if you’re interested.  Also, I’ll be happy to take on a few students once I arrive in the Fall, so please feel free to stop by my office and discuss possibilities.

*[December 2012] I submitted 5 papers in the last 3 weeks with various collaborators, definitely a personal best:

-L. Hui, STM, and I. Yang, Binary Systems as Resonance Detectors for Gravitational Waves

-STM, Black Holes are neither Particle Accelerators nor Dark Matter Probes, accepted to PRL!

-W. East, STM, J. Levin, and F. Pretorius, Observing complete gravitational wave signals from    dynamical capture binaries

-STM, J. Ostriker, and F. Pretorius for 2: Gravitational waves and stalled satellites from massive galaxy mergers at z < 1 and The imminent detection of gravitational waves from massive black-hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays

*[May 2012] I was the lead organizer for a conference, Connecting the Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Skies in the Era of Advanced LIGO.  It brought together the communities of gravitational wave observers/theorists and observational astronomers, and was a big success by all accounts (that I heard, at least).

*[December 2011] I presented a novel mission concept to NASA for an alternative to LISA at the recent Gravitational Wave Mission Concept workshop, Geostationary Antenna for Disturbance-Free Laser Interferometry (GADFLI) - if you’re wondering, Wikipedia defines a gadfly as “a person who upsets the status quo by posing upsetting or novel questions, or just being an irritant.”  Hopefully this concept is the right balance of novel question and irritant.

*[November 2011] My paper, “Electromagnetic extraction of energy from black hole-neutron star binaries”, which proposes a completely new class of gamma-ray bursts, was  published in the Astrophysical Journal: Sean T. McWilliams and Janna Levin 2011 Astrophys. J. 742 90

*[September 2011] My paper, “Sky localization of complete inspiral-merger-ringdown signals for nonspinning massive black hole binaries”, was published in Physical Review: Sean T. McWilliams et al., 2011 Phys. Rev. D 84 064003

*[June 2011] My invited review article, “The Status of Black-Hole Binary Merger Simulations
with Numerical Relativity”, was published in Classical and Quantum Gravity: Sean T McWilliams 2011 Class. Quantum Grav. 28 134001