10–12 Jun 2019
Catania
Europe/Rome timezone

Gravitational Waves: a novel powerful tool to test fundamental theories

12 Jun 2019, 09:45
45m
Catania

Catania

Museo Diocesano Piazza Duomo, Via Etnea, 8 - 95121 Catania

Speaker

Mairi Sakellariadou

Description

The recent discoveries of gravitational waves (GWs)
from the LIGO and Virgo interferometers opened a new
era in GWs as well as multi-messenger astronomy, and offered new ways to test gravitational theories beyond Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
Very recently it has been also shown how nonperturbative quantum gravity (QG) can affect the GW luminosity distance associated with the long distance propagation of GWs, hence proposing a new test of QG theories through LIGO and LISA detection of merging events.

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