LIGO , its discoveries and the advent of Multi-messenger Astronomy : Prof Alan Weinstein

Wednesday Oct 10, 2018, 12:00 PM → 2:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Porf. Weinstein's PMA page
http://pma.divisions.caltech.edu/people/alan-j-weinstein

gravitational waves (light reading/science journalism level)

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/what-are-gravitational-waves-ligo-astronomy-science/

Read the LIGO discovery paper, which I have been told is very approachable, even to the non-expert:

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

along with its associated Physics Viewpoint-https://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/17

There's also loads of material here:

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/including videos here:https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/gallery

and here:https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2017/press-release/

Slides Ph10_20181010_LIGO.pdf