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STAG Research Centre Seminars

Gravity Seminars 2024-2025

Seminars take place Thursdays 14:00-15:00 in room 54/10031 (semester 1) and 54/10037 (semester 2), unless otherwise noted.


3 October 2024 (54/8B): Group Introductions

Introduction of new group members


10 October 2024 (54/8B): Lorenzo Küchler (Southampton)

Framework for inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms from self-force theory


17 October 2024 (54/7C): Aditya Vaswani (Southampton)

Describing the motion of ultrarelativistic objects in curved spacetimes


24 October 2024: Hong Qi (Queen Mary)

Quantum Computing for Gravitational Wave Astronomy


31 October 2024: Alexander Haber (Southampton)

Microphysical Models and Weak Interactions in Neutron Star Mergers


7 November 2024: Oliver Long (AEI Potsdam)

Black hole scattering in the strong-field regime: Merging post-Minkowskian theory with numerical methods


14 November 2024: Charlie Hoy (Portsmouth)

Bayesian inference for transient gravitational-wave signals observed with LISA


21 November 2024: Robyn Munoz (Sussex)

Characterising spacetime during cosmological collapse


27 November 2024: Nancy A. Levenson (Space Telescope Science Institute) -
                                        STAG COLLOQUIUM [29/1101, 14:30]

Probing the Centers of Active Galactic Nuclei with the James Webb Space Telescope


28 November 2024: Isobel Romero-Shaw (Cambridge)

Stellar-mass binary black holes in circumbinary disks: smoking-gun signatures in LISA


5 December 2024: Laura Sberna (Nottingham)

Perturbation theory with black hole quasinormal modes


12 December 2024: Suprovo Ghosh (Southampton)

Tidal Dissipation in Binary neutron star inspiral : Signature for exotic matter in neutron star cores



Christmas Break



9 January 2025: Lucy Thomas (Caltech)

Accelerating Gravitational Waveform Models with Machine Learning



Exam Period



23 January 2025: Nikolas Wittek (AEI Potsdam)

Relieving the scale disparity in binary black hole simulations


30 January 2025: Miquel Miravet Tenes (Southampton)

Modelling turbulence in neutron stars


6 February 2025: Bruno Alexandre (Imperial)

Unimodular JT gravity and de Sitter quantum cosmology


13 February 2025: Tim Dietrich (AEI Potsdam) 

Simulating and Interpreting the Multimessenger Picture of Neutron Star Mergers


20 February 2025: Mayusree Das (Bangalore)

Exploring neutron star superconductivity by solving the Einstein-Maxwell equations


27 February 2025: Gregory Ashton (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Using distribution-free uncertainty quantification to enhance searches for gravitational wave signals


6 March 2025: Vanessa Graber (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Simulation-based inference for pulsar population synthesis


13 March 2025: Divyajyoti (Cardiff)

Studying the interplay of spins and eccentricity in gravitational wave events


20 March 2025: Tanja Hinderer (Utrecht University)

Tidal effects in gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals in scalar-tensor gravity


27 March 2025: David Neilsen (Brigham Young University)

Gravitational wave science in the next decade: a new frontier for numerical relativity



Easter Break



1 May 2025: Violetta Sagun (Southampton) [Note unusual room: 54/7035]

Numerical Relativity Simulations of Dark Matter Admixed Binary Neutron Stars


6 May 2025: Alberto Vecchio - STAG COLLOQUIUM [02/1089, 13:30]

Discovering massive black holes throughout the universe with gravitational-wave observations


8 May 2025: Ariadna Ribes Metidieri (Nijmegen University)

Black hole tomography: Unveiling the horizon geometry and dynamics by gravitational waves observations


14 May 2025: Cordelia Dashwood Brown (Southampton) [Note unusual day and time, Wed 13:00]

Black Holes and Neutron Stars Share Similar Natal Kick Distributions


15 May 2025: Christian Ecker (Frankfurt)

Exploring the Phase Diagram of QCD with Neutron Star Mergers: From Long Ringdown Signals to Prompt Collapse


Organisers

Jonathan Thompson j.e.thompson@soton.ac.uk

Alexander Haber a.haber@soton.ac.uk

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