Gravitational waves & black holes as probes of new physics
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Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/N6F-N600 - Lecture Room
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
Host: Dong Lai & Zhen Pan
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Abstract:
The advent of gravitational wave astronomy, as well as advances in our abilities to scrutinize the strong regime of gravity is enabling the exploration of both fundamental questions in gravity as well as comprehend this regime for astrophysical considerations. In this talk I will discuss some particularly interesting scenarios together with new questions that for the (near) future.
Biography:
Luis Lehner got his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of British Columbia in Canada. He was a faculty at Louisiana State University from 2002 until 2009. He then moved back to Canada, and is a Senior Researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. There he holds the Carlo Fidani Rainer Weiss Chair in Theoretical Physics. He is also Co-Director of CIFAR's Gravity and the Extreme universe program. He is a fellow of the International Society of General Relativity, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (UK) and the theory representative at the Gravitational Wave International Committee.