Light deflection in General Relativity: From the exoplanet detection....

Light deflection in General Relativity: From the exoplanet detection....

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Speaker: Sohrab Rahvar

Title: Light deflection in General Relativity: From the exoplanet detection to exploring gravitational waves

Date/Time: October 31, 2018 / 13:40 - 14:30

Place: FENS L056

Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce the light deflection so-called gravitational lensing in general relativity. The gravitational lensing is a powerful technique to probe the dark objects in the universe, from the galactic to the cosmological scales. In this talk, I will discuss the application of gravitational microlensing to probe the dark matter inside the Milky-Way halo and its recent application for exploring exoplanets. Every year, with survey telescopes almost 3000 microlensing events are explored towards the Galactic Bulge and the follow-up telescopes identify those events with the exoplanet signals. Then I will introduce the proposal of using microlensing for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent (ETI) with the follow-up observations in the radio wavelength. Finally, I will discuss the application of the wave optics feature of gravitational lensing to probe the gravitational waves.

Bio: B.Sc. degree from the University of Tabriz in 1995. M.Sc. from the Sharif University of Technology in 1996. Ph.D. from the Sharif University of Technology in 2000 . Postdoc and visiting researcher 2000-2001, University of Paris-Sud, France . Assistant Prof., Sharif University of Technology in 2001 . Associate member of ICTP from 2001-2010 . Sabbatical and visiting scientist: 2011-2013. Perimeter Institute for theoretical physics, Waterloo, Ontario-Canada . Professor of Astrophysics and cosmology in 2011 at Sharif University of Technology . Chairman of Physics department of Sharif University of Technology since 2015 . Editorial Board of Iranian Journal of Physics and Research 

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