Program

Tuesday – December 9, 2025

13:00 – 19:30

Afternoon session

13:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
45m
13:45
Introduction of the GWSky Team
30m
14:15
A Hundred-Fold Accuracy Leap in Waveform Modeling: Challenges and Pathways
Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
45m
15:00
Discussion
30m
15:30
Coffee Break
30m
16:00
NR, PM, PN, GSF comparisons and transferring information from one method to another
Speaker: Oliver Long, Raj Patil (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
30m
16:30
Discussion
30m
17:00
Which GR simulations we plan to do, which observables we plan to extract besides waveforms?
Speaker: Harald Pfeiffer, Lluc Planas Llompart (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
15m
17:15
Discussion
30m

17:45 – 19:30

Reception

105m

Wednesday – December 10, 2025

09:30 – 12:30

Morning session

09:30
The Post-Minkowskian Quest for Precision
Speaker: Zvi Bern (University of California, Los Angeles)
45m
10:15
Discussion
30m
10:45
Coffee Break
30m
11:15
Towards generic 1PA waveforms
Speaker: Maarten van de Meent (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
45m
12:00
Discussion
30m

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

90m

14:00 – 18:00

Afternoon session

14:00
Effective field theory and amplitude tools for gravitational binary systems
Speaker: Mikhail Solon (University of California, Los Angeles)
30m
14:30
Discussion
30m
15:00
New resummations for dynamics and waveforms
Speaker: Francisco Blanco, Aldo Gamboa (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
15m
15:15
Discussion
30m
15:45
Coffee Break
30m
16:15
Break-out parallel sessions
60m
17:15
Discussion from break-out sessions
45m

18:00 – 21:00

Social Dinner / Atrium AEI

180m

Thursday – December 11, 2025

09:30 – 12:45

Morning session

09:30
Expect Surprises: Preparing GW Models for the Unknown
Speaker: Enrico Barausse (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste)
45m
10:15
Discussion
30m
10:45
Coffee Break
30m
11:15
Astrophysical environmental and lensing effects for non-experts: why should we care?
Speaker: Rohit Chandramouli (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste), Francisco Duque (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
15m
11:30
Discussion
30m
12:00
Fast waveforms: Time-frequency domain, multi-timescale methods and other methods
Speaker: Philip Lynch (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam), Chantal Pitte (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste)
15m
12:15
Discussion
30m

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch Break

75m

14:00 – 18:00

Afternoon session

Friday – December 12, 2025

09:30 – 13:00

Morning session

09:30
Hypermodel: roadmap to build the model of models; waveform and noise systematics
Speaker: Enrico Barausse (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste), Rohit Chandramouli (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste), Jonathan Gair (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
30m
10:00
Discussion
30m
10:30
Coffee Break
30m
11:00
Machine learning methods for waveform calibration
Speaker: Héctor Estellés (Institute of Space Sciences ICE-CSIC, Barcelona), Lorenzo Pompili (University of Nottingham), Rahul Srinivasan (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste)
30m
11:30
Discussion
30m
12:00
Wrap up talk
60m

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch Break / Departure

120m