"Listening to  the Universe with Lasers" will be presented by Madeline Wade, assistant professor of physics at Kenyon College.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 4:35PM TO 5:45PM
WRIGHT LABORATORY OF PHYSICS, WRIGHT LECTURE HALL, W201
Abstract: The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) has been making groundbreaking discoveries since the moment it turned on in 2015. Â The LIGO and Virgo Scientific Collaborations have published results for 11 total gravitational wave detections. Â They have detected gravitational waves from ten merging black hole systems and one merging neutron star system.
In this talk, Prof. Wade will give an overview of gravitational-wave physics, the LIGO detectors, and give highlights of current discoveries.Â
Background reading:Â Bassan, Massimo, editor. Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves : Lectures from the First VESF School on Advanced Detectors for Gravitational Waves. 2014, e-book accessible from Springer on the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center.
