Gravitational Waves and Cosmology

Europe/Berlin
Main Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Main Auditorium

DESY Hamburg

Description

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

Participants
  • Alberto Sesana
  • Alexander Westphal
  • Alfredo Leonardo Urbano
  • Amirhossein Sadeghi
  • Anders Tranberg
  • Andrej Dundović
  • Angelo Ricciardone
  • Antoine Klein
  • Antoine Petiteau
  • Armando Bermudez Martinez
  • Atsushi Nishizawa
  • Atsushi Taruya
  • Benedict von Harling
  • Bijaya Bhandari
  • Bruce Allen
  • Chiara Caprini
  • Christoph Krpoun
  • Christophe Grojean
  • Daniel G. Figueroa
  • Daniel Holz
  • David Weir
  • Emanuele Angelo Bagnaschi
  • Enrico Barausse
  • Enrico Morgante
  • Gauthier Durieux
  • Georg Weiglein
  • Germano Nardini
  • Giuseppe Messineo
  • Glauber Dorsch
  • Gudrid Moortgat-Pick
  • Guido Mueller
  • Guillermo Ballesteros
  • Géraldine Servant
  • Günter Sigl
  • Hans Kastrup
  • Henry Tye
  • Iason Baldes
  • Ignacy Sawicki
  • Ilias Cholis
  • Ilya Mandel
  • Inna Henning
  • Isabel Garcia Garcia
  • Janis Kummer
  • Jia Liu
  • Jiayin Gu
  • Jim Talbert
  • Jing Shu
  • John Ellis
  • John March-Russell
  • Jonathan Gair
  • Jose Miguel No
  • Juan Garcia-Bellido
  • Julia Herrmann
  • Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
  • Ken'ichi Saikawa
  • Lara Sousa
  • Lennart Heino
  • Leonardo de Lima
  • Luc Blanchet
  • Luigi Pilo
  • Mafalda Dias
  • Mairi Sakellariadou
  • Marc Riembau
  • Marco Peloso
  • Marco Scalisi
  • Maria Chiara Guzzetti
  • Mark Hindmarsh
  • Martin Hewitson
  • Mauro Pieroni
  • Maxim Pospelov
  • Michael Duerr
  • Michal Artymowski
  • Michele Vallisneri
  • Mikhail Kalmykov
  • Mrunali Gaijan
  • Mudhahir Al Ajmi
  • Natalia Korsakova
  • Nayara Fonseca
  • Neil Cornish
  • Nelson Christensen
  • Nicola Tamanini
  • Okesh Karki
  • Parth Shah
  • Pedro Schwaller
  • Petar Pavlovic
  • Peter Niksa
  • Pierre Binetruy
  • Raphael Flauger
  • Richard Brito
  • Roman Schnabel
  • Sachin Pandey
  • Sebastian Bruggisser
  • Sebastian Ellis
  • Sergey Dubovskiy
  • Simon Barke
  • Sotiris Sanidas
  • Stanislav Babak
  • Stefano Di Vita
  • Stefano Orani
  • Subodh Patil
  • Surjeet Rajendran
  • Sven Krippendorf
  • Thibaud Vantalon
  • Thomas Konstandin
  • Toshinori Matsui
  • Ulises Saldana
  • Valerie Domcke
  • Vitor Cardoso
  • Waleed Abdallah
  • Wilfried Buchmuller
  • Wolfgang Hollik
  • Xiaoping Wang
  • Zhengkang Zhang
  • Zoltan Haiman
    • 09:00 09:15
      Welcome
      • 09:00
        Welcome 15m
    • 09:15 10:25
      GW workshop - Monday
      • 09:15
        Opening on LIGO results 35m
        Speaker: Bruce Allen
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves 35m
        Speaker: Alfredo Urbano
        Slides
    • 10:25 10:55
      coffee break 30m
    • 10:55 12:40
      GW workshop - Monday
      • 10:55
        Testing General Relativity 35m
        Speaker: Vitor Cardoso
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Black Hole Mergers and the QCD Axion at Advanced LIGO 35m
        Speaker: Sergei Dubovsky
        Slides
      • 12:05
        Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter 35m
        Speaker: Ilias Cholis
        Slides
    • 12:40 14:40
      lunch break 2h
    • 14:40 15:50
      GW workshop - Monday
      • 14:40
        Complementarity of LIGO and eLISA 35m
        Speaker: Alberto Sesana
        Slides
      • 15:15
        Gravitational Waves and Structure Formation 35m
        Speaker: Atsushi Taruya
        Slides
    • 15:50 16:20
      coffee break 30m
    • 16:20 17:30
      GW workshop - Monday
      • 16:20
        Electromagnetic follow-ups to LIGO events 35m
        Speaker: Daniel Holz
      • 16:55
        GW at interferometer scales from inflation, with a focus on axion inflation 35m
        Speaker: Marco Peloso
        Slides
    • 18:00 20:00
      Reception 2h
    • 09:15 10:25
      GW workshop - Tuesday
      • 09:15
        Fundamental Physics from Gravitational Wave Observations 35m
        Speaker: John Ellis
      • 09:50
        Implications of GW observations for GR extensions 35m
        Speaker: Enrico Barausse
        Slides
    • 10:25 10:55
      coffee break 30m
    • 10:55 12:40
      GW workshop - Tuesday
      • 10:55
        Laser Interferometers as Dark Matter Detectors 35m
