Cosmic Frequencies: An Evening of Music, Science and Gravity
Description
Time & Location
Mar 13, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum, 5000 Discovery Dr, The Dalles, OR 97058, USA
About the event
Free admission!
March 13, 2026
6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Local wine and beer begin at 6:00, along with music by the local band, Tunnel No. 3
Lecture begins at 7:00
Friend of the Museum and science advocate, Bill Weiler, on keyboards.
Amber Strunk from LIGO, the Nobel Prize-awarded Gravitational Wave Observatory located at Hanford and operated by MIT and Caltech, will discuss 10 years of gravitational wave astrophysics.
LIGO Hanford Observatory sits just outside of Richland, Washington, one of just a handful of specialized observatories in the world searching for gravitational waves from cosmic events such as the collision of black holes and neutron stars. While these waves were predicted by Einstein in 1915 the were only directly detected by LIGO 10 years ago. Since that first detection over 300 detections have been made expanding our ability to understand the cosmos and the fundamental laws of physics that govern it. Learn about what we have uncovered in the last decade and what the future holds for gravitational wave research.
Learn more about LIGO
www.nps.gov/places/000/ligo-hanford-observatory.htm
Event Date:
03-13-26
Event Time:
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM PST
Location:
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum
5000 Discovery Drive,
The Dalles, OR 97058
Contact Person:
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum
(phone: (541) 296-8600)