Seminar @ DF - Wed 6 Apr 4.30 pm - A. Taracchini - "Observation of gravitational waves"

[Rosita Glavina]

  We are pleased to announce the seminar @ DF UniTs:
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Andrea Taracchini

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

"Observation of gravitational waves from the dynamical strong-field 
regime of general relativity"

Wednesday, April 6 - 4:30 pm
Department of Physics - University of Trieste
Lecture Room A, F building, via Valerio 2

ABSTRACT:
The direct detection of gravitational waves from a black-hole binary 
merger by advanced LIGO represents a paramount achievement that was made 
possible by the unique combination of improved experimental techniques 
and deep understanding of the two-body dynamics in general relativity. I 
will present the main ideas behind the method of detection and discuss 
the role of waveform modeling. I will also review what we can learn from 
this detection in the way of constraints on astrophysics and tests of 
general relativity.​
Andrea Taracchini, a former student of our Physics Department, is a 
co-author of the paper about gravitational waves that recently appeared.
Andrea was awarded both the bachelor (2006) and the master (2008) 
degrees in physics at the University of Trieste. He then moved to the 
University of Maryland for a PhD on the numeric simulation of binary 
black-hole systems.
Since September 2014 he holds a post-doc position at the Max Planck 
Institute for Gravitational Physics, Postdam, Germany, and is part of 
the LIGO team.

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