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LOCATION:4421 Sterling Hall\, Coffee and Cookies 3:30 PM\, Talk at 3:4
 5 PM
SUMMARY:'A Walk on the Warped Side:  Searches for Gravitational Waves 
 from Compact Objects in Advanced LIGO'\, Astronomy Colloquium\, Sarah 
 Caudill\, UW Milwaukee - Physics Dept
DESCRIPTION:The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Obser
 vatory (LIGO) recently confirmed one of the last predictions of Albert
  Einstein's General Theory of Relativity\, that violent astrophysical 
 collisions create ripples in the fabric of spacetime. On September 14\
 , 2015\, a gravitational wave signal from the collision of two massive
  black holes reached the Earth after traveling 1.3 billion years. The 
 detection of this signal marks the beginning of gravitational wave ast
 ronomy and promises many more exciting discoveries in the near future.
  In this talk\, I will discuss the methods that LIGO uses to detect th
 e collisions of binary compact objects containing neutron stars and/or
  black holes and report on the most recent results from these searches
 . Additionally\, I will discuss what we can learn from these collision
 s regarding the nature of spacetime.<br>
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URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4142
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