MPIK Division for Particle and Astroparticle Physics

PhD Student Seminar on Gravitational Waves 2022

Date: 29 - 31 March 2022
Location: Central seminar room & online over zoom.

Notes: Some notes are available in this mcloud folder (see email for password) and in the cluster folder /nfs/d12/lin/website/source/events/group_seminar/GR-waves-22/ (only accessible to group members after cluster login).


Tuesday

10:30 - 11:30   General relativity and linearized gravity
Frederik Depta
11:30 - 12:30   Binary mergers
Tim Herbermann
  Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30   LIGO/Virgo
Nele Volmer
15:30 - 16:30   The stellar graveyard, primordial black holes, and stochastic GW backgrounds
Ting Cheng
  Coffee discussion

Wednesday

10:30 - 11:30   GWs from first-order phase transitions: Basics
Susan van der Woude
11:30 - 12:30   GWs from first-order phase transitions: Electroweak phase transition
Alvaro Pastor Gutierrez
  Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15   LISA
Sophie Klett
15:15 - 16:00   Multimessenger astronomy
Oliver Scholer
  Coffee discussion

Thursday

11:00 - 11:45   GWs in modified gravity
Jeffrey Kuntz
11:45 - 12:30   Inferring H0 from GWs
Carlos Jaramillo
  Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15   GWs from inflation
Philipp Saake
15:15 - 16:00   PTAs, the NANOGrav anomaly, and audible axions
Cristina Benso
  Coffee discussion