Speaker
Kip S. Thorne, J. Mira, C. Salgado, J. Edelstein, J. Calderon, T. Dent, E. Zas, Carlos Alberto Salgado López, José Daniel Edelstein Glaubach, Juan Calderón Bustillo, Thomas Dent (Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxias (IGFAE))
Date
09/05/2025 11:00 (CET)
As part of his visit to Santiago de Compostela within the Programa Conciencia, Kip S. Thorne (Nobel Prize in Physics 2017), will participate this Friday in a scientific meeting with the IGFAE staff.
In the last decades of the 20th century, Thorne was one of the promoters of the LIGO project, together with Barry C. Barish and Rainer Weiss, with whom he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017. As part of this collaboration, two gigantic detectors were built in the USA, separated by more than 3,000km, with perpendicular arms several kilometres long. In 2015, LIGO made possible the first experimental detection of the gravitational waves that Einstein had theoretically predicted a hundred years earlier.
After receiving accreditation as a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence in 2017, the IGFAE scientific direction identified gravitational wave science as a research line with great potential for growth within the Institute, especially in relation to multi-messenger astronomy. In 2018, the IGFAE joined the LIGO collaboration.
At this meeting, IGFAE staff will share with Kip Thorne their main scientific milestones in this field, as well as discuss the past, present and future of gravitational wave science.
Agenda:
11.00 | Arrival at IGFAE & Welcome by Jorge Mira & Carlos A. Salgado
11.15 | Carlos A. Salgado: Introduction to IGFAE
11.25 | Enrique Zas: ’Multimessenger astronomy with Pierre Auger’
11.35 | Jose Edelstein: ’General relativity and causality’
11.45 | Thomas Dent: ’Introducing GW astronomy at IGFAE’
11.55 | Juan Calderón: ‘Current GW research topics at IGFAE’
12.10 | Kip S. Thorne, Thomas Dent, Juan Calderón: ’The Past, Present & Future of GW Detection’.
12.40 | Q&A time
