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