Speaker
Description
Detection of gravitational waves from mergers of two black holes is one
of the greatest discoveries of this century. It will open a new window on the Universe.
I shall describe observations of these signals in the data of LIGO detectors
by consortium of LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration.
I shall present several aspects of this dicovery: gravitational wave detectors,
signal modeling and data analysis. I shall mention the follow-up observations of this
event by radio, optical, near-infrared, X-ray, and gamma-ray wavelengths
with ground- and space-based facilities.
I shall describe consequences of this result for physics of fundamental interactions.