Prof.
Alicia Sintes
21/07/2017, 09:30
Plenary V
Plenary
On September 14, 2015, the two sites of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a short burst of gravitational waves from the inspiral and merger of two black holes, the first time that gravitational waves had been directly detected since their prediction roughly a century ago. This observation of gravitational
waves marks the end of a 40+ year-long quest, but...
Prof.
Caterina Biscari
21/07/2017, 10:20
Plenary V
Plenary
ALBA history started in the first nineties, when a group of visionary scientists proposed to build a synchrotron light source in Spain, as the first national large scientific infrastructure. It was meant to serve and help the development of the national Synchrotron Light User
Community, to build up a group with expertise in accelerator physics, to develop an industrial environment with...
