Over the last few years, gravitational wave detectors have rapidly transformed from fundamental physics experiments to astrophysical observatories. The groundbreaking discovery of two merging black holes was followed by 10 more confirmed binary black hole mergers, 2 neutron star mergers, and dozens of additional events, which are still being analyzed.
Colloquium
Friday, April 10, 2020 - 3:10pm to 4:00pm
· Colloquium
Ming Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 3:10pm
· Colloquium
Francois Foucard, University of New Hampshire
Friday, November 15, 2019 - 3:10pm to 4:00pm
· Colloquium
Dr. Ashley Perko, Dartmouth College
The standard paradigm for producing dark matter in the early universe is thermal production, which freezes out at a constant abundance when the interaction rate with the Standard Model becomes slower than the Hubble expansion.
Friday, November 8, 2019 - 3:10pm to 4:00pm
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Dr. Lionel London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The years following the LIGO-Virgo collaboration’s September 14th, 2015 breakthrough detection of gravitational waves have been filled by marked advances in our ability to detect and infer the source parameters of merging binary black hole systems.