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Refreshments start at 7 :00 PM - All Welcome! If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact Ms. Kyra Funk Phone: 613-533-2707 | Email: [email protected] SPEAKER : CAVE LECTURE 2017 ABSTRACT: More than hundred years ago, Einstein predicted that there were ripples in the fabric of space-time traveling at the speed of light: gravitational waves. On September 14 2015, the LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana registered for the first time ever a loud gravitational wave signal traveling through Earth, created more than a billion years ago by the merger of two black holes. A few months later, in December 2015, another signal, also from black holes, was detected. These observations marked the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy. We will describe the history and details of the observations, and the gravity-bright future of the field. Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy www.queensu.ca/physics image credit: LIGO/T. Pyle Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University Spokesperson for LIGO Scientific Collaboration Dr. Gabriela González TUESDAY JANUARY 17, 2017 @ 8:00 PM Biosciences Auditorium | Free Admission 116 Barrie (Arch St. Entrance & Barrie St. Entrance)
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Refreshments start at 7:00 PM - All Welcome!If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact Ms. Kyra Funk Phone: 613-533-2707 | Email: [email protected]
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cave lecture 2017
abstract:More than hundred years ago, Einstein predicted that there were ripples in the fabric of space-time traveling at the speed of light: gravitational waves. On September 14 2015, the LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, Louisiana registered for the first time ever a loud gravitational wave signal traveling through Earth, created more than a billion years ago by the merger of two black holes. A few months later, in December 2015, another signal, also from black holes, was detected. These observations marked the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy. We will describe the history and details of the observations, and the gravity-bright future of the field.
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State UniversitySpokesperson for LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Dr. Gabriela González
tuesday january 17, 2017 @ 8:00 pM Biosciences Auditorium | Free Admission 116 Barrie (Arch St. Entrance & Barrie St. Entrance)
