The International Conference Series on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories (RPMBT) is the premier series of international meetings in the field of many-body physics. The conferences offer an ideal opportunity to recognize important achievements and to showcase significant new results in … Read more

-Colloquium-
On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC, the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal. The signal sweeps upwards in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz and matches the waveform predicted by general relativity for the inspiral and merger of a pair of black holes and the ringdown of the resulting signal black hole. Patrick will discuss the LIGO detectors, the implications of this observation, and the prospects for the new field of gravitational-wave astronomy. 

-Public Lecture- Morehead Planetarium

“Following the Big Bang the Universe was homogeneous in matter, energy and barren of chemistry. It is the stars which, through their life and death, built up the periodic table.