Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binaries

Stanislav (Stas) Babak graduated from Moscow State University. He has a Ph.D. in Relativistic Astrophysics from Cardiff University. He worked for 13 years in Germany at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute). After Germany, he moved to France taking the position of Directeur de Recherch eat CNRS in the laboratory Astro Particle and Cosmology. He is a member of LISA consortium, European Pulsar Timing collaboration. He has joined LIGO collaboration in 2001 and moved to Virgo after moving to France.

• Introduction.- Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binaries.- Gravitational Waves Data Analysis.- GW Sources and Observatories.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography.