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SUMMARY:The Dawn of a new Era: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational W
 aves - Dr Ulrich Sperhake
DTSTART:20201124T193000Z
DTEND:20201124T210000Z
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CONTACT:Hrachya Zakaryan
DESCRIPTION:The Nobel Prize winning detection of gravitational waves in 20
 15 by the LIGO detectors marks the dawn of a new era in observational astr
 onomy.  Gravitational waves provide a qualitatively new channel to observe
  compact objects and dynamical features in the earlier stages of the Unive
 rse. Several dozens of gravitational-wave events have been observed by the
  growing network of detectors over the past few years and have already pro
 vided new insights into gamma ray bursts\, the nature of gravity\, black-h
 ole populations and the cosmography of our Universe. In this talk\, we wil
 l review the basics of Einstein's general relativity and how gravitational
  waves arise as a prediction of his theory. We discuss the main sources of
  gravitational waves across the vast frequency spectrum and the detection 
 strategies employed for their observations\, and discuss the implications 
 of a selection of the most dramatic gravitational wave events for our unde
 rstanding of the physical laws that govern our universe.
LOCATION:Online (ask organizers for link)
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