Gravitational waves discovered: how did the experiment at LIGO actually work?

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 7th July 2016 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: swmcmeet

Check this link for details of Ed's talk.

https://theconversation.com/gravitational-waves-discovered-how-did-the-experiment-at-ligo-actually-work-54510

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)

Ed Daw

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