Contact information
Name:
Scott Shelley
Phone:
6103305223
Email:
shelleys@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Friday, April 14, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where:
Hugel Science Center, Room 100
Presenter:
Dr. Ryan Fisher, Syracuse University
Price:
18042
Speaker: Ryan Fisher, Research Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Title: The Initial Detections of Gravitational Waves with LIGO
Abstract: I will describe the first two observations of gravitational waves from the mergers of binary black holes made with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). These observations were both made during the first observing run ‘O1’ of the Advanced LIGO detector network, in the last 4 months of 2015. This talk will cover the basics of gravitational wave generation and detection, and the ongoing and future goals of laser-based gravitational wave observations.
Sponsored by:
Physics Department