2020 Dirac Lectures on Gravitational Waves
About the Event
The 2020 Dirac Lectures series was dedicated to the subject of Gravitational Waves, from their momentous discovery in 2015 to their widespread impact across multiple disciplines, including astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear and particle physics. The lectures were held in a virtual format as a Zoom video conference, during the week of October 19-23, 2020.
Daniel Holz, KICP, University of Chicago
Chung-Pei Ma, University of California, Berkeley
Hitoshi Murayama, University of California, Berkeley Kavli IPMU and University of California, Berkeley
Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oct. 19, 2020
The Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Current state and some about the future
Rainer Weiss
Public Lecture Recording
Oct. 19 and Oct. 21, 2020
Gravitational wave sources, detection, and interpretation
Daniel Holz
Holtz Lecture 1 Recording
Holtz Lecture 2 Recording
Oct. 20 and Oct. 22, 2020
Implications of gravitational waves detection for supermassive black hole astrophysics and cosmology
Chung-Pei Ma
Oct. 22 and Oct. 23, 2020
From inflationary universe to primordial gravitational waves
Hitoshi Murayama
Murayama Lecture 1 Recording
Murayama Lecture 2 Recording
Nick Bonesteel, Fernando Febres Cordero, Kevin Huffenberger, Takemichi Okui, Jorge Piekarewicz, Laura Reina and Kohsaku Tobioka
FSU Department of Physics
FSU College of Arts and Sciences
FSU Office of Research