Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 13th November 2025 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: Meeting Room

Ed Daw - Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector     

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Speaker: Dr Ed Daw

Ed Daw is a professor in Physics at the University of Sheffield.

He's worked on many aspects of 'the Dark universe', including searches for two kinds of dark matter, axions and WIMPs, and the quest for direct detection of gravitational waves with the LIGO instruments, an effort which he joined in 1997.

He leads the University of Sheffield gravitational wave research group, which was a member of the team that announced the first and second direct detection's of gravitational waves from black hole binaries first discoveries were in 2015 (for black holes) and 2017 (for neutron stars)