seminars
 



Seminars are on Tuesdays at 4 pm except when noted otherwise
Location:
Caltech, 114 East Bridge or as noted

upcoming LIGO seminars

 

October
M T W T F
1 2 3 4 5
8 9
Alessandra Buonanno [UMD]
Interfacing Analytical and Numerical Relativity in the Modeling of Binary Black Holes
10 11 12
15 16 17 18 19
22 23 24 25 26
29 30 31    

November
M T W T F
      1 2
5 6 7 7 9
12 13 14 15 16
19 20
Yoichi Aso [Columbia U]
Improving the Bandwidth and Stability of Interferometric GW Detectors with Suspension Point Interferometers
21 22 23
26 27 28 29 30

December
M T W T F
3 4
Emanuele Berti [JPL]
Black Hole Binary Mergers and Black Hole Spectroscopy
5 6 7
10 11 12 13 14
17 18 19 20 21
24/31 25 26 27 28

January
M T W T F
  1 2 3 4
7 8 9 10 11
14 15 16 17 18
21 22
Lawrence Kidder [Cornell U]
Binary Black Holes: Numerical Simulations and Approximation Methods
23 24 25
28 29 30 31  

February
M T W T F
4 5
Marta Volonteri [U of Michigan]
Massive Black Holes: From Early Times to the Present
6 7 8
11 12 13 14 15
18 19 20 21 22
25 26
Janna Levin [Columbia U]
A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits
27 28 29

March
M T W T F
3 4
Jonathan Feng [UC Irvine]
Dark Matters
5 6 7
10 11 12 13 14
17 18 19 20 21
24/31 25 26 27 28

No April'08 talks

May
M T W T F
5 6
Vanessa Lauburg [UMD]
Prospects for LIGO Detection of Stellar Mass Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Nuclei

7 1/8 2/9
12 13 14 15 16
19 20 21 22 23
26 27
Erik Katsavounidis [MIT]
Detection Confidence in Searches for GW Transients

28 29 30

July
M T W T F
  1 2 3 4
7 8 9 10 11
14 15 16 17 18
21 22 23 24 25
28 29
Seiji Kawamura [NAOJ/TAMA]
The Japanese space gravitational-wave antenna DECIGO

30 31  

 Past seminars
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
pdf
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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