Experimental Seminar

Current and future gravitational-wave discoveries with LIGO

Name: Current and future gravitational-wave discoveries with LIGO
Start: 2016-02-24T15:30:00-08:00
End: 2016-02-24T16:30:00-08:00
Location: SLAC

by Prof. Joshua Smith (California State University, Fullerton)

Wednesday 24 Feb 2016, 15:30 → 16:30 US/Pacific

Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Kavli Auditorium

SLAC

Description

On September 14, 2015 the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves from the coalescence of a binary system of black holes. I will give an overview of gravitational waves and LIGO, describe the astrophysical searches being performed on its data, and discuss this first discovery and prospects for future gravitational-wave observations.