Making (gravitational) waves

Making (gravitational) waves

Making (gravitational) waves

event Friday 23 September 2022 schedule 3.30pm - 4.30pm BST
Past event
Past event
event Friday 23 September 2022 schedule 3.30pm - 4.30pm BST
  • Blackboard Picture of Mathematics
    Einstein 1915: Theory of Relativity
Using mathematics to describe black hole perturbations
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Alumni and guests
Theme: 
Science and technology

Black holes are one of the most striking predictions of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. While we cannot look inside them, one way we can “see” them is by detecting the gravitational waves they emit while shaking off any perturbations caused by other objects. In this talk, we will review how tools from Analysis and Geometry can help us understand this process, and shed some light into black holes. 

Making (gravitational) waves

Speaker

Dr Rita Teixeira da Costa (Trinity College 2016)

Rita Teixeira da Costa

Rita is a mathematician working on Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. After a PhD from Cambridge in 2021, she now splits her time between the Princeton Gravity Initiative in the US and the Center for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge.

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