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Seminars are on Tuesdays at 4 pm
except when noted otherwise Location: Caltech, 370 Cahill Center or as noted upcoming LIGO seminars |
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| Past seminars | |
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| 10.06.09 |
"Effective Field Theory Methods for Gravitational Binaries"
Chad Galley video pdf |
| 07.28.09 |
"Cosmology with 300,000 Standard Sirens"
Curt Cutler video pdf |
| 05.26.09 |
"Planck: History, Timing, Prospects"
Krzysztof Gorski video pdf |
| 05.12.09 |
"Prospects for Gravitational Wave detection with Forthcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays"
Alberto Sesana video pdf |
| 03.13.09 |
"The Deep Underground Gravity Lab at DUSEL"
Vuk Mandic video pdf |
| 02.24.09 |
"Progress in the LSC/Virgo Search Pipeline for Compact Binary Coalescences"
Drew Keppel video pdf |
| 02.10.09 |
"Simplicity of Binary Black Hole Coalescence and Its Implications for Detection"
Deirdre Shoemaker video pdf |
| 01.12.09 |
"Holographic Geometry, Indeterminancy, and Noise"
Craig Hogan video pdf |
| 12.09.08 |
"Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics"
Szabolcs Marka video pdf |
| 11.25.08 |
"Understanding Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Help of Gravitational Waves"
Christian Ott |
| 11.11.08 |
"Gravitational Radiation from Pulsar Glitches: Nuclear Physics with LIGO"
Andrew Melatos video pdf |
| 10.28.08 |
"Exploring Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics with LIGO"
Yanbei Chen |
| 07.29.08 |
"The Japanese Space Gravitational-Wave Antenna DECIGO"
Seiji Kawamura video pdf |
| 05.27.08 |
"Detection Confidence in Search of GW Transients"
Erik Katsavounidis video pdf |
| 05.06.08 |
"Prospects for LIGO Detection of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Nuclei"
Vanessa Lauburg video pdf |
| 03.04.08 |
"Dark Matters"
Jonathan Feng video pdf |
| 02.26.08 |
"A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits"
Janna Levin video pdf |
| 02.05.08 |
"Massive Black Holes From Early Times to the Present"
Marta Volonteri video pdf |
| 01.22.08 |
"Binary Black Holes: Numerical Simulations and Approximation"
Lawrence Kidder video pdf |
| 12.04.07 |
"Black Hole Binary Mergers and Black Hole Spectroscopy"
Emanuele Berti video pdf |
| 11.20.07 |
"Improving the Bandwidth and Stability of Interferometric GW Detectors with Suspension Point Interferometers"
Yoichi Aso video OpenOffice |
| 10.09.07 |
"Interfacing Analytical and Numerical Relativity in the Modeling of Binary Black Holes"
Alessandra Buonanno video pdf |
| 06.05.07 |
"Spacetime Encodings"
Jeandrew Brink video pdf |
| 05.15.07 |
"Constraining GW with the CMB Radiation"
Elena Pierpaoli video pdf |
| 04.17.07 |
"'Magnetic' Components of Gravitational Waves and Their Effect in the LIGO-VIRGO Response Functions"
Leonid Grishchuk video pdf |
| 03.06.07 |
"Gaussianity of LISA Confusion Background from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals"
Etienne Racine video |
| 02.13.07 |
"A Bayesian Estimation of Confusion Noise in the LISA Data"
Richard Umstaetter video pdf |
| 11.28.06 |
"Generating Squeezed States of Light for GW Detection"
Kirk McKenzie video pdf |
| 11.14.06 |
"A Revolution in Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Holes"
Mark Scheel |
| 10.31.06 |
"Status of LIGO's 5th Science Run"
Shourov Chatterji video |
| 10.17.06 |
"Ultracompact Binaries: Orbital Periods Shrter Than This Talk"
Lars Bildsten video |
| 10.03.06 |
"Robust Bayesian Detection of Unmodeled Bursts of GW"
Antony Searle video pdf |
| 06.27.06 |
"Searching for Gravitational Waves with Einstein@Home Project"
Teviet Creighton video pdf |
| 06.13.06 |
"The Evidence for Astrophysical Black Holes"
Jean-Pierre Lasota video pdf |
| 04.18.06 |
"Squeezed States in GW Interferometers"
Nergis Mavalvala video pdf |
| 04.04.06 |
"Hunting Correlation Patterns in the CMB Anisotropy"
Tarun Souradeep video |
| 03.14.06 |
"Gravitational Wave Bursts from Cosmic Strings: Quantitative Analysis and Constraints"
Xavier Siemens video |
| 03.07.06 |
"Tuning LIGO to Listen to Gravitational Waves"
Rana Adhikari video |
| 02.28.06 |
"BBO and the Neutron-Star-Binary Subtraction Problem"
Curt Cutler video pdf |
| 02.20.06 |
"Searching for Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Binaries in Data From the LIGO Detectors: Challenges and Prospects"
Eirini Messaritaki video pdf |
| 01.03.06 |
"Compensating Thermal Lensing in Initial LIGO"
Stefan Ballmer video |
| 12.20.05 |
"Searches for Periodic Gravitational Waves"
Rejean Dupuis video pdf |
| 11.15.05 |
"Can We Detect the Inflationary Gravity Wave Background with CMB?"
Andrew Lange video |
| 10.11.05 |
"Experimental Design Tradeoffs for the LISA Mission"
Peter Bender |
| 08.10.05 |
"Bayesian Methods Applied to LISA Source Identification"
Graham Woan video pdf |
| 05.17.05 |
"Source Modeling, Detection and Science of GW Emitted by Precessing Compact Binaries"
Alessandra Buonanno video pdf |
| 05.13.05 |
"GW Detection Using Radio Pulsar Timing"
Frederick Jenet video |
| 03.08.05 |
"Quantum Nondemolition GW Detectors: The Future of LIGO"
Yanbei Chen video pdf |
| 02.22.05 |
"LISA Pathfinder and ST7"
William Folkner video |
| 01.25.05 |
"Status of VIRGO"
Paolo La Penna video pdf |
| 12.07.04 |
"Sensitivity Improvements in the LIGO Interferometers"
Rana Adhikari video pdf |
| 11.16.04 |
"LIGO-TAMA Joint Search for GW Bursts"
Patrick Sutton video pdf |
| 06.01.04 |
"A Synthetic LISA, with Science and Engineering Applications"
Michele Vallisneri video pdf |
| 05.18.04 |
"GW from Binaries with Spin-Orbit Precession"
Benjamin Owen video pdf |
| 04.13.04 |
1. Probing Extra Dimensions Using a Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer 2. GW Experiments on the Moon Ho Jung Paik video |
| 03.26.04 |
"Adolescent Years of Experimental Physics"
Vladimir Braginsky video pdf |
| 03.09.04 |
"The Most Relativistic Double Pulsar: Implications for GW Detection and Neutron Star Formation"
Vicky Kalogera video pdf |
| 03.02.04 |
"Multidimensional Supernova Simulations"
Adam Burrows video pdf |
| 01.29.04 |
"Interferometry for LISA: New Concepts and Experimental Progress"
Daniel Shaddock video pdf |
| 01.13.04 |
"LIGO's Continuing Search for GW"
Patrick Brady video pdf |
| 01.06.04 |
"The Stochastic GW Background: Prospects for Search and Detection"
Peter Fritschel video |
| 12.02.03 |
"Search for GW Signatures of Violent Cosmic Events"
Szabolcs Marka video |
| 11.18.03 |
"Data Analysis for LISA Capture Sources"
Curt Cutler video |
| 10.07.03 |
"Time-Delay Interferometry for LISA: The Next Generation"
Massimo Tinto video pdf |
| 06.10.03 |
"TAMA300: Current Status and Joint Observation with LIGO"
Koji Arai video pdf [28 MB] |
| 05.06.03 |
"Search for Stochastic GW Background with LIGO S1 Data"
Albert Lazzarini video pdf |
| 04.22.03 |
"Search for GW Bursts in LIGO S1 Data"
Alan Weinstein video pdf |
| 04.15.03 |
"First LIGO/GEO Upper Limits on Pulsar Gravitational Emissions"
Teviet Creighton video pdf |
| 03.11.03 |
"First LIGO Search for Binary Inspirals"
Peter Shawhan pdf with embedded audio audio only video slideshow |
| 03.04.03 |
"LIGO II and LIGO III: The View from Moscow"
Vladimir Braginsky pdf video slideshow |
| 02.11.03 |
"Direct Measurement of Mirror Thermal Noise"
Kenji Numata pdf video |
| 02.04.03 | "Studying Galactic
Compact Binaries with LISA" Gijs Nelemans pdf video slideshow |
| 01.28.03 | "Progress in Atomic Clocks and Tests of Fundamental Laws" Lute Maleki pdf video |
| 01.14.03 | "Tidal Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations" Roger Blandford pdf video |
| 12.03.02 | "The Cassini Gravitational Experiment" John Armstrong video |
| 11.05.02 | "CMB Polarisation and
Future Polarimeters" James Bock video |
