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  1. Today KumpulaScience KumpulaPhysics we’re organising a meeting to discuss ways in which Finland can grow its involvement in LISACommunity. It should be exciting! I’ll try to tweet anything interesting that comes up. 🙌
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      We start, of course, with delicious vegan #Unicafe pulla!
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        Mark Hindmarsh from KumpulaPhysics and PhysicsAtSussex setting the scene for the day, introducing how gravitational waves are produced.
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          To detect gravitational waves in space we need to use heterodyne interferometry, and track the change in phase between satellites. Martin Hewitson from mpi_grav explains how.
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            Antoine Petiteau astrototoGW showed a movie by Steve Drasco of object 270 times the sun’s mass falling into a supermassive black hole, termed an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI). For Brits of my generation it may bring to mind the Helvetica Scenario 😅 youtu.be/AH2nk0Iy_lw
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              Later Eija Tuominen told us about the achievements of the HIPhysics detector laboratory and the great team behind it.
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