Rutgers University Astrophysics Seminar

This will be a journey of connecting Blackfoot language to gravitational wave astronomy. The LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration includes many people from around the world and all with our own stories. This story will include a behind the scenes look at what it’s been like working at a ground-based gravitational wave detector since 1998 (last century!). Additionally, a list of personal favorite detections will be covered as well as the experience of a son having the opportunity to recruit his mother to work with him because of language—the language of spacetime and the Blackfoot people.