Bernard Schutz
Data Innovation Institute, Cardiff University, UK, and Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute, Germany
Date
26 October 2016,
Host
Philippe Jetzer
Title
The Amazing Start of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Abstract
The detection by LIGO of a burst of gravitational waves from two merging black holes opened the field of gravitational wave astronomy in a spectacular way. Subsequent detections have verified that the population of binary black holes in the Universe is both large and involves more massive objects than had previously been expected. I will review the science we now have and our expectations and challenges as this field expands, with more detectors and into new frequency bands.
Bernard Schutz (left) with Philippe Jetzer