Prominence: a discriminator of gravitational wave signals

by Prof. Danny Marfatia (University of Hawaii)

Thursday 9 Apr 2026, 11:00 → 12:00 Asia/Shanghai

Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/N6F-N600 - Lecture Room (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute)

Abstract: 

The concept of prominence is familiar to signal engineers, topographers and mountaineers. I will introduce prominence as a discriminator of gravitational wave signals.

Biography:  

Prof. Danny Marfatia is a professor of physics at University of Hawaii. He got his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. After a postdoc at University at Boston working with Sheldon Glashaw, he became a juninor faculty at Universtiy of Kansas from 2004 and got promoted in 2008. He moved to University of Hawaii in 2013 and became a full profesor in 2015. Prof. Marfatia has been working on particle phenomenology in physics beyond the standard model, in particular in neutrino, dark matter etc. He has published over 150 papers with total citation over 10,000.