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X-WR-CALNAME:P&A Colloquium: Antonella Palmese\, "Probing the Universe’s 
 expansion with multi-messenger astronomy"
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Physics and Astronomy on Wednesday\, Mar
 ch 5 at 2:30pm in White Hall G09 for a colloquium presented by Giti Khodap
 arast (Virginia Tech). The title of the talk is\, "Phononics and Magnonics
  in Materials with Strong Magneto-Electric Couplings."  A reception will p
 recede the colloquium at 2:00pm in White Hall 105/111.\n\n \n\nAbstract\n\
 nThanks to the synergies between gravitational wave (GW) experiments\, suc
 h as LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA\, and electromagnetic observations of transients and
  galaxies\, a variety of novel cosmological measurements has recently beco
 me possible. Several of these measurements rely on the use of GW events as
  "standard sirens”. Following the detection of the first electromagnetic
  counterpart to a GW event\, GW170817\, the first “bright” standard si
 ren measurement has been performed. We continue searching for optical coun
 terparts to enable more bright siren analyses with the Gravitational Wave 
 Multi-Messenger Astronomy DECam Survey (GW-MMADS)\, which I will introduce
 . Standard siren measurements for “dark" events\, i.e. without a confirm
 ed electromagnetic counterpart\, can also been performed\, using cross-cor
 relations with galaxy or Active Galactic Nuclei catalogs. In this talk I w
 ill present our latest bright and dark standard siren measurements\, and a
 lso provide forecasts for multi-messenger detections in the upcoming years
 .\n\n \n\nBiography\n\nAntonella Palmese is an Assistant Professor in the 
 McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics at Carnegie Mellon Univer
 sity. Before joining Carnegie Mellon\, she was a NASA Einstein Fellow at t
 he University of California Berkeley. She obtained her PhD from University
  College London. Her expertise lies at the interface between transients an
 d galaxies observed by optical surveys and LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA gravitational 
 waves sources. She is co-leading the DECam survey that is following up gra
 vitational wave events during the fourth LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing run\, 
 as well as the DESI Transients Survey on DECam. She is heavily involved in
  the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey\, within which she
  co-chairs the DESI Transients and Low-Redshift Cosmology Working Group.
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LOCATION:White Hall\, G09
SUMMARY:P&A Colloquium: Antonella Palmese\, "Probing the Universe’s expan
 sion with multi-messenger astronomy"
URL;VALUE=URI:https://cal.wvu.edu/event/pa-colloquium-antonella-palmese-pro
 bing-the-universes-expansion-with-multi-messenger-astronomy
CATEGORIES:Meetings and Conferences
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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