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SUMMARY:Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves
DTSTART:20190429T161500
DTEND:20190429T171500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Vitor Cardoso\, Instituto Superior Técnico\, Lisbon\nTh
 is year marks the centenary of a pivotal breakthrough: the confirmation th
 at gravity can be described as spacetime curvature. Among the most outrage
 ous predictions of the theory are the existence of black holes and gravita
 tional waves.\n\nGravitational waves offer a unique glimpse into the unsee
 n universe in different ways\, and allow us to test the basic tenets of Ge
 neral Relativity\, some of which have been taken for granted without obser
 vations: are gravitons massless? Are black holes the simplest possible mac
 roscopic objects? do event horizons and black holes really exist\, or is t
 heir formation halted by some as-yet unknown mechanism? Do singularities a
 rise in our universe as the outcome of violent collisions? Can gravitation
 al waves carry information about the nature of the elusive dark matter?\n\
 nIn this talk\, I will describe the science encoded in a gravitational wav
 e signal and what the upcoming years might have in store regarding fundame
 ntal physics and gravitational waves
LOCATION:CE 1 6 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CE%201%206
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