Speaker:
Kip Thorne
Institution:
Caltech
Date:
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Time:
7:30 pm
Location:
UCI Barclay Theatre
Abstract:
There are two types of waves that can propagate across the universe: Electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves. Galileo initiated electromagnetic astronomy 400 years ago by pointing a telescope at the sky and discovering the moons of Jupiter. LIGO recently initiated gravitational astronomy by observing gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Thorne will describe this discovery, the 50 year effort that led to it, and the rich explorations that lie ahead.
Host:
James Bullock