The Yale Physics 2018 Leigh Page Prize Lectures were held April 23rd and April 24th 2018 by Nergis Mavalvala of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Monday, April 23, 2018 - The Warped Universe: the
one hundred year quest to
discover Einstein’s
gravitational waves
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - Future directions in gravitational wave detection
The Leigh Page Prize Lecture series are given each year by a distinguished physicist in honor of Leigh Page who received his PhD in Physics from Yale in 1913. He was later acting Chair and Director of the Sloane Physics Laboratory. Professor Page devoted his time to teaching (mostly graduate classes), research, and writing several textbooks. Since 1967, several speakers in the Leigh Page Prize Lecture series have later received Nobel Prizes and other and notable awards. In connection with the lecture series, a prize is offered to first year graduate students in recognition of their fine academic record and for the promise of important contributions to the field of physics.