Amaldi 8

8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves

Columbia University, New York

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PUBLIC LECTURE

by Janna Levin


Songs from Space: Black Holes and the Big Bang in Audio

Date & Time: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 8:00 PM
Location: Lerner Hall, Columbia University

Price: free and open to the public

Black holes may be heard but not seen. Black hole motions play out a song on space itself, causing space to ring like a drum. Since our ears are unable to catch their songs, the gravitational waves pass through us unnoticed. Monumental experiments on Earth and planned for space aim to record the sounds of space for the first time, turning on the soundtrack to the Universe.

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Janna Levin is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her scientific research concerns the early universe, chaos, and black holes. Her second book - a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (Knopf, 2006) - won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers that "honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work... represents distinguished literary achievement..." It was also a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award for "a distinguished book of first fiction." She is the author of the popular science book, How the Universe Got Its Spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space.

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