2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Session

Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture | Conférence commémorative publique Herzberg (Nergis Mavalvala, MIT)

M-HERZ

11 Jun 2018, 19:30

Dalhousie University

Conveners

Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture | Conférence commémorative publique Herzberg (Nergis Mavalvala, MIT)

• Stephen Pistorius (CCMB, University of Manitoba)

2244. The Warped Universe: the one hundred year quest to discover Einstein’s gravitational waves

Prof. Nergis Mavalvala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11/06/2018, 19:30

Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)

The recent announcements of the first ever detections of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars have launched a new era of gravitational wave astrophysics. Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein a hundred years earlier. I will describe the science, technology, and human story behind these discoveries that provide a completely new window into some of the most...