An exhibition at the British Science Festival.
September sees the arrival of the British Science Festival in Birmingham! As part of the national celebration of all that is science, we are putting together an exhibition entitled 'Looking for Black Holes with Lasers'. Black holes are very difficult to see directly, but if two black holes collide they send waves through the fabric of our universe, strong enough to be detected many galaxies away. Come along and find out how we use lasers to discover black holes by observing the gravitational radiation that they emit. This exhibition will boast two new interactive computer games from the Birmingham gravitational wave group, as well as demonstration models of gravitational wave detector technology and talks from the experts in the field.
The technology demonstrations will include an operational model of a gravitational wave detector mirror suspension system controlled using the Birmingham designed and manufactured 'BOSEM' sensor/actuator system, and a table-top Michelson interferometer. Talks will be given at 12:00 each day throughout the exhibition period by our resident experts; Alberto Vecchio, Andreas Freise and Mike Cruise on the 16th, 17th 18th of September respectively.
This exhibition will take place from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th of September between 10:00 and 17:00 in Physics West, rooms 117 and 125 (please note that the exhibition shall not take place on Sunday the 19th, contrary to the information provided in some versions of the University of Birmingham program).
For more information please see British Science Festival - Finding Black Holes With Lasers.
If you have questions, please contact Andreas Freise (adf[at]star.sr.bham.ac.uk) or Alberto Vecchio (av[at]star.sr.bham.ac.uk).
