Sergei Kopeikin
| Sergei Kopeikin (Kopejkin) | |
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| Born |
April 10, 1956 Kashin, USSR |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Russian/American |
| Fields |
Theoretical Physics General relativity Gravitational Waves Cosmology Astrophysics Celestial mechanics Astrometry Geodesy |
| Institutions | University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Alma mater |
Moscow State University Sternberg Astronomical Institute |
| Doctoral advisors | Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich Leonid Petrovich Grishchuk |
| Doctoral students |
Oleg Doroshenko |
| Known for | Research in Relativity and Gravitation and for Tests of General Relativity including the speed of gravity, pulsar timing, gravitomagnetism, cosmology, VLBI and relativistic geodesy |
| Notes | |
Oleg Doroshenko
Alexander Rodin
Vladimir Potapov
Igor Vlasov
Pavel Korobkov
Specialty Chief Editor: Frontiers in Astrophysics and Space Sciences
Sergei Kopeikin (born April 10, 1956) is a USSR-born theoretical physicist presently living and working in the United States, where he holds the position of Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. He specializes in the theoretical and experimental study of gravity and general relativity. He is also an expert in the field of the astronomical reference frames and time metrology. His general relativistic theory of the Post-Newtonian reference frames which he had worked out along with Victor A. Brumberg, was adopted in 2000 by the resolutions of the International Astronomical Union as a standard for reduction of ground-based astronomical observation. In September 2002 he led a team which conducted a high-precision VLBI experiment to measure the fundamental speed of gravity. He is also involved in studies concerning the capabilities of the Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) technique to measure dynamical features of the General Theory of Relativity in the lunar motion. He has recently criticized the claims of other scientists concerning the possibility of LLR to measure the gravitomagnetic interaction. Prof. Kopeikin organized and chaired three international workshops on the advanced theory and model of the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment. The LLR workshops were held in the International Space Science Institute (Bern, Switzerland) in 2010-2012.
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