Speaker
G. Wanner
Description
Gravitational waves are a hot topic, after their first detection by the LIGO observatories in 2015 and the nobel prize award in 2017.
While the success story of the ground based detectors continues, the scientific community is busy preparing the next steps in gravitational wave observation. One of these next steps is launching a space based gravitational wave observatory: LISA, the “Laser Interferometer Space Antenna”, which is currently planned to launch in 2034. In this talk, I will give an introduction to LISA as well as to gravitational waves, their observation from ground and space, and what we gain by doing both.
