New Frontiers in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

19 Jun 2017, 08:20 → 22 Jun 2017, 14:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi - Physics Dept. - Marconi Building (Sapienza University of Rome)

Leonardo Gualtieri (ROMA1), Paolo Pani (Rome Sapienza), Valeria Ferrari (ROMA1)

The exciting discovery of GW150914 has opened a new era for physics and astrophysics, which is rich of opportunities and challenges. New questions appear, and old questions are posed with renovated strength. This workshop brings together leading experts in gravitational-wave astrophysics, with the aim of discussing new frontiers in this exponentially-growing field, such as formation of black-hole binaries, multiwavelength and multimessenger astronomy, tests of gravity, neutron-star modelling and equation-of-state extraction from gravitational-wave signals.

Program
Detailed schedule of the workshop

Workshop poster
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Photos (credits: Maurizio Percivalli)
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Venue
see map of the campus

Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held on Wed 21st at 20:30 in the typical Roman restaurant "Hosteria Grappolo d'oro"


Scientific Committee
Valeria Ferrari, Leonardo Gualtieri, Paolo Pani

Local Organizing Committee
Tiziano Abdelsalhin, Valeria Ferrari, Leonardo Gualtieri, Fernanda Lupinacci, Paolo Pani

Poster locandina.pdf

Monday, 19 June

08:30 → 09:15 Registration

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome

09:30 → 19:10 GWs after the first detections

09:30 Updates and perspectives on LIGO/Virgo detections

Speaker: Alberto Vecchio (Birmingham U.)

Slides Vecchio.pdf

10:15 Formation and coalescence environments of BH-BH binaries

Speaker: Raffaella Schneider

Slides Schneider.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 The mass spectrum and dynamics of BH-BH binaries

Speaker: Michela Mapelli

Slides Mapelli.pdf

12:15 Lunch Break

14:15 Parameter estimation of compact binaries from GW signals

Speaker: Chris Berry

Slides Berry.pdf

15:00 Round Table

Speaker: Emanuele Berti

16:30 Coffee break

17:00 Free discussion

Tuesday, 20 June

09:00 → 18:15 GWs and NS modelling

09:00 Modeling GWs waves from NS mergers with numerical and analytical relativity

Speaker: Sebastiano Bernuzzi (P)

Slides Bernuzzi.pdf

09:45 Tidal deformations in GW sources

Speaker: Tanja Hinderer

Slides Hinderer.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 NS properties from the GW signal of binary merger

Speaker: Andreas Bauswein

Slides Bauswein.pdf

11:45 Universal relations in NSs: implications in GW astronomy

Speaker: Kent Yagi

Slides Yagi.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

14:30 Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object binary mergers

Speaker: Rosalba Perna

Slides Perna.pdf

15:15 Round Table

Speakers: Leonardo Gualtieri (ROMA1), Walter Del Pozzo

16:45 Coffee break

17:15 Free discussion

Wednesday, 21 June

09:15 → 23:50 Fundamental physics with GWs

09:15 Theoretical physics implications of GW detections

Speaker: Nicolas Yunes

Slides Yunes.pdf

10:00 Black holes?

Speaker: Vitor Cardoso

Slides Cardoso.pdf

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Numerical black holes and mergers in theories beyond GR

Speaker: Leo Stein

Slides Stein.pdf

12:00 Lunch break

13:30 GW emission in modified gravity theories and tests of strong-field gravity

Speaker: Enrico Barausse

Slides Barausse.pdf

14:15 Round Table

Speaker: Thomas Sotiriou

15:45 Coffee break

16:15 Free discussion

20:30 Conference Dinner @ Hosteria Grappolo d'oro

Thursday, 22 June

09:00 → 13:00 From ground to space

09:00 Prospects on multiwavelength GW detections

Speaker: Dr Alberto Sesana (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm)

Slides Sesana.pdf

09:45 GWs from EMRIs

Speaker: Stas Babak

Slides Babak.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Formation and evolution of supermassive BHs

Speaker: Massimo Dotti

Slides Dotti.pdf

11:45 Supermassive BH Binaries as LISA sources

Speaker: Antoine Klein

Slides Klein.pdf

12:30 Final discussion