上海交大科学前沿交叉论坛&李政道研究所学术讲座：Testing General Relativity and Gravitational Physics

by Prof. Suwen Wang (王肃文) (Hainan Tropical Ocean Univ./Chinese Academy of Sciences/Stanford University)

Friday 28 Jun 2019, 11:00 → 12:30 Asia/Shanghai

Tsung-Dao Lee library/Fourth Floor-410 - 410# Meeting Room (Tsung-Dao Lee Library)

Abstract:

The theory of general relativity (GR) was formulated for describing gravity
more than 100 years ago.  The test results have been coming out slow due to
extremely week effects predicted by GR.  With the advancement of technology,
the field has been expanding in the past few decades.  I will review some of
the historical experiments as well as some of the on-going efforts in
testing the theory of gravity.

 

About the Speaker:

Prof. Suwen Wang is the director of Ocean Observatory, Hainan Tropical Ocean
University. He is also a member of Taiji program in space. Prof. Wang
graduated at Physics Department of Nanjing University in 1982. Then he went
to United States via CUSPEA and got PhD at Duke University in 1988. After
1992, he worked on experiments about general relativity at Stanford
University, including Gravity Probe B, verification of equivalence
principle, light speed measurement using microwave and optical cavity and
technology development of space gravitational wave detection.

GravityTalk.pdf