Mathematics, physics, and technology

Research project

English March 2024

Buonanno’s project is on the history of the two-body problem in General Relativity (approx. analytical solutions, interface with numerical relativity, analytical/numerical relativity methods in LIGO’s and Virgo’s 2015 discovery of gravitational waves).

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Forum

English March 2024

Buonanno and Damour present the field of gravitational-wave astronomy, opened in 2015, 100 years after Einstein’s theory of General  Relativity, when gravitational waves were first observed using laser interferometers.

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