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DTSTART:20200917T193000Z
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87918166465
SUMMARY:PGSC Seminar\, Rob Morgan\, Physics PhD Graduate Student
DESCRIPTION:Type of event: PGSC phenomeNal Open Graduate Seminars
\nTitle: How to Find the Sources of Gravitational Waves and Astrophysi
cal Neutrinos
\nAbstract: Cataclysmic astronomical explosions send
invisible messengers to Earth\, such as extremely high-energy neutrin
os and gravitational waves\, that are detected all the time by instrum
ents like IceCube and LIGO. The challenge in doing science with these
messengers lies in the reality that these instruments cannot pinpoint
the exact object in space that exploded: they can at best localize the
explosion to an area on the sky roughly equivalent to the width of a
couple of your fingers held at arm’s length. The task of finding the
exact source of the messenger falls to the electromagnetic astronomic
al community. In my work\, I help operate and process images from the
most powerful optical telescope ever built in real-time to search for
light from these explosions. In this talk\, I’ll convey the thrill (
anxiety) of working in real-time\, overview the process of finding the
sources of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves using machin
e learning\, and outline the vast array of scientific analyses that ca
n be done once these sources are found.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=6015
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