Prof. Matthew Evans, member of the MIT Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave observatory

11/15/20 • 23 min

Dr. Evans is designing new technologies to improve advanced LIGO, a laser interferometer that detects gravitational waves. In 2019 he was awarded the New Horizons in physics prize for research on present and future ground-based detectors of gravitational waves. I talked to him about how he accidentally got into the field of astrophysics, and his work in the LIGO group.

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Gladys Velez Caicedo, Technical Instructor for physics at MIT

A graduate of Columbia University in New York City, Gladys holds a Bachelor of Science degree in astronomy & physics. Gladys has conducted high energy particle astrophysics at various labs around the world, such as Nevis Laboratories and as part of the VERITAS collaboration. I talked with Gladys about her experience teaching at MIT, as well as some of the discoveries she think we will witness in the near future in astrophysics. She also recounted how she found her passion in the subject.

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Dr Elena Massara, Postdoctoral researcher at the university of Waterloo

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