Conveners
(W2-6) Gravitational Waves and Gravitational Experiments - DTP / Ondes gravitationnelles et expériences gravitationnelles - DPT
- Harald Pfeiffer (CITA)
Dr
Kipp Cannon
(Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
18/06/2014, 13:45
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
In 2015 the first Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave antennas will begin observing the sky, followed shortly by Advanced VIRGO, and in the years thereafter by KAGRA and LIGO-India. What might this international network see? To be detectable, gravitational-wave sources must radiate enormous amounts of power, and the most promising are short lived, cataclysmic, events: the collisions of neutron...
Dr
Riccardo Bassiri
(E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University)
18/06/2014, 14:15
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
With the second generation of gravitational wave detectors being built, many researchers within the gravitational wave community are now considering the technological advances needed to build the next generation of detectors. The advances necessary to make even more sensitive detectors cover such diverse fields as materials science, optics, seismology, metrology, and much more. This talk...
Prof.
Scott Menary
(York University)
18/06/2014, 14:45
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
The first stage of the ALPHA experiment succeeded in producing and trapping antihydrogen for long periods of time (minutes) as well as making the first (albeit low accuracy) microwave spectroscopy measurements. During the present LHC shutdown the apparatus was upgraded (so-called ALPHA-2) to allow precision spectroscopy to test CPT. We are now looking beyond that to look at another fundamental...