        Speaker: Maxim Pospelov
        Slides
      • 11:30
        A stochastic background of GW from Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter 35m
        Speaker: Juan Garcia-Bellido
        Slides
      • 12:05
        Search for light scalar dark matter with atomic gravitational wave detectors 35m
        Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran
        Slides
    • 12:40 14:40
      lunch break 2h
    • 14:40 16:25
      GW workshop - Tuesday
      • 14:40
        Astrophysical consequences of LIGO discovery 35m
        Speaker: Ilya Mandel
        Slides
      • 15:15
        GW and structure formation 35m
        Speaker: Atsushi Nishizawa
        Slides
      • 15:50
        GW from phase transitions 35m
        Speaker: Germano Nardini
        Slides
    • 16:25 16:45
      coffee break 20m
    • 16:45 17:45
      Colloquium
      • 16:45
        Colloquium on eLISA science 1h
        Speaker: Pierre Binetruy
    • 09:15 10:40
      GW workshop - Wednesday
      • 09:15
        Testing GR from theory/data & analysis perspective 35m
        Speaker: Michele Vallisneri
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Gravitational Waves and the CMB 35m
        Speaker: Raphael Flauger
        Slides
      • 10:25
        eLISA news 15m
        Speaker: Pierre Binetruy
    • 10:40 11:10
      coffee break 30m
    • 11:10 12:55
      GW workshop - Wednesday
      • 11:10
        BH binaries with circumbinary disks: hydro simulations and EM counterparts 35m
        Speaker: Zoltan Haiman
        Slides
      • 11:45
        Testing GR 35m
        Speaker: Richard Brito
        Slides
      • 12:20
        GW from cosmic strings 35m
        Speaker: Henry Tye
        Slides
    • 12:55 14:40
      lunch break 1h 45m
    • 14:40 15:50
      GW workshop - Wednesday
      • 14:40
        Post-Newtonian 35m
        Speaker: Luc Blanchet
        Slides
      • 15:15
        Detection of stochastic background 35m
        Speaker: Neil Cornish
        Slides
    • 15:50 16:20
      coffee break 30m
    • 16:20 17:30
      GW workshop - Wednesday
      • 16:20
        Detection of stochastic background 35m
        Speaker: Nelson Christensen
        Slides
      • 16:55
        Pulsar Timing Arrays 35m
        Speaker: Stanislav Babak
        Slides
    • 09:15 10:25
      eLISA Cosmo WG - Thursday
      • 09:15
        LISA PathFinder 35m
        Speaker: Martin Hewitson
        Slides
      • 09:50
        eLISA and EMRIs 35m
        Speaker: Jonathan Gair
        Slides
    • 10:25 10:55
      coffee break 30m
    • 10:55 12:40
      eLISA Cosmo WG - Thursday
      • 10:55
        Stochastic background 35m
        Speaker: Antoine Petiteau
        Slides
      • 11:30
        EW phase transition at eLISA 35m
        Speaker: Mark Hindmarsh (U of Sussex)
        Slides
      • 12:05
        The String Soundscape at Gravitational Wave Detectors 35m
        Speaker: John March-Russell (U of Oxford)
        Slides
    • 12:40 14:40
      lunch break 2h
    • 14:40 15:50
      Discussion
      • 14:40
        Discussions 1h 10m
    • 15:50 16:20
      coffee break 30m
    • 16:20 17:30
      Discussion
      • 16:20
        Discussions 1h 10m
    • 09:15 10:25
      eLISA Cosmo WG - Friday
      • 09:15
        Black Holes with eLISA 35m
        Speaker: Alberto Sesana
        Slides
      • 09:50
        GW from inflation 35m
        Speaker: Valerie Domcke
        Slides
    • 10:25 10:55
      coffee break 30m
    • 10:55 12:30
      eLISA Cosmo WG - Friday
      • 10:55
        GW from Topological defects 35m
        Speaker: Sotiris Sanidas
        Slides
      • 11:30
        The effect of matter structure on the gravitational waveform 20m
        Speaker: Nicola Tamanini (CEA Saclay)
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Blue tensors from extra dimensions 20m
        Speaker: Subodh Patil (U Geneva)
      • 12:10
        Gravitational waves from oscillons after inflation 20m
        Speaker: Stefano Orani (U Basel)
        Slides
    • 12:30 12:35
      Conclusion
      • 12:30
        Conclusion 5m
    • 12:35 14:40
      lunch break 2h 5m
    • 14:40 15:50
      Discussion
      • 14:40
        Discussions 1h 10m
    • 15:50 16:20
      coffee break 30m
    • 16:20 17:30
      Discussion
      • 16:20
        Discussions 1h 10m