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Overview

David J. Weir is affiliated with the Helsinki Institute of Physics in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions in subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Oceanography.

The main topics addressed by their research include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Particle Physics theoretical and experimental studies, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions, and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates.

Some of their recent publications are as follows:

  • Detecting gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA: an update (2020), Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Vorticity, Kinetic Energy, and Suppressed Gravitational-Wave Production in Strong First-Order Phase Transitions (2020), Physical Review Letters
  • Gravitational waves from vacuum first-order phase transitions. II. From thin to thick walls (2021), Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Erratum: Shape of the acoustic gravitational wave power spectrum from a first order phase transition [Phys. Rev. D 96, 103520 (2017)] (2020), Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Detection of early-universe gravitational-wave signatures and fundamental physics (2022), General Relativity and Gravitation

David J. Weir frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Kari Rummukainen
  • Mark Hindmarsh
  • Oliver Gould
  • Lauri Niemi
  • Riikka Seppä

Their research has been published in multiple scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Physical Review Letters

Best Publications

  • Numerical simulations of acoustically generated gravitational waves at a first order phase transition

    Mark Hindmarsh;Mark Hindmarsh;Stephan J. Huber;Kari Rummukainen;David J. Weir

  • Gravitational waves from the sound of a first order phase transition

    Mark Hindmarsh;Mark Hindmarsh;Stephan J. Huber;Kari Rummukainen;David J. Weir

  • The Convergence of Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammar Formalisms

    Aravind Joshi;K. Vijay-Shanker;David Weir

  • Shape of the acoustic gravitational wave power spectrum from a first order phase transition

    Mark Hindmarsh;Mark Hindmarsh;Stephan J. Huber;Kari Rummukainen;David J. Weir

  • Characterising measures of lexical distributional similarity

    Julie Weeds;David Weir;Diana McCarthy

  • CHARACTERIZING STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS PRODUCED BY VARIOUS GRAMMATICAL FORMALISMS

    K. Vijay-Shanker;David J. Weir;Aravind K. Joshi

  • The equivalence of four extensions of context-free grammars

    K. Vijay-Shanker;D. J. Weir

  • Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification Using a Sentiment Sensitive Thesaurus

    D. Bollegala;D. Weir;J. Carroll

  • Gravitational waves from vacuum first-order phase transitions: From the envelope to the lattice

    Daniel Cutting;Daniel Cutting;Mark Hindmarsh;David J. Weir

  • Co-occurrence Retrieval: A Flexible Framework for Lexical Distributional Similarity

    Julie Weeds;David Weir

  • Learning to Distinguish Hypernyms and Co-Hyponyms

    Julie Weeds;Daoud Clarke;Jeremy Reffin;David Weir

  • Class-based probability estimation using a semantic hierarchy

    Stephen Clark;David Weir

  • Vorticity, kinetic energy, and suppressed gravitational wave production in strong first order phase transitions

    Daniel Cutting;Daniel Cutting;Mark Hindmarsh;Mark Hindmarsh;David J. Weir;David J. Weir

  • Variational matrix product ansatz for dispersion relations

    Jutho Haegeman;Bogdan Pirvu;David J. Weir;J. Ignacio Cirac

  • Using Multiple Sources to Construct a Sentiment Sensitive Thesaurus for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification

    Danushka Bollegala;David Weir;John Carroll

  • A general framework for distributional similarity

    Julie Weeds;David Weir

  • Gravitational waves from vacuum first-order phase transitions. II. From thin to thick walls

    Daniel Cutting;Elba Granados Escartin;Mark Hindmarsh;Mark Hindmarsh;David J. Weir;David J. Weir

  • Parsing some constrained grammar formalisms

    K. Vijay-Shanker;David J. Weir

  • D-Tree Grammars

    Owen Rambow;K. Vijay-Shanker;David Weir

  • Revisiting the envelope approximation: Gravitational waves from bubble collisions

    David J. Weir

  • A geometric hierarchy beyond context-free languages

    David J. Weir

  • POLYNOMIAL TIME PARSING OF COMBINATORY CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS

    K. Vijay-Shanker;David J. Weir

  • D-tree substitution grammars

    Owen Rambow;David Weir;K. Vijay-Shanker

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Vijay-Shanker
K. Vijay-Shanker University of Delaware
John M. Carroll
John M. Carroll University of Sussex
Aravind K. Joshi
Aravind K. Joshi University of Pennsylvania
Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf
Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf University of Massachusetts Amherst
Carl M. Bender
Carl M. Bender Washington University in St. Louis
Owen Rambow
Owen Rambow Stony Brook University
Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark Cambridge Quantum Computing
Danushka Bollegala
Danushka Bollegala University of Liverpool
Diana McCarthy
Diana McCarthy University of Cambridge
Maura Conway
Maura Conway Dublin City University

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