[SPS] Dinner with Guest Speaker

[Bernadette Johnson]

Hello SPS,

We are very excited to welcome Prof. Benjamin Owen as our guest speaker this Thursday (please see below). 
 I am looking for members who are interested in attending a 
dinner with Prof. Benjamin Owen after the colloquium (5:20 pm). You would be able 
to talk with him about his research, ask him for advice regarding career
 paths or graduate school, and of course, network! Please let me know
 if you are interested in this wonderful opportunity.
Thank you, Bernadette Johnson
Biological Sciences Texas A&M University-Commerce
--
President of the Society of Physics Students Affiliate Chapter





“If you still have not heard about the first detection of gravitational waves on Earth yet, you must have been sleeping with Einstein in another world” Dr. XYZ,
 2015. Einstein has been waken up by the news, if you are interested in it too, please come to join us at the
 
Spring 2016 Colloquium


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Feb. 18, Thursdays, 4-5pm in Science 127 (coffee and cookies served at 3:50pm)

All students currently enrolled in Physics 401 and 501 are required to attend all
 colloquia
Gravitational waves from neutron stars, and oh yeah black holes too
Prof. Benjamin Owen, Texas Tech University
 
<image004.jpg>Dr. Owen is Professor of Physics at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the California Institute of Technology where he did his thesis work
 on Gravitational Waves from Compact Objects under the supervision of Prof. Kip S. Thorne. After his postdoctoral research first at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Golm, Germany) and then at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, he joined
 the faculty at the Pennsylvania State University and became a full professor there in 2013. He was attracted to the great Texas while solving a 2-body problem in 2015. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Prof. Owen is a member of the LIGO (the
 Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory)  collaboration that recently detected the first direct signal of gravitational waves. Dr. Owen’s  research is focused on getting astrophysical results out of searches for gravitational waves with LIGO. He
 works on all aspects of this problem, both independently and as part of the thousand-member LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC): His best known work is theoretical modeling of neutron stars and black holes as astrophysical sources, in particular showing that
 prospects for continuous waves might be much better than everyone thought. He has also made fundamental contributions to the mathematical framework of efficient and accurate data analysis. He supervised the building of one of the LSC data analysis pipelines.
 He has provided astrophysical guidance and interpretation for many LSC results papers as astronomy liaison for the continuous waves group and chair of the internal review committee for the burst group, and made foundational contributions to the compact binary
 coalescence group as well. More information about Prof. Owen and his research can be found at
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/faculty/new_ben.html
 
Abstract:
LIGO surprised most people by detecting gravitational waves from binary black holes before neutron stars.  I summarize that discovery and some of its consequences, such as how it strengthens
 the case that general relativity correctly describes gravity at astrophysical scales.  Then I look toward the future, when signals from neutron stars (including "continuous wave" signals from single stars) can tell us about the equation of state and other
 properties of matter under the most extreme conditions in the universe: Denser than an atomic nucleus, superfluid at a hundred million degrees, and rotating at a third the speed of light.
 
















 		 	   		  
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