GGI Conference on Gravitational scattering, inspiral, and radiation

26 Apr 2021, 15:00 → 30 Apr 2021, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Monday, 26 April

15:00 → 15:55 Status and challenges of theoretical and experimental gravitational-wave physics

Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck for Gravitational Physics)

15:55 → 16:50 Progress and challenges in numerical relativity

Speaker: Frans Pretorious (Princeton U.)

16:50 → 17:05 Break

17:05 → 18:00 Progress and challenges in the relativistic two body problem

Speaker: Thibault Damour (IHES Paris)

Tuesday, 27 April

15:00 → 15:45 Classical gravitational radiation and soft theorems

Speaker: Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India)

15:45 → 16:30 Traditional PN approach to compact binary inspiral

Speaker: Luc Blanchet (GReCO Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris)

16:30 → 16:45 Break

16:45 → 17:30 Binary black hole simulations with the Spectral Einstein Code

Speaker: Harald P. Pfeiffer (MPI Potsdam)

17:30 → 18:15 Scattering Amplitudes and Gravitational Two-Body Hamiltonians

Speaker: Zvi Bern (UCLA)

Wednesday, 28 April

14:25 → 14:30 WARNING: Today the conference starts/ends 30 minutes earlier

14:30 → 15:15 Gravitational Wave Observables for Inspiralling Compact Binaries from Post-Minkowskian Scattering Data

Speaker: Rafael Porto (DESY)

15:15 → 16:00 Gravitational Dressing of Conformal Galileons

Speaker: Gregory Gabadadze (NYU)

16:00 → 16:15 Break

16:15 → 17:00 Gravity at all scales from QFT strategies

Speaker: Michèle Levi (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)

17:00 → 17:45 From Amplitudes to Waveforms

Speaker: David Kosower (IPhT, CEA-Saclay)

Thursday, 29 April

15:00 → 15:45 Towards gravitational-wave models informed by scattering

Speaker: Jan Steinhoff (Albert Einstein Institute (Potsdam))

15:45 → 16:30 Celestial Diamonds: Double Copy, Soft Charges and Conformal Dressings

Speaker: Andrea Puhm (CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris)

16:30 → 16:45 Break

16:45 → 17:30 The Eikonal Approach to Gravitational Scattering and Radiation

Speaker: Rodolfo Russo (Queen Mary University of London)

17:30 → 18:15 Symmetries of Gravitational Scattering

Speaker: Andy Strominger (Harvard University)

Friday, 30 April

15:00 → 15:45 Black hole binaries in quadratic gravity: dynamical (de-)scalarization

Speaker: Helvi Witek (Illinois U.)

15:45 → 16:30 Post-Newtonian, Near & Far zone and All That

Speaker: Riccardo Sturani (International Institute of Physics (Natal))

16:30 → 16:45 Break

16:45 → 17:30 Numerical Relativity at the Extreme

Speaker: Carlos Lousto (Rochester Institute of Technology, NY)

17:30 → 18:15 The linear résponse theory of black holes

Speaker: Ira Rothstein (Carnegie Mellon University)