Speaker
Prof.
Alessandra Buonanno
Description
In the next 5 years, ground-based interferometers such as advanced
LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA, are likely to provide the first direct detections of
gravitational waves. This will constitute a major scientific discovery, as
it will permit a new kind of observation of the cosmos, quite different from
today's electromagnetic and particle observations. In this talk I will review
the current effort at developing accurate waveform models, so that we can
take full advantage of the sensitivity of the detectors and extract unique
information upon detection of gravitational waves from coalescing binary
systems composed of black holes and/or neutron stars.
