题　目：The quest for gravitational wavesFrom the first detection toward a new astrophysics
报告人：Fabio Marchesoni（同济大学声子学与热能科学中心讲座教授、中国国家外专局高端外国专家、意大利卡梅里诺大学教授、意大利“处女座(Virgo)”引力波探测器团队、意大利国家核物理研究院佩鲁贾分院）

时　间：9月28日（周三），下午1:30-3:00
地　点：物理馆512会议室

报告摘要：

Last February the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration made headlines with the announcement of the first detection of a gravitational wave signal. That was the result of a 25-year long quest that has involved thousands of researchers in the US and Europe and beyond. During the first engineering run of the two Advanced LIGO detectors, gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers were observed for the first time. A full search for black hole mergers in this data identified two events, GW150914 and GW151226, both of which were unambiguously observed with a significance of greater than 5s.

Both GW150914 and GW151226 provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large velocity, highly nonlinear regime. Rates based on the observation of the two signals, 8–250Gpc-3 yr-1, indicate that future runs of the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors will lead to many more observations. With their announcement of the first detection, the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration have thus demonstrated the viability of gravitational astrophysics.

Design, technical solutions and scientific achievements of the LIGO and Virgo projects will be presented at a non-specialist level.

个人简介：

Fabio Marchesoni 是意大利卡梅里诺大学教授，同济大学声子学与热能科学中心引进的杰出讲座教授，2016年获批中国国家外专局高端外国专家。他是世界公认的平衡态和非平衡态统计物理权威。他在布朗马达，相对论布朗运动，相对论热力学，引力波探测等研究领域的发展做出了关键的贡献。Fabio Marchesoni 教授是布朗马达，随机共振等研究领域的创始人之一，也是引力波探测信号分析中噪声处理方面的负责人。

由于Fabio Marchesoni 教授在统计物理领域做出的重要贡献，他当选为欧洲科学院院士，美国物理学会会士，英国物理学会会士，美国科学促进会会士。