STARTING SHORTLY: ICTP COLLOQUIUM BY PROF. KIP S. THORNE AT 16:30

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*INVITATION TO ICTP COLLOQUIUM BY PROF. KIP S. THORNE TODAY AT 16:30
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You are all very warmly invited to the ICTP Colloquium by Prof. Kip S. 
Thorne, entitled "Geometrodynamics: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved 
Spacetime", to take place in the Budinich Lecture Hall, Leonardo 
Building, today at 16:30

Kip Thorne  was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA, and is currently the 
Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus at the California 
Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 1967 to 2009, he led a Caltech 
research group working in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational 
physics, with emphasis on relativistic stars, black holes, and 
especially gravitational waves. Fifty three students received their 
PhD’s under his mentorship, and he mentored roughly sixty postdoctoral 
students. He co-authored the textbooks Gravitation (1973, with Charles 
Misner and John Archibald Wheeler) and Modern Classical Physics (2017, 
with Roger Blandford), and was sole author of Black Holes and Time 
Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy. Thorne was cofounder (with Rainer 
Weiss and Ronald Drever) of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational 
Wave Observatory) Project. LIGO - in the hands of a younger generation 
of physicists - made the breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves 
arriving at Earth from the distant universe on September 14, 2015. For 
his contributions to LIGO and to gravitational wave research, Thorne has 
shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, and other major awards. In 2009 
Thorne stepped down from his Caltech professorship to ramp up a new 
career at the interface between art and science, including the movie 
Interstellar (which sprang from a Treatment he co-authored, and for 
which he was Executive Producer and Science Advisor).

*Abstract:* A half century ago, John Wheeler challenged his students and 
colleagues to explore geometrodynamics by asking, how does the curvature 
of spacetime behave when roiled in a storm, like a storm at sea with 
crashing waves? We tried to explore this, and failed. Success eluded us 
until two new tools became available: computer simulations, and 
gravitational wave observations. Thorne will describe what these have 
begun to teach us, and he will offer a vision for the future of 
geometrodynamics.

More information is available at: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8478/

The Colloquium will be livestreamed at ictp.it/livestream

Light refreshments will be served after the talk.

Looking forward to seeing you on this special occasion.

Office of the Director, ICTP

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