GRAvitational-waves Science&technology Symposium (GRASS 2024)

Scientific Programme

Coatings and Materials

CTMT

Challenges in materials for ground and space-based GW detectors. Reflective Coatings (crystalline and amorphous) for cryogenic and high-power applications. Substrates for cryogenic operation.

Invited speaker: François Schiettekatte (Université de Montréal)
Title: Material properties needed for the next generation mirrors

Reduction of quantum noise in interferometric gravitational wave detectors

QNRS

New ideas and challenges for quantum noise reduction. New approaches to quantum noise shaping.

Invited speaker: Ray-Kuang Lee (National Tsing Hua University)
Title: Machine-learning enhanced quantum state tomography and its applications to the gravitational wave detectors

Stray light mitigation

STRL

Straylight modelling, characterization and mitigation tools for ground and space based GW detectors.

Invited speaker: Michel Lintz (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur)
Title: Measurement and identification of coherent stray light in complex interferometers

GW and multi-messenger observational science

OBMM

Multi wavelength GW observations (PTA, LISA, ground based, …) and multimessenger strategies.

Invited speaker: Maria Haney (GRavitational AstroParticle Physics Amsterdam)
Title: Gravitational-wave astronomy in the 2030s: prospects and challenges for data analysis

Invited speaker: Albino Perego (Università di Trento)
Title: GW detections from neutron star mergers in the ET era

Other challenges for future GW detectors

OTHR

Issues and advances in GW physics or detection which doesn’t explicitly fall within the scope of the other topical sessions.

Invited speaker: Iacopo Carusotto (INO-CNR BEC Center)
Title: Quantum superfluids as analog models of gravity: a fruitful synergy of gravity and quantum optics