On Thursday, Feb. 2, faculty members from Syracuse University and MIT joined together in New York City for a panel discussion on the historic discovery of gravitational waves. Syracuse University professors Duncan Brown and Peter Saulson and associate professor Stefan Ballmer, along with MIT professor Rainer Weiss (co-founder of LIGO) took part in a question-and-answer session moderated by Bob Dotson G’69. The event was recorded live at the famed Explorers Club in New York City.
Previous coverage:
https://news.syr.edu/2015/09/syracuse-physicists-advance-search-for-gravitational-waves-43280/
https://news.syr.edu/2016/02/gravitational-waves-discovery-new-carnegie-classification-underscore-research-excellence-at-syracuse-27733/
https://news.syr.edu/2016/02/video-searching-for-gravitational-waves-news-conference-at-syracuse-university-77091/
https://news.syr.edu/2016/02/syracuse-scientists-integral-to-discovery-of-gravitational-waves-video-47890/
https://news.syr.edu/2016/02/gravitational-waves-detected-100-years-after-einsteins-prediction-38878/
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