| 10.18.02 | "Galileo Galilei: The Space Mission and the Prototype" Anna Nobili video |
| 10.08.02 | "Long-Term Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries" Milos Milosavljevic video |
| 05.24.02 | "The Late Inspiral of Binary Black Holes: The Epoch When Post-Newtonian Expansion Becomes
Suspect. How Do We Detect Gravitational Waveforms?" Alessandra Buonanno |
| 05.17.02 | "Quantum Noise in Advanced LIGO Interferometers" Yanbei Chen |
| 05.07.02 | "The Status and Prospects for Resonant GW Detectors" William Hamilton video |
| 04.19.02 |
"The Current Status of the TAMA300 Interferometric GW Detector" Seiji Kawamura video |
| 04.05.O2 | "Time-Delay Interferometry for LISA" Massimo Tinto video |
| 03.15.02 | "LIGO Data Analysis for the Recent E7
and Coming S1 Run: Status and Plans" Albert Lazzarini video |
| 03.08.02 | "Gravitational Wave Research at Moscow University: Past, Present, and Future" Vladimir Braginsky, Farid Khalili video |
| 03.01.02 | "TAMA's Gravitational Wave Search" Nobuyuki Kanda video |
| 02.15.02 | "Shannon's Theorem, Olbers' Paradox, and the Confusion Limit in Gravitational
Wave Astronomy" Sterl Phinney video |
| 01.18.02 | "Numerical
Relativity: Promises, Status, Challenges, and Prospects" Luis Lehner animations video |
| 12.14.01 | "Interferometers for LISA and Its Precursor" Robert Spero |
| 10.19.01 | "Disturbance reduction system - A proposed space demonstration of drag-free technology" William Folkner, Robert Spero, Andreas Kuhnert video |
| 10.05.01 | "Gravitational Radiation From the Electroweak Phase Transition" Arthur Kosowsky video |
| 06.08.01 | "The Capture of Compact Objects by Massive Black Holes, and Its Implications for LISA" Sterl Phinney video |
| 05.25.01 | "The VIRGO Gravitational Wave Project: Status and Plans" Benoit Mours |
| 05.11.01 | "Gravitational Waves from Stellar Core Collapse" Chris Fryer |
| 04.27.01 | "The LIGO End-to-End Model and Its Application to LIGO I" Hiro Yamamoto, Matt Evans |
| 03.02.01 | "Gravitational-wave searches via pulsar timing" Donald C. Backer |
| 02.16.01 | "The LIGO-I gravitational wave detectors" Stan Whitcomb |
| 02.02.01 | "Resonant-mass (bar) detectors for gravitational waves" Eugenio Coccia |
| 01.19.01 | "Gravitational wave bursts from cosmic strings" Alexander Vilenkin |
| 01.05.01 | "Noise in LIGO interferometers: Thermorefractive noise, laser frequency fluctuations of nonlinear origin, electrostatic actuator noise, and others" Vladimir B. Braginsky, Valery P. Mitrofanov |
| 12.01.00 | "R-Mode oscillations in spinning neutron stars: Are their gravitational waves detectable by LIGO?" Lee Lindblom |
| 11.17.00 | "LISA: A space observatory for low-frequency gravitational waves" E. Sterl Phinney, William M. Folkner |
| 11.03.00 | "Low-frequency gravitational wave searches using spacecraft Doppler tracking" John W. Armstrong |
| 10.13.00 | "Quantum noise and quantum nondemolition in gravitational-wave interferometers" Kip S. Thorne |
| 09.29.00 | "Searching for extremely low-frequency gravitational waves by their influence on the cosmic microwave background" Marc Kamionkowski, Andrew Lange |
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