CEDAR email: FW: Newsletter Announcement: SHIELD Webinar, Friday, Nov. 18th at 2pm ET

[Gross, Nicholas]

Please include this in the next CEDAR Newsletter

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Title: SHIELD Webinar, Friday, Nov. 18th at 2pm ET
“From Stars to Einstein’s Waves: An improbable path to a Breakthrough Discovery”, Vicky Kalogera



Please join us for the next SHIELD Webinar on Friday, Nov. 18th at 2pm (ET) to hear
Dr. Vicky Kalogera talk titled, “From Stars to Einstein’s Waves: An improbable path to a Breakthrough Discovery”.


Dr. Kalogera will speak about her experience in the leadership of the LIGO project which detected gravity waves.  She is also the author of the essay, “Not Taking ‘No’ for an Answer: Learning How to Persist and Persevere with a Smile”.


Registration: https://bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8sYLwV14R4OOY3NFrzJoLg



Details: https://sites.bu.edu/shield-drive/outreach-2/webinars/


Vicky Kalogera is the Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the co-founder and the current director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University. She is an expert in the astrophysics of compact objects, black holes and neutron stars, the death remnants of stars, studying their formation and evolution especially in systems of multiple stars. Kalogera is a leading astrophysicist in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, LIGO being the special kind of ‘telescopes’ that first detected gravitational waves in 2015, waves that were first predicted to exist by Einstein a hundred years earlier. The first detection opened a new window onto the universe uniquely revealing powerful mergers of black holes. Later detections enabled coupled gravitational-wave and electromagnetic-wave, multi-messenger, observations revealing the sites of gold and other heavy metals production. Kalogera is at the forefront of this emergent field of gravitational-wave astronomy and uses data analysis and astrophysical modeling to understand the universe’s population of black holes and neutron stars. For her research she has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society (2016), the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics by the American Institute for Physics and the American Astronomical Society (2018), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021). Over the years she has served as member or chair on important professional committees. In 2018 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2021 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


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