Gravitational Waves
"The first direct detection of gravitational waves is聽now widely expected to be announced on 11 February聽by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Using LIGO's twin giant detectors 鈥� one in Livingston, Louisiana, and the other in Hanford, Washington 鈥� researchers are said to have measured ripples in space-time produced by a collision between two black holes." ()
, Research associate in Astrophysics, Department of Physics,聽捆绑SM社区
In his research, he聽uses the astounding timing precision of pulsars to perform the most demanding聽tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity, constrain the evolutionary histories of compact binaries聽that are formed from high-mass stars, assemble an array of millisecond pulsars as a聽Galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector, and聽search for even more pulsars.
(514) 398-1912.聽rferdman [at] physics [dot] mcgill [dot] ca. He's not available Wednesday聽between 1:00-2:00 PM,聽Thursday between 10:30 AM and 2:00 PM, and Friday between 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM.聽(English, French but not for TV)