报告摘要

Gravitational wave astronomy is revolutionizing our understanding of the Universe. Since the historic discovery of GW150914 in 2015, LIGO and Virgo have discovered 50 compact binary merger events. These merger events, lasting from fractions of seconds to minutes, include stellar-mass binary black holes, binary neutron stars and neutron star-black hole binaries. Meanwhile, pulsar timing arrays have been used to search for gravitational waves with periods of years to decades. After several decades of international efforts, it is believed that we are approaching the sensitivity to detect waves from supermassive binary black holes. In this talk, I will summarize recent progress and future prospects of gravitational wave astronomy on both short and long timescales, with a focus on the study of binary neutron stars and recent results from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array.

报告人

朱兴江 北京师范大学

报告人介绍

Dr ZHU Xingjiang (朱兴江) recently joined as a faculty member the Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences at Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai). He was an OzGrav Research Fellow (July 2017 - April 2021) at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to that, he was first a PhD student (2011-15) and then a Research Associate (2015-17) at The University of Western Australia. Dr Zhu's research interests include gravitational-wave astrophysics, pulsars and probabilistic data analysis. He has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 2012, and member of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array since 2013. During 2019-2020, he served on the steering committee for the International Pulsar Timing Array collaboration. In 2019, he was named as one of top 40 young researchers in Australia by The Australian Newspaper.

地点

物理学院新楼5楼多功能厅

时间

2021年6月28日上午10点

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