“Listening to the Universe above the quantum din” (MCQST) (Prof. Nergis Mavalvala)
- Date: Jul 22, 2025
- Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Prof. Nergis Mavalvala
- MIT, Cambridge, USA
- Location: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopferman-Straße 1, 85748 Garching
- Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
- Host: MCQST
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015. Since then, hundreds more astrophysical observations have been confirmed. To detect these spacetime ripples requires measurement with sub-attometer precision. I will describe the quantum technologies that make such a measurement possible, enabling present and future discoveries.
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