Seminars take place Thursdays 14:00-15:00, in room 54/10037 (semester 1) and 54/5027 (semester 2), unless otherwise noted.
2 October 2025: Introduction
9 October 2025: Ben Leather (Southampton)
Numerical approaches to first- and second-order self-force calculations
16 October 2025: Christian Chapman-Bird (Birmingham)
The modelling, analysis and astrophysics of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in the LISA band
22 October 2025: Duncan Haldane (Princeton) [14:30 Turner Sims]
23 October 2025: Eliot Finch (Caltech)
Ringdown Overtones and Black-hole Spectroscopy
30 October 2025: Rita Teixeira da Costa (University of Cambridge)
The Maxwell equations on the full Kerr black hole family
6 November 2025: Tom Cadogan (Southampton)
Self-Gravitating Anisotropic Fluids
13 November 2025: Alexis Reboul-Salze (AEI Potsdam)
Large-scale magnetic field amplification in binary neutron star mergers
20 November 2025: Francisco Duque (AEI Potsdam)
Towards relativistic modelling of EMRIs in accretion discs
27 November 2025: Paolo Arnaudo (Southampton) [NOTE UNUSUAL ROOM: 58/1039]
Complete mode decomposition for the black hole Green’s function
4 December 2025: Nils Vu (Caltech) [NOTE UNUSUAL ROOM: 58/1039]
Self-force calculations with Numerical Relativity methods
10 December 2025: Mike Seymour (Manchester) [STAG Colloquium, 13:30, room 46/2005 (L/T C)]
The 40 year road to precision calculations for the LHC
11 December 2025: Rodrigo Vicente (GRAPPA, Amsterdam) [NOTE UNUSUAL ROOM: 58/1039]
How to learn about dark matter from its effect on standard gravitational waves
Christmas Break
8 January 2026: Gregorio Carullo (Birmingham)
Numerically solved, yet understood? Recent advancements in the two-body problem
Exam Period
29 January 2026: Lami Suleiman (DESY, Zeuthen)
Probing dense matter with multi-messenger astronomy
5 February 2026: Aleksi Kurkela (Stavanger)
Quarks, gluons, and cores of neutron stars
12 February 2026: Ivan Markin (Potsdam)
Black hole-neutron star mergers with equal and near-equal mass ratios
19 February 2026: Elliot Marshall [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND ROOM: 13:00, 58/1007]
Singularities, Fluids, and the BKL Conjecture
19 February 2026: Mark Alford (St Louis) [STAG Colloquium, 15:00, room 46/2005 (L/T C) ]
Quark matter: the high-density frontier
26 February 2026: Suvendu Giri (Uppsala)
A “dictionary” to test GR with GW: from observations to theory
5 March 2026: Alejandro Torres-Forné (Valencia)
On the nature of normal modes of oscillation of proto-neutron stars
12 March 2026: Swetha Bhagwat (Birmingham)
Ringdown Amplitudes in Precessing Binary Black Hole Mergers
19 March 2026: Jan-Erik Christian (Hamburg)
Impossible Twin Stars - How can we see phase transitions?
Easter Break
23 April 2026: Lorenzo Gavassino (Cambridge)
30 April 2026: José Luis Hernández (Barcelona)
7 May 2026: Gianluca Inguglia (Vienna)
Gravitational Waves: An Interface Across Scales and Disciplines
14 May 2026: TBA
Jonathan Thompson j.e.thompson@soton.ac.uk
Violetta Sagun V.Sagun@soton.ac.uk
Lorenzo Maximilian Küchler L.M.Kuchler@soton.ac.uk