Speaker
Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany)
Date & Time
19 August 2019, 16:30 to 18:00
Venue
Ramanujan Lecture Hall
Resources
Solving the two-body problem in General Relativity has been crucial in observing gravitational waves from binary systems composed of black holes and neutron stars, and inferring their astrophysical and cosmological properties. I will review the theoretical groundwork that has enabled these major scientific discoveries.
