Colloquium – Jess McIver

Jess McIver, The University of British Columbia

New discoveries with gravitational-wave astrophysics.

In the last six years, the field of gravitational wave astrophysics has grown from a groundbreaking first discovery to revealing new populations of black holes and neutron stars through distant cosmic collisions, which has provided new insights into extreme spacetime curvatures, cosmology, and ultra-dense matter as well as the origin of heavy elements. I’ll give an overview of the current Advanced LIGO detectors and summarize recent results from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network and their wide-reaching implications. I’ll close with prospects for the future of multi-messenger astrophysics with gravitational wave detectors on Earth and in space.

Feb 15, 2024 @ 4:00pm Central in Stevenson 4327; reception beforehand at 3:30pm in Stevenson 6333

Hosts: S Taylor  and K Jani

Jess McIver is an assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia.