Caltech Celebrates 10 Years of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

Caltech celebrated the 10th anniversary of LIGO's first historic detection of gravitational waves with a number of public talks held on campus on the evening of Friday, October 10th. Distinguished speakers included Kip Thorne (Richard P. Feynman Professor of Physics, Emeritus) and Rana Adhikari (Professor of Physics), both of whom gave keynote talks. Other speakers/panelists from LIGO Laboratory included:

• Dave Reitze, Executive Director of the LIGO Project
• Calum Torrie, LIGO Head of System and Science Engineering
• Mike Landry, LIGO Hanford Observatory Head
• Katerina Chatziioannou, Assistant Professor of Physics
• Lee McCuller, Assistant Professor of Physics

Caltech recorded all of the fascinating talks and discussion that evening and has made them available on the Caltech YouTube channel. To watch all seven videos, visit GW251010 Celebrating 10 Years of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with LIGO. The keynote talks by Kip Thorne and Rana Adhikari are linked directly, below.

Kip Thorne: Celebrating GW150914 and Some of How We Got Here

Rana Adhikari: Listening to the Silence