Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves - From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves - From the Big Bang to Black Holes

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences via YouTube Direct link

Introduction

2 of 52

2 of 52

Introduction

Class Central Classrooms beta

YouTube videos curated by Class Central.

Classroom Contents

Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves - From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Automatically move to the next video in the Classroom when playback concludes

  1. 1 16:00 to Thursday, 11 January 2018
  2. 2 Introduction
  3. 3 ICTS Vishveshwara Lecture
  4. 4 Honor of Professor C.V. Vishveshwara
  5. 5 Introduction to Speaker
  6. 6 Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: from the Big Bang to Black Holes
  7. 7 1.3 Billion Years Ago
  8. 8 LIGO: Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detector
  9. 9 How Did We Get Here? my parochial view
  10. 10 Albert Einstein, 1916
  11. 11 1960s Joseph Weber University of Maryland
  12. 12 Charles Miner - Theory Group - 1960s U. Maryland
  13. 13 Kip, Theory Group Caltech
  14. 14 Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves Contrasted
  15. 15 Rai Weiss - MIT
  16. 16 "Not promising"
  17. 17 1973-75 Conversations with Weiss and Braginsky Studied Weiss's 1972 Paper
  18. 18 Improvement on Weiss's Design
  19. 19 1976-78: Decision to Create Gravitational Wave Experiment at Caltech
  20. 20 1978 - Workshop on Sources of GWs
  21. 21 1980 - 83 Caltech: 40 meter prototype
  22. 22 1980 - 83 MIT: Feasibility Study for kilometer scale interferometers
  23. 23 LIGO 1984-87 Troika: Weiss, Drever, Thorne
  24. 24 1989 Construction Proposal
  25. 25 Barry Barish
  26. 26 on the "theory" front:
  27. 27 September 14, 2015 - Advanced LIGO detectors preparing for first search - First Signal Came In!
  28. 28 Reported Black Holes Mergers
  29. 29 GW 170817: Binary Neutron Star 1.7 Sec Later: Gamma Ray Burst
  30. 30 INDIGO: Crucial for Multimessenger Ay
  31. 31 INDIGO
  32. 32 Advanced LIGO Photos
  33. 33 Advanced LIGO at Design Sensitivity
  34. 34 Other Sources for Advanced LIGO
  35. 35 Beyond Advanced LIGO - if only limited by technology
  36. 36 Gravitational Windows
  37. 37 Gravitational Wave Periods
  38. 38 Exploring Black Holes with Gravitational Waves
  39. 39 Black Hole: Made from Warped Spacetime
  40. 40 LISA - Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
  41. 41 Mapping a Black Hole
  42. 42 Orbits Close to Black Hole
  43. 43 What if the Central Body is Not a Black Hole?
  44. 44 Dynamics of Spacetime Geometry for Colliding Black Holes
  45. 45 SXS Simulation of GW150914
  46. 46 The Birth of the Universe
  47. 47 Birth of Fundamental Forces
  48. 48 Primordial Gravitational Waves UHF Band: 100 million year period
  49. 49 Measure Primordial GWs at Periods of Seconds
  50. 50 Galileo 400 years ago
  51. 51 LIGO 2 years ago
  52. 52 Q&A

Never Stop Learning.

Get personalized course recommendations, track subjects and courses with reminders, and more.

Someone learning on their laptop while sitting on the floor.