OPN Talks with David Reitze

Angela Stark

Our conversation with David Reitze, LIGO expert and CLEO/QELS plenary speaker.

 

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David Reitze works with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on developing large-scale gravitational wave interferometers, the world’s largest precision optical instruments. LIGO was designed to probe the universe in a fundamentally new way by detecting gravitational waves, which occur as a result of violent events in space, such as the collisions of stars.

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