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VAMOS Seminar: Nergis Mavalvala (MIT)


Listening to gravitational waves above the quantum din

 The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015. Since then dozens more astrophysical observations have been confirmed. To detect these spacetime ripples requires measurement with sub-attometer precision. I will describe the quantum technologies that make such a measurement possible and enable present and future discoveries.

You can attend live on Zoom at this link or watch live or asynchronously later on the VAMOS YouTube channel.