Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Kai Staats, Michael Landry, Paul M. Sutter, Morgan Rehnberg, Kimberly Cartier
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: LIGO: New Era of Gravitational Wave
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/DgvFY2W8Prk
Description: This Week’s Stories:
- A “Tatooine” planet is found in the habitable zone!
- 80% of Americans can’t see the Milky Way anymore!
- Earth’s new mini-me Moon!
- Fire in Space!!!
- 8 space telescopes renewed by NASA!
- Too many hot Jupiters in M67?
We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today
Special Guest: LIGO Team Members:
Kai Staats ( @kaistaats ), a filmmaker, lecturer and writer working in science outreach. He is currently completing his MSc thesis for his research in machine learning applied to radio astronomy at the University of Cape Town and the Square Kilometre Array, South Africa. Staats was for ten years CEO of a Linux OS and HPC solutions provider whose systems were used to process images at NASA JPL, conduct sonar imaging on-board Navy submarines, and conduct bioinformatics research at DoE labs. In 2012 Staats engaged his passion for storytelling through film. His work includes sci-fi, human interest, wildlife conservation, and science outreach and education. “”LIGO Detection”” marks Staats’ 3rd film for the gravitational wave observatory that in February announced detection of merging black holes.
Michael Landry ( @landry848 ), Detection Lead Scientist at LIGO Hanford Observatory (LHO), Washington State. He began working on LIGO in 2000 as a Caltech postdoc at LHO, and has remained there since. Mike has worked on a variety of aspects of the experiment, including commissioning, calibration, and searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars. From 2010 to 2015, he led the installation of Advanced LIGO at Hanford. Prior to working on LIGO, he received his Ph.D. in particle and nuclear physics from the University of Manitoba, for studies in strange hadronic physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s AGS accelerator.”
Guests:
Paul M. Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )
Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com & @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
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