# Nergis Mavalvala
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nergis mavalvala (born 1968) is a Pakistani-American astrophysicist known for her role in the first observation of gravitational waves. She is the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is also the Dean of the university's School of Science. She was previously the Associate Head of the university's Department of Physics She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.Mavalvala is best known for her work on the detection of gravitational waves in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project, but she has also obtained prominent results on other physics problems that evolved out of LIGO: for example, she has performed pioneering experiments on laser cooling of macroscopic objects and in the generation of squeezed quantum states of light.
Episode 324 - Hunting for missing matter, gravitational waves and stellar deaths
Hunting for missing dark matter or gravitational waves involves incredibly precise measurements. Scientists are constantly developing new measurement techniques to try and find new sources of data and test theories. Whether it be staring at the space between Andromeda and the Milky Way to find prim…
Alan Turing and the LGBTQ+ Footprint in Science | Ep 5
Alan Turing and the LGBTQ+ Footprint in Science
LGBTQ+ People in STEM that we look at in today's episode:
Alan Turing, Mathematician, Computer Scientist and Cryptanalyst
George Washington Carver, Chemist and Botanist
Nergis Mavalvala, Astrophysicist
Sally Ride, Astronaut
Sir Franci…
Nergis Mavalvala
Nergis Mavalvala is the first female Dean of Science at MIT. She’s a 2010 MacArthur “genius” fellow, and a key collaborator with Rai Weiss and the Caltech/MIT LIGO team, which won the 2017 Nobel Prize for the first successful detection of gravitational waves. As you can hear in SEARCHING part 3, Al…
Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Helped Detect the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There
The dean of MIT’s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in.
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Nergis Mavalvala
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When Black Holes Collide with Nergis Mavalvala
How do we detect ripples in spacetime? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Harrison Greenbaum explore black hole collisions, quantum tricks, and how gravitational waves can help us uncover the early universe with MIT physicist and LIGO researcher Nergis Mavalvala.
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10 years ago we first saw gravitational waves — what we’ve seen since
In September 2015, LIGO—or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory—captured the ripples in spacetime produced by the cataclysmic merger of two black holes, from over a billion light years away. This discovery confirme…
What Did That Short-Wave Message From Iran Mean?
A mysterious short-wave radio broadcast from Iran sent out a series of number sequences, when the US and Israeli attack on Iran began. Reporter Shane Harris wrote about this for The Atlantic, and explains how similar dispatches were used by spies in previous generations, and what this dispatch of n…
Meet the Youngest & First Woman Dean of MIT
Imagine two black holes merging 1.3 billion years ago, releasing more energy in a single second than 4,000 suns release in their entire lifetimes. In 2015, the impossibly faint tremors of that collision finally reached Earth—a vibration a thousand times smaller than the diameter of an atomic nucleu…
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