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Sunday, March 30, 2025
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Monday, March 31, 2025
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
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Thursday, April 3, 2025
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Friday, April 4, 2025
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April 4, 2025 -Physics Colloquium – Shaswat Sardesai
Physics Colloquium – Shaswat Sardesai
Shashwat Sardesai, PhD Candidate, UWM Physics
Cosmic Orchestra: The Gravitational Wave Background
In the last year and a half, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, and their collaborators, have detected the presence of a gravitational wave background using pulsar timing arrays. These gravitational waves likely arise from supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) and have periods spanning years or decades.
In this talk, I will go over the basics of PTAs, the different methods to analyze the background, as well as the projects I have worked on as a member of the NANOGrav collaboration to try and resolve aspects of the GWB.
The event flyer is available here.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
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