Seminar 10 Years of Gravitational Waves

In 2015, a signal lasting less than a second changed forever our way of observing the Universe. Ten years after that first detection, the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaboration has reported nearly two hundred confidently detected mergers of black holes and neutron stars. This special lecture will retrace the journey from the first discovery to the current frontiers of gravitational-wave science, exploring the instrumentation, detection techniques, astrophysical sources, and their use as cosmological probes.

Speaker:
Elena Cuoco (University of Bologna);

Massimiliano Razzano (University of Pisa);

Tommaso Chiarusi (INFN Bologna);

Helios Vocca (University of Perugia);

Simone Dall’Osso (University of Bologna);

Nicola Borghi (University of Bologna)

Organized by:
The Bologna Virgo Group

In collaboration with:
INFN

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