Astbury Public Lecture - From Einstein to Gravitational Waves and Beyond
Date and time
Location
University of Victoria
3800 Finnerty Road
Bob Wright Centre, Room B150
Victoria, BC V8P 5C2
Canada
Description
Alan Astbury Public Lecture
Thursday, May 4, 2017
7:30 p.m. Bob Wright Centre, Room B150, University of Victoria
Dr. Barry Barish, California Institute of Technology
Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus
From Einstein to Gravitational Waves and Beyond
Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves one hundred years ago. They have been recently observed from pairs of merging Black Holes by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The physics of gravitational waves, the detection technique, the observations, including latest results, and implications will all be discussed.
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