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Humankind has always looked to the sky to gain a sense of identity. Today, the advancement of astronomical knowledge relies on large financial investments to build dedicated infrastructure.<\/p>\n
From early observations in visible light using small telescopes, we have expanded to the entire electro-magnetic spectrum and we have increased enormously the size of our facilities. A recent example being built here in Australia and in South Africa, is the Square Kilometer Array, the largest telescope array to ever scan the radio sky.<\/p>\n
In addition to telescopes that can detect electro-magnetic waves, we now have facilities that can detect gravitational waves, ripples in space-time, that propagate out from sites of cosmic events such as collapsing stars and black hole pairs, like waves created by a stone falling in a pond. They were predicted by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago, but their detection only took place in 2017.<\/p>\n
The gravitational wave detectors built in the USA and in Italy, called LIGO<\/strong> and VIRGO<\/strong> respectively, were responsible for detecting gravitational waves coming from the merging of two black holes. Now to truly open our eyes on the multi-messenger sky, two ambitious projects are planning to build a third generation of detectors, either placed hundreds of meters underground, superelevated on the planet surface, or floating in orbit. And they will cost billions of dollars. Among these, the Einstein Telescope<\/strong> project, is the new European tool that has been proposed to be built in Sardinia<\/strong>, Italy<\/p>\nDuring this exciting evening, we will try to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n
\n- Gravitational waves, ripples in space-time: what the heck are you talking about?<\/li>\n
- And supposing we measure them, why? What do we learn that we already do not already know? And why do we need to build bigger detectors?<\/li>\n
- And why wasting all that money? What will we obtain in return<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Program<\/strong><\/p>\nWelcome<\/strong><\/p>\nH.E. Paolo Crudele<\/strong> Ambassador of Italy in Australia<\/p>\nProf. Keith Nugent<\/strong> Deputy VC\u00a0 for Research and Innovation<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Gravitational waves and the theory of relativity<\/strong><\/p>\nProf Susan Scott<\/strong>, theoretical physicist at ANU expert in general relativity and gravitational wave science.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The Einstein telescope in Italy<\/strong><\/p>\nDr. Marco Lazzarino<\/strong>, science attache\u2019, Embassy of Italy in Australia<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Astronomy Cathedrals \u2013 round table with the participation of:<\/strong><\/p>\nProf Susan Scott<\/strong>, theoretical physicist at ANU expert in general relativity and gravitational wave science.<\/p>\nProf Orsola De Marco,<\/strong>\u00a0Macquarie University and Chair of the Board of Astronomy Australia Limited;<\/p>\nProf Mark Casali,<\/strong>\u00a0director of Australian Astronomical Optics who build high precision optical astronomical instrumentation;<\/p>\nProf David McClelland<\/strong>\u00a0Director of the ANU Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational wave Astronomy and Australian delegate in the Gravitational Wave International Committee and in advanced LIGO.<\/p>\nAss Prof Kirk McKenzie<\/strong> ANU, leader of the Space Technology division at the Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Networking and refreshments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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