Whether you are a physics student or simply a fan of space, UofL is offering programming that might expand your ‘universe.’
UofL’s Society of Physics Students is hosting the 2025 Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy: “Wiggles From the Universe: Feeling Our Way Around Using Gravitational Waves, Seeing Our Way Around Using Light” on Thursday, Oct. 2, at Strickler Hall in Cochran Auditorium, RM 102.
Professor K.E.S. Ford from City University in New York will speak to the attendees about how information is received from the universe.
“I will speak about 2 of our most important sources of information, light and gravitational waves, and how the advent of routine gravitational wave detection over the last decade has revolutionized our understanding of many parts of our Universe,” said Ford on the event web page. “The gravitational wave detection of binary black hole mergers especially has opened new questions in how these highly energetic events can be made, and how to relate what we are learning using gravitational waves to what we already knew about our Universe using light.”
The event is free and open to the public. Program begins at 7:30 p.m.
