Please join us for the November meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, November 11. The meeting will be held at Kaleideum – located at 120 West 3rd Street downtown in Winston-Salem, NC.
The program will be An amazing science case for the future of gravitational waves: Extreme mass-ratio inspirals by Wake Forest University physics professor Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño.
Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the primary targets for the upcoming space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In this talk, I will explain what EMRIs are, how we model and detect these systems, and what they reveal about the fundamental nature of our universe.
Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Wake Forest University. His research group studies observational signatures across both electromagnetic and gravitational spectra to investigate the effects of strong gravity.
You don’t have to be a member to attend. If you’re curious and have an interest in astronomy and the universe, come on out! Of course, you can come just for the donuts.
The doors to the building will open at 7:00 pm. The doors will reman locked. Someone will be there to let you in.
We will meet in the 1st floor La STEAM B room. Enter through the side entrance (Members and Group entrance on the left). Go straight ahead into the meeting room.
When leaving, go out through the same side door and make sure the door is closed tightly behind you.
Please DO NOT wander throughout the building – The exhibits are NOT open.
There is no onsite parking, but after 5:00 PM and on weekends, all on-street parking is free (even with the new parking system downtown). The nearest on-street parking is on Third Street in front of the building and on Liberty Street. There are paid decks nearby, with the closest one being Liberty Plaza just south of the museum with entrances on Town Run Lane and Liberty Street. Here is a parking map of downtown.
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