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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rainer Weiss\nhosted by Robert Seiringer\nAbstract: Th
 e first detection of gravitational waves was made in September 2015 with t
 he measurement of the coalescence of two ~30 solar mass black holes at a d
 istance of about 1 billion light years from Earth. The talk will begin wit
 h some history and basic ideas of gravitational waves. Then a review of mo
 re recent measurements of black hole events as well as the first detection
  of the coalescence of two neutron stars and the beginning of multi-messen
 ger astrophysics will be provided. The talk will end with a discussion of 
 some prospects for the field.BioRainer Weiss was born Sept 29\,1932\, in B
 erlin\, Germany. He received his PhD in 1962 at the Massachusetts Institu
 te of Technology. He was a member of the MIT Physics faculty from 1964-20
 01 and he received the title of professor emeritus in 2001. His primary ar
 eas of research are atomic clocks\, cosmic background radiation measuremen
 ts and gravitational wave detection.  In 2017 Rainer Weiss was awarded th
 e Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Barry Barish and Kip Thorn "for deci
 sive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitation
 al waves".[1] (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2017/press-releas
 e/)
LOCATION:Online\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:arinya.eller@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Rainer Weiss: The beginnings of gravitational wave astronomy: curre
 nt state and future
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/3127
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