Tea + gravity = success

In order to foster more regular interaction between scientists at the MIT LIGO Lab and the MIT Kavli Institute, we are starting a new weekly afternoon tea-time series from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Wednesdays, to be hosted at the LIGO Lab (NW22) and MKI (37) on alternating weeks. The General Relativity Informal Tea-Time Series will be a forum for regular discussion between the gravitational-wave experiment, theory, and astrophysics communities at MIT. Every week, we aim to have an informal discussion of recent research topics. Occasionally, visitors will be invited to give a presentation.

Schedule and location

This is the current schedule, for Spring 2013.
We plan on meeting every Wednesday, from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

When Where Who What
Feb. 6
Feb. 13 NW22 conference room Emil Mottola (LANL) New Horizons in Gravity: Dark Energy and Condensate Stars
Feb. 20 MKI Marlar Lounge Dmitry V. Bisikalo (INASAN)
Feb. 27 NW22 conference room
March. 6 MKI Marlar Lounge
March 13 NW22 conference room
March 20 MKI Marlar Lounge
March 27 NW22 conference room
April 3 MKI Marlar Lounge Lisa Barsotti (MIT) Beyond Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors: beating the quantum limit with squeezed states of light
April 10 NW22 conference room
April 17 MKI Marlar Lounge Krishna Venkateswara (UW) A mechanical absolute rotation sensor for Advanced LIGO
April 24 NW22 conference room MKI postdoc symposium No seminar
May 1 MKI Marlar Lounge Lu Feng (MIT) Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Observable with the Murchison Widefield Array
May 8 NW22 conference room Fabrice Matichard (MIT) Tilt-Free Inertial Sensing Concept and Tilt-Horizontal Coupling Attenuation Experiment
May 15 NW22 conference room Michael Kesden (NYU) Spin alignment in stellar-mass black-hole binaries: a diagnostic of compact-binary formation
May 22 NW22 conference room Nevin Weinberg (MIT) TBD
May 29 NW22 conference roo Ron Remillard (MIT) TBD
June 5 NW22 conference roo Sasha Buchman (Stanford) TBD

Past schedule

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Mailing list

If you would like to be notified about when the Series will take place, what the topics for discussion will be, and who any visitors will be, please consider joining our mailing list. To join, send an email to gritts-request@space.mit.edu with an empty subject line and the body: "subscribe".

Contact

The current organizers of GRITTS are: