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Description
Gravitational waves are perturbations of spacetime that propagate out through the Universe at the speed of light.
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first space-based observatory to survey the source-rich milliHertz band of the gravitational-wave spectrum.
LISA will revolutionize our understanding of the Universe, providing observations of astrophysical sources ranging from Galactic white-dwarf binaries to mergers of massive black holes.
The signals from multiple gravitational-wave sources will be simultaneously present in the data, thus requiring a global data-analysis solution to efficiently isolate and characterize them.
In this talk I will review the challenges associated with analyzying the LISA data as well as the computational algorithms currently under development in order to maximize the scientific payoff of the LISA mission.
