School board
M.Bassan, C.Bradaschia, J.Colas, F.Fidecaro (School Director), A.Giazotto, K.Kokkotas, B.Mours, S.Perus (secretariat), L.Rezzolla, L.Stella
School purpose:
To teach young physicists and engineers on gravitational waves, their astrophysical sources and on the technologies involved in their detection.
The courses will be devoted to students searching for a degree thesis argument, to PhD and postdoc students.
This year the program will cover the following topics:
| Gravitational waves and detection principles |
Interferometers |
| Sources of GW |
Optics |
| Post Newtonian formalism |
Virgo |
| Black Holes coalescence |
Lisa |
| Gravitational collapse |
Quantum limits |
| Ray bursts |
Advanced detectors |
| Data analysis |
Detectors control |
EGO - Virgo Project, via Edoardo Amaldi - Santo Stefano a Macerata - 56021 Cascina, Italy