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SUMMARY:Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitationa
 l Waves from Space - Dave Wealthy
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CONTACT:Oliver Normand
DESCRIPTION:Gravitational Waves offer a new observing window on the univer
 se.  Detecting them requires an extremely quiet laboratory with the capabi
 lity to measure staggeringly small changes in distance between two measure
 ment points.  To date this has been only attempted (& achieved) on the gro
 und with detectors such as LIGO.  To extend the type of astronomical targe
 ts observable with Gravitational Waves the ambitious LISA mission was conc
 eived.  This will move the measurement points into space.  LISA will open 
 up the low frequency regime packed with GW sources which are only detectab
 le from space.  To improve the chances of success the LISA Pathfinder tech
 nology demonstration mission was launched in 2015.  This talk will discuss
  some of the requirements and design challenges that building such a quiet
  laboratory posed to a spacecraft engineer together with the in-orbit resu
 lts.\n\nThe talk will be at the usual location of the Wolfson lecture thea
 tre in the Department of Chemistry\, shown on the map here: https://map.ca
 m.ac.uk/#52.197868\,0.125487\,19\,52.197816\,0.125093\n\nTickets are £2 o
 r free for members. Annual membership (£7) and life membership (£12) can
  also be purchased at the event – cash or card. The talk will be followe
 d by refreshments outside the lecture theatre.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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