Leopold Infeld Colloquium
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The first direct detection of gravitational waves
On September 14, 2015 the two LIGO detectors simultaneously observed a gravitational-wave signal coming from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes.
After very quick look at the history of gravitational-wave research, the observation as well as detectors, search algorithms, and source properties will be described in more detail.
The contribution of the Polish POLGRAW group to the discovery will be presented.
Universal properties of high temperature superconductors from real space pairing
In my talk I present principal universal properties of high temperature (cuprate) superconductors and show subsequently how the theoretical model based on pairing in real space can explain those results in a quantitative manner. The emphasis in on strong electronic correlations among the relevant electrons, treated within the full Gutzwiller wave - function solution.
*) In cooperation with Michał Zegrodnik (ACMIN AGH) and Jan Kaczmarczyk (Institute of Science & Technology, Austria). Work was supported by Grant MAESTRO (NCN) No. DEC-2012/04/ST3/00342.
Serdecznie zapraszamy,
Jan Kalinowski
Jerzy Kijowski
Wojciech Satuła
Michał Spaliński