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SUMMARY:Gravitational wave searches  - status and plans - Prof. Sheila Row
 an (University of Glasgow)
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CONTACT:John Marshall
DESCRIPTION:Significant progress has been made in recent years on the deve
 lopment of gravitational wave (GW) observatories searching for signals fro
 m astrophysical sources such as coalescing compact binary systems\, stella
 r collapses and pulsars.\n\nA review of recent science runs from the curre
 nt generation of ground-based detectors will be discussed\, in addition to
  highlighting the astrophysical results gained thus far.\n\nThis will be f
 ollowed by discussion of the major upgrades to the LIGO (Advanced LIGO)\, 
 Virgo (Advanced Virgo)\, and GEO600 (GEO-HF) instruments now underway whic
 h will be completed over the coming years\, in addition to the planned new
  Japanese detector 'LCGT'.  Beyond this\, the concept and design of possib
 le future "third generation" gravitational wave detectors\, such as the Ei
 nstein Telescope (ET)\, will be discussed.
LOCATION:Rutherford Seminar Room B
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