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SUMMARY:Gravitational waves: Discovery\, Detection and Future
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: A/Prof Bram Slagmolen (The Australian National Unive
 rsity\, Canberra)\n\nAbstract:\nThe direct detection and discovery of the 
 first gravitational waves by gravitational wave detectors first made 'wave
 s' in 2017. This was an exciting achievement in the scientific world and f
 or the general public. These detectors observed the gravitational wave sig
 nature of the merger of two black holes in the universe which was made pos
 sible by the marvellous detector design and its engineering and the combin
 ation of this science and engineering captured public attention and made v
 arious concepts of Einstein’s theory\, curvature of space-time accessibl
 e. Since 2017\, more events have been observed\, and detector improvements
  have been implemented. To date\, these suspended mass\, laser interferome
 ter based gravitational wave detectors are the most sensitive displacement
  sensors in the world! Even more\, their performance is enhanced by contro
 lling the quantum state of the light within the interferometer across the 
 full frequency range of interest for the detector. Various engineering tec
 hniques are combined to achieve this performance and makes these machines 
 some of the largest quantum enhanced sensors. In my presentation\, I will 
 cover some of the exciting astrophysical outcomes\, discuss some of the la
 test techniques and plans to improve the performance of the suspended mass
 \, laser interferometer based gravitational wave detectors. I will then co
 nclude with some future plans to potentially observe all the binary neutro
 n star merger in the Universe.\nSpeaker Bio : A/Prof Bram Slagmolen is a r
 esearch scientist and academic in the Centre for Gravitational Astrophysic
 s at the Australian National University since early 2000. He designed and 
 build complex opto-mechanical instrumentation for the Advanced LIGO projec
 t. He is a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of
  Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery. His research interest covers
  the development of opto-mechanical instrumentation and metrology to impro
 ve the sensitivity of current and future gravitational wave detectors. He 
 received his BSc/Hon at the TH Rijswijk\, Den Haag (Netherland) in Photoni
 cs (1998)\, and obtained his PhD in Experimental Physics from the ANU (200
 5). He worked as a Project Scientist at University of Western Australia at
  the Gingin research facility\, was awarded an ARC APD and ARC Future Fell
 owship.\n\nhttps://indico.fysik.su.se/event/8902/
LOCATION:FD5 (AlbaNova Main Building)
URL:https://indico.fysik.su.se/event/8902/
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