11:00 am
In-Person and Virtual Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 106
Join us for a free public lecture series celebrating 50 Years of Discovery at the Enrico Fermi Institute of UChicago. Attendees can join in person or virtually.
Prof. Daniel Holz presents: A decade of gravitational-wave science
Ten years after the first direct detection of a gravitational-wave event, we now have a catalog of a few hundred gravitational-wave events. I will give an overview of some of the highlights from this catalog, including some unusually loud, and some unusually massive, sources. I will also discuss some of the things we’ve learned from the population, including clues as to how the universe makes binary black hole systems, as well as novel cosmological probes.