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Nobel Laureate Barry Barish and Brian Greene discuss the quickly-evolving world of gravitational waves detections—from the first detection on September 14, 2015 to its public announcement five months later through the many detections since. Join them for a conversation about the shuttered Superconducting Super Collider, the origins of LIGO, and hopes for future detectors.
Brian Greene kicks off the session with audience Q+A. Barry Barish joins at 32:00
This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, which is supported, in part, by the John Templeton Foundation.
Related Links:
To take Professor Barish’s full WSU course, Accelerate, Collide, Detect: https://worldscienceu.com/courses/accelerate-collide-detect-barry-barish/
To take Professor Barish’s WSU Master Class: https://youtu.be/-ulbZ8FgTyg
Barry Barish: On the Shoulders of Giants: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/videos/barry-barish-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/
Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/videos/gravitational-waves-a-new-era-of-astronomy-begins/
WSU Live Sessions are conversations hosted by Brian Greene with World Science U faculty exploring matter, mind, and the cosmos.
Nobel Laureate Barry Barish and Brian Greene discuss the quickly-evolving world of gravitational waves detections—from the first detection on September 14, 2015 to its public announcement five months later through the many detections since. Join them for a conversation about the shuttered Superconducting Super Collider, the origins of LIGO, and hopes for future detectors.
Brian Greene kicks off the session with audience Q+A. Barry Barish joins at 32:00
This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, which is supported, in part, by the John Templeton Foundation.
Related Links:
To take Professor Barish’s full WSU course, Accelerate, Collide, Detect: https://worldscienceu.com/courses/accelerate-collide-detect-barry-barish/
To take Professor Barish’s WSU Master Class: https://youtu.be/-ulbZ8FgTyg
Barry Barish: On the Shoulders of Giants: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/videos/barry-barish-on-the-shoulders-of-giants/
Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/videos/gravitational-waves-a-new-era-of-astronomy-begins/
WSU Live Sessions are conversations hosted by Brian Greene with World Science U faculty exploring matter, mind, and the cosmos.
Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and is recognized for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in his field of superstring theory. His books, The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Reality, have collectively spent 65 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.
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Barry Barish is an experimental physicist and a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at Caltech. He became the Principal Investigator of LIGO in 1994 and was LIGO Director from 1997-2005. Barish led the effort through the approval of funding by the NSF National Science Board in 1994, and the construction and commissioning of the LIGO interferometers in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA in 1997.
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