Speaker
Prof.
Sheila Rowan
Description
This talk will cover the status of activities for the construction and
commissioning of the imminent generation of the gravitational GW
detectors due to start first science runs next year. It will focus on
the status of and plans for the Advanced LIGO observatories (in Hanford
Washington, and Livingston Louisiana, USA) and Advanced Virgo (near
Cascina, Italy), and their operation in the global network.
