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July 7, 2025
The star-by-star formation of the smallest galaxies
Eric Andersson, American Museum of Natural History
June 17, 2025
Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center
Sebastiano Von Fellenberg, University of Toronto
November 17, 2017
Sackler Lecture: Einstein’s Waves: New Cosmic Sounds
One century following Einstein's prediction of spacetime disturbances and gravitational waves, the laser-enabled special detectors LIGO achieved the most accurate measurement ever made by humans across science and engineering and revealed to us the gravitational-wave signals produced by the most powerful collisions of black holes in the universe. These revolutionary discoveries have given birth to a brand new field of astronomy, a completely new way of sensing the cosmos and exploring its darkest corners. I will review the first direct detections of gravitational waves and what they can teach us about the nature of black holes and other exotic cosmic events.


