When:
Friday, March 4, 2016
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: LIGO discovery of a Binary Black Hole Merger
Speaker: Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Abstract: I will review the analysis of the first Advanced LIGO observations that launched the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with the discovery of the GW150914 merger: data search, signal characterization, measurements of source properties. I will discuss how this observation enables the first tests of general relativity in the strong-field regime and what this discovery implies for black-hole astrophysics.
Host: Andre de Gouvea
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Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, colloquium