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SUMMARY:Analysis of Gravitational Wave Data - Michalis Agathos - DAMTP
DTSTART:20180315T130000Z
DTEND:20180315T143000Z
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CONTACT:James Fergusson
DESCRIPTION:The recent detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from the LI
 GO-Virgo Collaboration have kicked off an exciting new era in gravitationa
 l physics\, astrophysics and cosmology. This would not have been possible 
 if our laser-interferometric GW detectors had not reached a sensitivity go
 od enough to measure length deformations at the astonishing accuracy of on
 e part in 10^{21}. Having access to this precious data only gets us half o
 f the way to extracting quantitative scientific results from it. In this t
 alk I will briefly discuss the principles of gravitational wave detection 
 and will demonstrate some of the statistical methods used in GW data analy
 sis\, for the detection of signals and the inference on the properties of 
 their source.
LOCATION:Kavli Large Meeting Room\, Kavli Building
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