<div dir="auto"></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "journalclub" <<a href="mailto:journalclub@triumf.ca">journalclub@triumf.ca</a>><br>Date: Feb 5, 2018 5:37 PM<br>Subject: Journal Club Wednesday 7th<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:isac-journal-club@lists.triumf.ca">isac-journal-club@lists.triumf.ca</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello All,<br>Please join us for this weeks journal club at 3:30pm on Wednesday in the MOB theory room.<br>As usual snacks and enlightening discussion will be provided.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br>This week's discussion ring leader will be Matt Williams on the following paper:</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.261102" target="_blank">https://journals.aps.org/prl/<wbr>abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.<wbr>119.261102</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">A few discussion leading questions:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">

<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class="m_3721892352149296654gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">1) How is this method of gravity wave search complimentary to projects like LIGO?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">2) Why do gravity waves only have two modes of polarisation and what is the difference between gravitational wave and light polarisation?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">3) What are Voronoi cells and how does their usage reduce the computational effort to search for gravity waves?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">4) What could effect the observed proper motion of the stars to give a false positive signal for a gravity wave?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">5) Why is the detection of nano-hertz frequency gravity waves an important field of research? Are there future projects are dedicated to this topic?</div>

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