Program

1:00 pm Event Introduction

Tiffany Loverd, Science and Entertainment Exchange

1:05 pm Welcome

Thomas F. Rosenbaum President, Caltech; Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics

1:15 pm Celebrating GW150914 and Some of How We Got There

Kip Thorne, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus

1:55 pm Listening to the silence

Rana Adhikari, Professor of Physics

2:35 pm Audience Q & A and additional discussion

2:50 pm Break, refreshments served outside Ramo Auditorium

3:30 pm Panel Discussion 1: Astronomy with all the observatories in the world

Katerina Chatziioannou, Assistant Professor of Physics; William H. Hurt ScholarGregg Hallinan, Professor of Astronomy; Director, Owens Valley Radio ObservatoryMansi Kasliwal, Professor of AstronomyMike Landry, LIGO Hanford Observatory HeadElias Most, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics

4:10 pm Audience Questions for Panel Discussion 1

4:25 pm Panel Discussion 2: Echoes of Tomorrow: Imagining the Next Century of Spacetime Exploration

Yanbei Chen, Professor of PhysicsLee McCuller, Assistant Professor of PhysicsCalum Torrie, LIGO Head of System Science and EngineeringZack Stentz, Writer/ProducerBrenda Hsueh, Writer/ProducerAhmed Best, Actor/Producer/Director

5:05 pm Audience Questions for Panel Discussion 2

5:15 pm Closing Remarks

David Reitze, Executive Director of the LIGO Project

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