Speaker
Parameswaran Ajith (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru)
Date & Time
14 June 2018, 11:00
Venue
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Kamand, Mandi (H.P.)
One of the most striking discoveries of recent times is that of gravitational waves. The existence of these elusive ripples in the spacetime was predicted by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago. At times, even Einstein doubted the existence of gravitational waves in nature and never imagined that they would ever be detected. The recent discovery opens up a new branch of observational astronomy that is unique in several senses. This lecture will tell the exciting story of this discovery, what went behind, and what lies ahead.
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