May 8 – 10, 2017
Discovery Building
US/Central timezone

Gravitational Waves and Prospects for Multimesenger Astronomy

May 8, 2017, 9:00 AM
30m
Forum (Discovery Building)

Forum

Discovery Building

330 N. Orchard Street, Madison, WI 53706
Results from LIGO- Barry Barish, Caltech Plenaries

Speaker

Prof. Barry Barish (California Institution of Technology)

Description

The recent observation in LIGO of gravitational waves from Black Hole binary mergers represents the beginning of a new way to study the universe. Prospects for detecting other gravitational wave sources and prospects for multi-messenger astronomy will be discussed.

Author

Prof. Barry Barish (California Institution of Technology)

Presentation materials