Frontiers in Photonics: David Reitze

Professor David Reitze from the LIGO Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology presents:
LIGO: Using Really Big Interferometers to Search for the Most Violent Astrophysical Events in the Universe

“LIGO is currently undergoing a complete upgrade.  Advanced LIGO is designed to be ten times more sensitive than initial LIGO, the first generation of gravitational wave interferometers, and will open the era of detecting gravitational wave emitted from the most violent events in the universe.  In this presentation, I’ll give a primer on gravitational waves and why they are interesting and difficult to detect, discuss how we use interferometry to detect them, provide an overview of Advanced LIGO, and discuss its status and the prospects for gravitational wave detection and astronomy in the second half of this decade.”

When: Thursday 24, April at 4pm

Where: Natural Sciences 2, room 2201

You don’t want to miss it!

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