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Colloquium | Discovering gravitational waves with LIGO

Title	Discovering gravitational waves with LIGO
Speaker	Jayanti Prasad, Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University Dr. Jayanti Prasad is a DST Young Scientist at the Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University. His field of research is astrophysics/cosmology with focus on cosmic microwave background radiation and gravitational waves. He is part of the Gravitational Wave Research Group at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.
Date & Time	Friday, 04 March 2016 \| 11:00-12:00
Venue	Kelkar Laboratory Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University
Abstract	This presentation is primarily for the benefit of non-specialists. The discovery of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Waves Observatories (LIGO) in USA is being considered one of the most important discoveries of science in recent time. In my presentation, I will motivate the case for gravitational waves starting from Galileo and Newton to Einstein. After reviewing some of the important attempts which have been made in the last fifty years towards direct/indirect detection of gravitational waves, I will explain the working of LIGO. I will end my presentation by giving an overview of the discovery of binary black hole merger event GW150914 and highlight the contribution India has been making in this field and will make in future, in particular, by setting-up a LIGO observatory in India.
Organizer/Host	Mihir Arjunwadkar, Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University

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