'Gravitational waves' presentation slideshows

GRID (European Scientific Computing infrastructure)

GRID (European Scientific Computing infrastructure). . CERN. CERN currently comprises 20 European Member States:

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15.1 Tenets of General Relativity 15.2 Tests of General Relativity 15.3 Gravitational Waves

CHAPTER 15 General Relativity. 15.1 Tenets of General Relativity 15.2 Tests of General Relativity 15.3 Gravitational Waves 15.4 Black Holes and Neutron Stars. Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. Albert Einstein. 15.1: Tenets of General Relativity.

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Relativistic Astrophysics: I. Relativistic Astrophysics Fundamentals II. Specific Relativistic Astrophysics Problems

Relativistic Astrophysics: I. Relativistic Astrophysics Fundamentals II. Specific Relativistic Astrophysics Problems. David Meier Jet Propulsion Laboratory Caltech. Introductory Remarks. Purpose of these two lectures To introduce or review relativity and its use in astrophysics

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Cosmic Microwave Background & Primordial Gravitational Waves

Jun-Qing Xia Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, IHEP Planck Member CHEP, PKU, April 3, 2014. Cosmic Microwave Background & Primordial Gravitational Waves. BICEP2 Paper (arXiv:1403.3985). Tensor Modes Detection by BICEP2. (Ade et al., 1403.3985).

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What can we learn from CMB in the Planck area? (Planck is going to be launch May 6)

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Numerical Cosmology: Building a Dynamical Universe

Numerical Cosmology: Building a Dynamical Universe. David Garrison University of Houston Clear Lake. The Beginning. Where the Heck did all that come from?. First Observatories. New Technologies. Putting it all together. Not Everyone Understands the Theory.

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Searching for Gravitational Waves with LIGO, GEO and Einstein@home

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Black Hole Collisions

Black Hole Collisions. Frans Pretorius Princeton University Inaugural Conference of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos August 9, 2007. Outline. Motivation: why explore black hole collisions? Anatomy of a merger

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Challenges of Relativistic Jets, Cracow, June 29, 2006

The Evolution of Extragalactic Radio Sources Greg Taylor (UNM), Steve Allen (KIPAC), Andy Fabian (IoA), Jeremy Sanders (IoA), Robert Dunn (IoA), Gianfranco Gentile (UNM), Lindsey Pollack (UCSC), Nicole Gugliucci (UVA), Cristina Rodriguez (UNM).

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Dennis Ugolini, Trinity University for the LIGO Science Collaboration SMU Physics Seminar March 29, 2010 Document no. LI

News from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Dennis Ugolini, Trinity University for the LIGO Science Collaboration SMU Physics Seminar March 29, 2010 Document no. LIGO-G100214. Gravitational Waves.

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L1: The Cosmic Microwave Background & the Thermal History of the Universe

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Gravitational wave observations as a probe for strong gravity

Gravitational wave observations as a probe for strong gravity . Peter R. Saulson Syracuse University Spokesperson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Outline. Gravitational waves and gravitational wave detectors Black holes as astrophysical objects Gravitational waves as a probe of black holes

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Transients in the Local Universe

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Einstein Polarization Interferometer for Cosmology ( EPIC )

Einstein Polarization Interferometer for Cosmology ( EPIC ). Peter Timbie University of Wisconsin - Madison. Beyond Einstein SLAC May 12-14 2004. EPIC Mission Concept Study Team. CMB Power Spectrum. C Farese et al.(2003). C. POLAR Upper Limit. Z re ~ 30.

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Announcements

Announcements. Projects are graded! Almost all were quite good--congratulations! Test next week (all about stars) Second project is due in three weeks. So many things I would have done, But clouds got in my way. --Joni Mitchell. Black Holes. 10 November 2006. Today :.

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Searching for gravitational waves with lasers

Searching for gravitational waves with lasers. Rick Savage Caltech LIGO Hanford Observatory - Richland, WA. Black holes and time warps. Sept 1974 - transferred to UCLA in Physics Jan 1975 - started working for F. Chen and N. Luhmann as undergraduate lab assistant (with Doug Cook)

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Astroparticle Physics Key Issues

Astroparticle Physics Key Issues. Jan Kuijpers Dep. of Astrophysics/ HEFIN University of Nijmegen. Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum. _10 -1 Flux (m 2 sr s GeV) -1 _10 -25. __(1 per m 2 -sec). E -2.7 E -3. Knee __(1 per m 2 -year). Flux x E 2.75.

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Gravitational waves and neutron star matter (except oscillations)

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Parity violating gravitational waves

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Gravitational waves some history

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