Monday

The indicated times are valid for the time zone “Europe/Berlin”.

14:50 – 19:00
First session
  • 14:50
    Welcome and introduction
    Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno (AEI Potsdam)
    10m
  • 15:00
    How LIGO/Virgo detect and interpret gravitational-wave signals
    Speaker: Aaron Zimmerman (University of Texas at Austin)
    SlidesRecording
    30m
  • 16:00
    Coffee
    30m
  • 16:30
    Current strategy to build waveform models for gravitational-wave observations
    Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno (AEI Potsdam)
    SlidesRecording
    30m
    • 17:00
      Discussion
      Speaker: Tanja Hinderer (University of Amsterdam)
      SlidesRecording
      30m
  • 17:30
    Future detectors & modeling challenges
    Speaker: Jonathan Gair (AEI Potsdam)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Geraint Pratten (University of Birmingham)
    30m
  • 18:00
    Meal
    60m
19:00 – 21:00
Second session
  • 19:00
    Two-Body Dynamics in the Post-Newtonian Approximation and Synergies with the Effective Field Theory
    Speaker: Luc Blanchet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
    SlidesRecording
    30m
  • 20:00
    Two-body dynamics and numerical relativity
    Speaker: Harald Pfeiffer (AEI Potsdam)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Sebastiano Bernuzzi (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
    30m
  • 20:30
    LIGO/Virgo observations of spin effects
    Speaker: Patricia Schmidt (University of Birmingham)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Andres Luna (UCLA)
    30m