FREE LECTURE:
  Discussions on New Discoveries in Gravitational Wave Search 
  - This lecture will discuss the progress of gravitational wave discoveries.
		
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:00 - Alexander Lecture Theatre  (Ground floor, Arts Building)
		
Prof Linqing Wen, Dr Eric Howell, Prof Chunnong Zhao, Dr Qi Chu
The first detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes was
made in September 2015. This not only confirmed Einstein’s 1915
general theory of relativity, but also marked the beginning of a new era
of gravitational wave astronomy. In recognition of the promising
revolutionary effect of this discovery in astrophysics, in October 3,
2017, the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the three pioneers
in the field, Rainer Weiss (MIT), Kip Thorne and Barry Barish (Caltech).
Since the first discovery, three more confirmed detections of
gravitational waves from binary black holes have been announced. In
September 2017, for the first time, the Virgo detector in Italy and the
two LIGO observatories in US made a joint three-detector detection. On
October 16th, a new breakthrough is to be announcement that is
considered by many as revolutionary as the first detection.

The three groups in the UWA node of Australian Research Council Centre
of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) contributed to
these discoveries ranging from instrumentation, signal processing,
theory, to electromagnetic follow up observations. This lecture will
discuss the progress of gravitational wave discoveries with focus on the
new event as well as the UWA contributions.

The speakers will be joined by Dr. Clancy James, Prof. David Coward and
Prof. Chris Power, for a panel discussion.
		
For more information:
  Ruby Chan
  ruby.chan@uwa.edu.au
  6488 1170

Starts       : Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:00
Ends         : Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:00
		
Last Updated : Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:27