11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

The Coming Decade of Gravitational wave detection and astronomy

15 Dec 2022, 09:45
45m
Plenary Halls A/C (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Plenary Halls A/C

Adelaide Convention Centre

Invited talk Plenary Plenary

Speaker

Prof. Rana Adhikari (Caltech)

Description

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has detected approximately 100 merging compact objects using gravitational wave detection. The next series of upgrades promises increasing our understanding of highly warped spacetime, nuclear astrophysics, and cosmology. To reach those astrophysical targets, the measurements will have to be improved through quantum metrology, advances in thin film materials, and AI driven feedback controls.

Author

Prof. Rana Adhikari (Caltech)

Presentation materials