SISSA Colloquium by Nobel Laureate Barry Barish | Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves - 27 January 6.00 p.m.

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*SISSA Colloquia | Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves *
Monday 27 January 2020, 6.00 pm
P. Budinich Main Lecture Hall, SISSA, Via Bonomea 265

Professor Barry C. Barish from Caltech and UC Riverside will be the 
featured speaker for the first SISSA /Colloquium/ of the year. In 2017, 
Professor Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with 
Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO 
detector and the observation of gravitational waves."

The discovery of gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein in 1916, is 
enabling both important tests of the theory of general relativity, and 
the birth of a new astronomy. Modern astronomy, using all types of 
electromagnetic radiation, is giving us an amazing understanding of the 
complexities of the universe, and how it has evolved.  Now, 
gravitational waves and neutrinos are beginning to give us the 
opportunity to pursue some of the same astrophysical phenomena in very 
different ways, as well as to observe phenomena that cannot be studied 
with electromagnetic radiation.  The detection of gravitational waves 
and the emergence and prospects for this exciting new science will be 
explored.