Speaker
Erik Katsavounidis
(MIT)
Description
The morning (in Eastern US) of September 14, 2015 was marked by a watershed moment in physics and astronomy, the first direct detection of gravitational waves. A magnetic monopole detection would had been an equally landmark event, alas, nature was not as generous. In this brief presentation, I will connect the path to the gravitational wave detection with the journey of MACRO's and the broader scientific community's to detect magnetic monopoles of astrophysical/cosmological origin.
