Ondas gravitacionales: el largo viaje de la ciencia | Gabriela Gonzalez | TEDxCordoba

Gabriela is a renowned scientist from Córdoba. She proposes to reflect on what was most asked during the last year following the discovery of gravitational waves: what is science good for? Gabriela has a B.Sc. in physics from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina) and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University (USA). Nowadays, she is a professor at the Louisiana State University, where, together with her research group, she is dedicated to the calibration, characterization and data analysis of the gravitational waves detectors in the states of Louisiana and Washington (USA). She is the elected spokeswoman of the LIGO scientific collaboration project (Laser Interferometer Gravitational waves Observatory), and she was part of the scientific team that announced to the world the discovery of gravitational waves in February 2016. This work, led by Gabriela and carried out by a team of more than a 1000 scientists from 15 countries, corroborates propositions of the theory of relativity enunciated by Einstein a century ago. From that moment on she has achieved great international recognition, and the journal "Nature" has named her one of the 10 most influential scientists of 2016. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx