SPS Board room, Ground floor, physics building
10 YEARS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY
By Dr. Frederique Marion
Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP)
SPS Board room, Ground floor, physics building
Frederique Marion is a scientist at LAPP, a high-energy physics institute in Annecy (France).
For many years, she has been involved in gravitational wave detection, primarily through
the European experiment Virgo. She is also a member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
collaboration, which operates the worldwide network of detectors that have made
gravitational wave astronomy a reality over the past decade. The seminar will present the
exquisitely sensitive instruments that have been developed to detect those elusive ripples in
spacetime, and the science that is made possible by a growing sample of detected sources,
at the crossroads of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics.