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)

Science with future Gravitational-wave Observatories: Cosmology

15 Dec 2022, 11:30
20m
Room R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R6

Adelaide Convention Centre

Invited talk Australia’s future in gravitational wave physics and astrophysics Focus Session

Speaker

Prof. Tamara Davis (University of Queensland)

Description

Gravitational waves offer a new precision tool for cosmology.  I will discuss their advantages over previous light-based techniques, and the major conundrums that gravitational waves will illuminate such as cosmological “tensions”, dark matter, and dark energy.

Author

Prof. Tamara Davis (University of Queensland)

Presentation materials