Speaker: GA Tech physics PhD student Urja Shah

Date: Thursday, August 20th (Parlour), 8-9:30pm

Title: Gravity’s Got Waves

Summary: What happens when black holes collide? How can we possibly detect something that happened billions of light-years away? Come along for a journey through gravitational waves, from the violent cosmic events that create them to the incredibly tiny signals they leave behind on Earth and discover how we’re learning to listen to the universe in an entirely new way.