Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2009 APS April Meeting
Volume 54, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, May 2–5, 2009; Denver, Colorado
Session X5: Panel Discussion: Women and Minorities in Gravity: Science and Career Paths |
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Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP COM CSWP Chair: Vassiliki Kalogera, Northwestern University Room: Governor's Square 15 |
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 1:30PM - 1:54PM |
X5.00001: Detecting Gravitational Wave Bursts Using Pulsars Invited Speaker: At the time of this talk, pulsar timing for gravitational wave detection will be in the midst of becoming an internationally coordinated effort. The North American collaboration is called NANOGrav. I will review the idea of using pulsars to detect a very low-frequency stochastic background of gravitational waves, and discuss current limits that pulsar timing places on the energy density of gravitational waves and what those limits correspond to in terms of cosmological models, most notably the merger rate of super-massive black holes in the early universe. I have become interested in the possibility of taking these ideas farther and using pulsar timing to detect bursts of gravitational radiation from a number of different possible sources, which I will describe. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 1:54PM - 2:18PM |
X5.00002: Phenomenological Quantum Gravity Invited Speaker: I will briefly review models in which effects of quantum gravity could be observable, and the phenomenology of these models. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 2:18PM - 2:42PM |
X5.00003: Materials Science in LIGO Invited Speaker: |
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 2:42PM - 3:18PM |
X5.00004: Panel Discussion |
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