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Physics Colloquium: Deirdre Shoemaker (University of Texas at Austin), Title "Brave New World of Numerical Relativity"

Speaker: Deirdre Shoemaker (University of Texas at Austin)
Date: 10/5/2022
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
Event Contact: Kelly Darr
12173007821
khdarr@illinois.edu
Sponsor: Department of Physics
Event Type: Lecture
 

After decades of preparation, the era of gravitational wave astronomy has begun. The gravitational wave detectors, LIGO and Virgo, have published a catalog of 90 events of coalescing compact objects including black holes and neutron stars. I will present the role that numerical relativity played in the unveiling of the gravitational wave sky and anticipate how it might improve our understanding of gravity as the detectors improve.