Gravitational Waves are the subject of a lecture at Rómulo - Centro Ciência Viva da UC

Online event open to all interested parties receives professor Carlos Fiolhais

25 may, 2021≈ 4 min read

This Tuesday, May 25, at 6 pm, the Astronomy Section of the Academic Association of Coimbra (SAC) and Rómulo - Centro Ciência Viva of the University of Coimbra will hold a joint session with the theme "Gravitational waves: 'hearing' the Universe". The session brings as speaker the Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of UC, Carlos Fiolhais, and will be moderated by Luís Januário and Diogo Eufrásio, representatives of SAC/AAC.

The event will be hosted online, via Zoom, and is open to all audiences interested in astrophysics issues, with special attention to the science students. There will be a space for questions at the end of the session.

After the event, the recording will be available on PodSAC, the SAC podcast (click here to listen).

About Gravitational Waves

Gravitational waves are space-time oscillations that Einstein predicted in 1916 as a consequence of his theory of general relativity - and that only recently, in 2015, were detected by an observatory in the United States, built specifically for this purpose (LIGO).

The first observation of these oscillations resulted from the merge of two black holes with a few dozen solar masses to give rise to a single black super hole. It was the first direct proof of the existence of black holes. The discovery, which was rewarded with the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, opened the door to new possibilities for the perception of the Universe: until now we could only see it, now we can also, in a certain sense, “hear it”.

About the speaker

Carlos Fiolhais was born in Lisbon in 1956. Graduated in Physics at the University of Coimbra and doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the Goethe University, in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1982, he is a full professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra since 2000. He was a visiting professor at universities in Portugal, Brazil and the United States. He published more than 60 books. He is the author of more than 150 scientific articles (one of which has more than 20,000 citations, the most cited by scientists in Portugal). He was the director of the General Library of the University of Coimbra. He won several awards, including the 2004 Golden Globe for Merit and Excellence in Science awarded by SIC television in 2005 (the only Golden Globe in science awarded to date).

| Participate |

What: Session "Gravitational waves: 'hear' the Universe"

When: May 25th at 6pm

Where: via Zoom.

- Join the event created on the website and Facebook of Rómulo - Centro Ciência Viva of UC, or

- Enter the Zoom meeting through the page: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83821183583, with meeting ID: 838 2118 3583.


Source: Rómulo