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Mar 2017
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Advanced LIGO: The Era of Gravitational ...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Dr Philipp Podsiadlowski, University of Oxford gives a talk about gravitational waves in light of the recent detections by the LIGO detector. 
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