IET Wales South West presents:

Colliding Black Holes and Neutron Stars: Detecting Gravitational Waves with LIGO and Virgo More Events

Speaker:
Dr. Laura Nuttall from The University of Port
Date/Time:
Thursday 22nd November 2018 @ 6:30 PM
Venue:
Swansea University
Details:
"Measuring tiny ripples in space-time caused by passing gravitational waves from cataclysmic cosmic sources. Black hole mergers & neutron star collisions are the source of the 6 gravitational-wave signals detected to date.  Dr. Laura Nuttall, from The University of Portsmouth, will discuss the challenges of making these first detections, both from an instrumental and analysis viewpoint, and the exciting astrophysics that has been uncovered. "

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