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SUMMARY:Jocelyn Read - Discovering the Universe of Gravitational Waves
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 Abstract\n
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 From the speaker:\n
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 "Gravitational 
 waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of 
 spacetime that travel to us from some of the 
 most extreme events in our universe, distant 
 mergers of black holes and neutron stars. Observations 
 of these events chart the history 
 of stars through the collapsed remnants that 
 are left behind at the end of their lives. Interpreting 
 the patterns of their waves tells 
 us about how these compact remnants orbit and 
 spin, and can tell us how matter behaves at 
 densities beyond that of an atomic nucleus. 
 Mergers involving neutron stars are engines of 
 transient astronomy, launching gamma-ray bursts 
 and spreading newly created heavy elements 
 into the universe. In this talk, I will tell 
 some of the story of this new field of gravitational 
 wave astronomy and show how our first 
 detections are laying the groundwork for 
 future observatories that can see across our 
 entire universe."\n
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 Bio\n
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 Jocelyn Read 
 is a professor of physics at California State 
 University Fullerton in the Nicholas and Lee 
 Begovich Center for Gravitational Wave Physics 
 and Astronomy, and currently a visiting fellow 
 at the Perimeter Institute. Her research 
 connects the nuclear astrophysics of neutron 
 stars with gravitational-wave observations. 
 She earned her PhD in 2008 from the University 
 of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where she developed 
 a widely used model for dense matter inside 
 neutron stars and produced first estimates of 
 how gravitational waves from neutron star mergers 
 would inform these properties. Her work 
 has included proposed mechanisms for precursor 
 flares in gamma-ray bursts, new methods for 
 gravitational-wave cosmology, uncertainty 
 quantification for neutron-star merger source 
 modeling, and measurements of dense-matter properties 
 with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave 
 Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo gravitational-wave 
 observations. She is actively 
 contributing to the development of the next-generation 
 gravitational-wave observatory Cosmic 
 Explorer.\n
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 Read co-chaired the LIGO/Virgo 
 Binary Neutron Star Sources Working Group 
 from 2014 to 2016 and was part of the team awarded 
 the 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in 
 Fundamental Physics for the discovery of gravitational 
 waves. She co-led the Extreme Matter 
 team of the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra Collaboration 
 from 2016 to 2022, through the first discovery 
 and analysis of gravitational waves from a 
 neutron-star merger. She has held visiting positions 
 at the California Institute of Technology 
 and the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena. 
 Read chairs the Advisory Board for the North 
 American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational 
 Waves (NANOGrav) and served on the Scientific 
 Advisory Committee for the Australian 
 Research Council Centre of Excellence for 
 Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). She was 
 elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society 
 (APS) in 2019.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact email: events@frib.msu.edu\n
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