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DESCRIPTION:General Physics Colloquium\, Professor Matthew Evans\, MIT\n\nT
 itle:  Gravitational Waves:  Sources and the Next-Gen Observatories\n\nHos
 t:  Nils Deppe\n\nAbstract: In 2016 the Laser Interferometer Gravitational
 -wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first direct detection of gravitati
 onal waves\; minute distortions in space-time caused by cataclysmic events
  far away in the universe.  Nine years later\, with almost 200 gravitation
 al-wave sources detected to-date and the first-generation facilities now a
 lmost 30-years old\, there is growing momentum towards the next-generation
  of gravitational-wave observatories.  Projects are underway in Europe\, A
 ustralia\, Japan\, India and the US to bring new observatories online. I w
 ill talk about the sources of the signals we detected\, the physics behind
  the detectors\, and prospects for building a next-gen gravitational-wave 
 observatory known as Cosmic Explorer.
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LOCATION:Rockefeller Hall\, 201\, Schwartz Auditorium
SUMMARY:Department of Physics Colloquium\, Professor Matthew Evans\, MIT
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/department-of-physics-colloq
 uium-professor-matthew-evans-mit
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