When:
Friday, October 16, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, L211, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact:
Pamela Villalovoz
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Group: Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Category: Academic
Title: The Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves
Speaker: Marcelle Soares-Santos, (Fermilab)
Abstract: DES is an ongoing imaging sky survey, the largest such survey to date. Its main science goal is to shed light onto dark energy by making precision measurements of the expansion history and growth of structure in the universe. In this talk I present our latest results and introduce a new DES initiative: searches for optical counterpart of gravitational wave events.
Host: Michael Schmitt
Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, colloquium