October 8, 2019

Speaker: Patrick Brady

Contact Information: prbrady@uwm.edu

Title: Cosmic Collisions - Progress in gravitational-wave astronomy

Abstract: The observation of mergers of black holes and neutron stars has established gravitational-wave astronomy as powerful tool to understand the Universe. After a brief introduction to gravitational waves and how the detectors work, I will discuss the insights that have come from the events identified thus far by the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations. In particular, I will discuss merger rate estimates, what we know about the mass distributions of compact binary systems, and what we have learned from multi-messenger observations of binary mergers. I will finish with a discussion of future observing runs and what we can expect over the next few years.

Visit Schedule:

Wednesday (Oct 9, 2019)

(visitor room: 123 )

• 10:30 a.m.: Astro Coffee

• 11:00 a.m.: Adam Burrows (Peyton 105)

• 11:30 a.m.:

• 12:00 p.m.:

• 12:30 p.m.: Wunch (Peyton 033)

• 2:00 p.m.:

• 2:30 p.m.: Michael Strauss (Peyton 113)

• 3:00 p.m.:

• 3:30 p.m.:

• 4:00 p.m.:

• 4:30 p.m.:

• 5:00 p.m.: Roohi Dalal (Peyton 031)

• 5:30 p.m.: Jeremy Goodman (Peyton 129)

• 6:00 p.m.: DINNER WITH HOST - meet in Grand Central

Dinner Sign-up (grad students & postdocs are encouraged; 8 MAX) - add your name here:

1. Speaker: Patrick Brady

2. Faculty host: Michael Strauss

3. Postdoc host: Maria Petropoulou

4. Fani Dosopoulou

5. Patrick Crumley

6. Roohi Dalal

7. Ahmad Nemer

8. Betsy Hernandez

NO MORE THAN 8 PEOPLE (otherwise it is very difficult to properly interact with the speaker)