Colloquia

The MPQ Colloquium is held on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm.
The MCQST Colloquium takes place on Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.

The talks will take place in Herbert Walther Lecture Hall. Details on how to participate online are distributed via the mailing lists [wiss-mpq] and [Mpq-colloquium-stream]. To receive this information, please register using the attached link.

Scientific organization of the talks: Dr. Stephan Dürr and Prof. Thomas Udem

Speaker: Prof. Nergis Mavalvala Location: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Hans-Kopferman-Straße 1, 85748 Garching

“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. [more]