The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in cosmology and gravitational wave astrophysics, to discuss future possibilities of probing fundamental physics and the early universe in the light of the recent detection of gravitational waves and the preparation of the eLISA mission. The first three days are dedicated to a general discussion of recent developments in gravitational wave physics. The last two days will feature a more eLISA-focused discussion.
Topics:
Phase Transitions
Inflation and Beyond
Black Hole Binaries
Testing General Relativity
Dark Matter
Structure Formation
Standard Sirens
Topological Defects
eLISA Status and Updates
Confirmed Speakers:
Bruce Allen (MPI Hannover)
Stanislav Babak (MPI Potsdam)
Enrico Barausse (IAP Paris)
Pierre Binetruy (U. Paris Diderot)
Luc Blanchet (IAP Paris)
Richard Brito (IST Lisbon)
Vitor Cardoso (IST Lisbon & CERN)
Ilias Cholis (John Hopkins U.)
Nelson Christensen (U. Carleton)
Neil Cornish (Montana U.)
Valerie Domcke (APC Paris)
Sergei Dubovsky (UC Davis)
Gia Dvali (LMU Munich)
John Ellis (CERN & King’s College London)
Valeria Ferrari (U. Roma La Sapienza)
Raphael Flauger (U. Texas Austin)
Jonathan Gair (U. Edinburgh)
Juan Garcia-Bellido (U. Madrid)
Zoltan Haiman (Columbia U.)
Martin Hewitson (MPI Potsdam)
Daniel Holz (Chicago U.)
Antoine Klein (U. Mississipi & IST Lisbon)
Ilya Mandel (U. Birmingham)
Atsushi Nishizawa (U. Mississipi)
Marco Peloso (U. Minnesota)
Antoine Petiteau (APC Paris)
Maxim Pospelov (Victoria U. & Perimeter Institute)
Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley)
Sotiris Sanidas (APIA Amsterdam)
Alberto Sesana (U. Birmingham)
Ignacy Sawicki (U. Geneva)
Atsushi Taruya (Kyoto U.)
Henry Tye (Cornell & Hong Kong U.)
Alfredo Urbano (CERN)
Michele Vallisneri (JPL Caltech)
David Weir (U. Stavanger)
Organizers:
Chiara Caprini
Thomas Konstandin
Germano Nardini
Pedro Schwaller
Géraldine Servant
*Previous Meetings of the eLISA Cosmology Working Group:
First workshop at CERN
Second workshop in Stavanger
