Leah Jenks Colloquium
Fri. Apr. 4 12:30 PM
- Fri. Apr. 4 01:20 PM
Location: 3M69 & via Zoom
Due to unexpected travel plans, this talk will be live-streamed over Zoom. Join us in 3M69 to watch the talk live and eat pizza, compliments of the WITP!
Exploring Parity Violation with Gravitational Waves
In the last decade, the direct observation of gravitational waves (GWs) has ushered in a new era and in particular has provided a new pathway to investigate fundamental physics. In this talk, I will give an overview of GW observations to date, and discuss how these observations can be used to probe parity violation in the gravitational sector. I will then introduce a theory agnostic parameterization which characterizes parity violating effects in GW propagation and show how these can be probed with GW observables, including the stochastic gravitational wave background and multi-messenger GW/EM events.
Bio: Leah is a theoretical physicist whose research lies at the intersections of cosmology, gravitational physics and high-energy physics. She has worked on a wide range of topics including inflationary particle production, dark matter, gravitational waves, and modified gravity. In addition to her research, Leah is a passionate advocate for equity in STEM and contributing to an inclusive scientific community. She received her PhD from Brown University and is currently a KICP Fellow at the University of Chicago.
For a Zoom invitation to this event, please contact an.wiebe@uwinnipeg.ca
This is a joint event with the 丁香园AV Institute for Theoretical Physics (WITP)
