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- 16SepLecture by Michelle H. S. Ho/National University of Singapore -- "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies"Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Tokyo, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in cross dressing cafe-and-...
- 16SepBook Launch: Giulia Riccò, The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in BrazilDr. Giulia Riccò will present her new book, The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil!...
- 17SepContemporary Chamber Players and Composers ConcertsThe Contemporary Chamber Players and Stony Brook Composers present two concerts to kick off the Fall semester!...
- 18SepAfrican Languages and The Challenges of Modernity: Writing Challenges, Teaching Strategies, Vision for The FutureThis conference features shared experiences and presentations on how to face a future in which digital writing, social media and artifical i...
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Research Spotlight
Department of Physics Reseachers Celebrate 10th Anniversary of Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves
Will Farr, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy, and graduate student Nicole Khusid have been part of a worldwide team of researchers who have used the loudest black hole merger detected to date to help identify how black holes work, confirming theoretical predictions about black hole spacetimes.
This revelation comes 10 years after scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes. This latest discovery was the result of improved technology, instruments and techniques over the past decade and confirms theories predicted by Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr.