10 Year LIGO/LVK Anniversary Celebration

Join us as we celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the day the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves.

• 5:30 p.m. Doors Open. Movies playing.
• 6:00 p.m. Welcome, Introductory remarks Presented By: Duncan Brown, Vice President for Research, Syracuse University; Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics
• 6:05 p.m. Remembrance for Rai Weiss, LIGO Pioneer, Presented by: Stefan Ballmer, Director, Syracuse University Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy & Astrophysics
• 6:10 p.m. - 6:50 p.m. Ten Years of Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics from GW150914 to Cosmic Explorer, Presented by: Georgia Mansell
• 6:50 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Panel Discussion/Q&A
  • Prof. Stefan Ballmer, Center Director
  • Prof. Alexander Nitz
  • Prof. Duncan Brown, Vice President for Research
  • Prof. Georgia Mansell
  • Prof. Craig Cahillane
  • Prof. Steven Penn
  • Prof. Collin Capano