Kip S. Thorne – The Warped Side of the Universe: from the Big Bang to Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
American physicist Kip S. Thorne, the Nobel laureate for the detection of gravitational waves visited Prague in May 2019. He was the guest of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. Thorne gave three lectures during his Prague stay. Here is a video record of the third lecture from May 17th 2019 from hall M1 of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Ke Karlovu 3, Prague 2.
Kip S. Thorne
Professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, the world‘s leading expert on Einstein‘s general theory of relativity and its astrophysics a implications, the Nobel laureate – with R. Weiss and B. Barish – in 2017 for “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves“ and the executive producer for the film Interstellar.
Abstract:
There is a Warped Side to our Universe: objects and phenomena that are made from warped space and warped time. Three examples are black holes, the big
bang in which our Universe was born, and ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves. Thorne will describe this Warped Side of our Universe
and recent breakthroughs in the quest to probe it theoretically using computer simulations and observationally using gravitational waves.
(Source of abstract: Learned.cz)
Links:
https://www.caltech.edu/
https://www.learned.cz/
https://www.mff.cuni.cz/
Next records from Prague:
Kip Thorne: Creating Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (USČR Praha 15.5.2019):
Kip S. Thorne – Geometrodynamics: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved… (USČR, MFF UK Praha 16.5.2019):
