School's Weekly Seminar

Gravitational waves and their detection in LIGO

by Dr Javad Taghizadeh Firouzjaee (School Of Astronomy (IPM))

→ Asia/Tehran
Accelerator Seminar Room (Larak)

Accelerator Seminar Room

Larak

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Larak Garden, Artesh Hwy, Tehran, Iran
Description


Undoubtedly the LOGO discovery of the gravitational wave is one of the most heuristic scientific event in the 21st century. In this talk after introducing the gravitational wave in general relativity we introduce the gravitational wave detectors specially The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Furthermore we discuss the theoretical advances after this discovery..