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SUMMARY:Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: Our Astounding Universe
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 Abstract\n
 The last few years have provided us 
 with beautiful images of the universe from the 
 James Webb Space Telescope and the final light 
 from around the horizon of a black hole with 
 the Event Horizon Telescope. In 2015, gravitational 
 wave detectors, such as the Laser 
 Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory 
 (LIGO), "heard" the first waves from 
 the collisions of black holes and neutron 
 stars. These astronomical data are telling a 
 story of our universe that is shaping the future 
 of astronomy and physics. Join me in exploring 
 some of what that story is teaching us 
 about our astounding universe.\n
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 Bio\n
 Deirdre 
 Shoemaker is a physics professor and the director 
 of the Center for Gravitational Physics 
 at the University of Texas at Austin and a 
 member of the Weinberg Institute. Her research 
 interests center on black holes and gravitational 
 waves, understanding these and other aspects 
 of strong gravity, and how it reveals 
 itself in the universe. To that end, Shoemaker 
 works with gravitational wave detector teams 
 to work toward understanding gravitational 
 physics. Shoemaker is a member of LIGO Scientific 
 Collaboration, the Cosmic Explorer Consortium, 
 and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna 
 (LISA) Consortium where she co-chairs the 
 Waveform Working Group. She has won the National 
 Science Foundation (NSF) Career award and 
 is a fellow of the American Physical Society. 
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 She received her bachelor's degree in 
 physics, astronomy, and astrophysics from the 
 Pennsylvania State University and her PhD in 
 Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. 
 She was a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State 
 and Cornell University before joining the 
 faculty at Penn State in 2004. She moved to 
 the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute 
 of Technology in 2008 and to the Department 
 of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin 
 in 2020.\n
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