The Discovery of Gravitational Waves Predicted by Albert Einstein – Sarah Caudill ’06, Ph.D.

Mon., Apr. 4, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Rinker Auditorium in the Lynn Business Center, Stetson University

Stetson alumna Sarah Caudill, class of 2006, will be speaking on campus Mon., Apr. 4, about the recent discovery of gravitational waves, considered “the discovery of the century,” announced at the National Press Club, Feb. 11, 2016, in Washington, D.C.

Caudill’s lecture, which is open to the public at no charge, will be at 7:30 p.m., in Rinker Auditorium, in the Lynn Business Center, located at 345 N. Woodland Blvd., in DeLand.

Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity just about a century ago, but were not directly detected until this year. Caudill is a co-author of the article detailing the discovery in Physical Review Letters.

Caudill graduated from Stetson University in 2006 with a physics major. While at Stetson, she spent a summer internship at Caltech working on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in gravitational wave physics at Louisiana State University. She is currently a researcher at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and is an ongoing member of the LIGO collaboration.

Caudill was recently featured in the article, Sarah Caudill ’06: member of the “Discovery of the Century” research team, published in Stetson Today on Feb. 12. Her interview on WSBB Radio can be heard on StetsonU Talk Radio at this link: http://tobtr.com/8432853.