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September 1, 2016 at 4:00 pm

Physics Colloquium | The Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves, Sept. 2

The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Marcelle Soares-Santos of Fermilab on “he Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational Waves” on Friday, September 2, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245.

Marcelle Soares-Santos (Photo: Reidar Hahn)

Marcelle Soares-Santos                  (Photo: Reidar Hahn)

Abstract:  DES is an ongoing imaging sky survey, the largest such survey to date. Its main science goal is to shed light onto dark energy by making precision measurements of the expansion history and growth of structure in the universe. In this talk I present an overview of our latest results and introduce a new DES initiative: searches for optical counterparts to gravitational wave events.

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