Public lecture

We are delighted to announce that Professor Alicia M Sintes from the University of the Balearic Islands will give a public lecture at UCD O’Brien Center for Science on August 31st, 2022, at 18:00.

Prof. Sintes has a long experience in public engagement, including public talks, outreach article publications and appearances in the media.

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Date and time: August 31st, 2022, at 18:00

Location: George Moore Theatre, UCD O’Brien Center for Science

Zoom: The talk will also be available online via Zoom webinar at https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/s/64734875123

Admission: free. We encourage those interested to register for the event via Eventbrite.

Speaker: Prof. Alicia M Sintes

Title: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Description:

Astrophysics is living a revolutionary epoch: new techniques, instruments and theories are providing for the first time truthful and coherent answers to great questions that humanity has been pursuing for centuries. Gravitational waves -ripples in the fabric of space-time- are now the new messengers that will allow us to open a new window onto the cosmos that could revolutionize our understanding of the Universe.


The advanced detector network LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA has been making ground breaking discoveries since it switched on in 2015. From the first three observing runs, there have been many detections of signals produced by compact binary mergers. This talk will describe the status of the now-firmly-established field of gravitational wave astronomy, and give some highlights of the current discoveries.