Gravitational Wave Detection: A Historical Perspective

Document #:

LIGO-G1500024-v2

Document type:

G - Presentations (eg Graphics)

Abstract:

The search for gravitational waves began at the Chapel Hill Conference in January 1957, and will reach a successful conclusion at a set of observatories around the globe about sixty years later. This talk will review the history of the early thought experiments, the program of resonant mass detectors (“Weber bars”), and the development of the large interferometric detectors like LIGO and Virgo that are, it is hoped, about to make the first detections of gravitational wave signals.

Files in Document:

• Gravitational wave history, pdf version (APS talk April 2105 v2.pdf, file is not accessible)

Other Files:

• Gravitational wave history, ppt version (APS talk April 2105 v2.ppt, file is not accessible)

Topics:

• Public Talk / Colloquium

Authors:

• Peter Saulson

Keywords:

history