Einstein Telescope German Community Annual Meeting 2025

30 Jan 2025, 10:00 → 31 Jan 2025, 15:30 Europe/Berlin

CFEL

Celine Hadziioannou (Universität Hamburg, Institute of Geophysics), Cintia Maria Vazquez Alvarez (UNI/EXP (Uni Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik)), Katharina-Sophie Isleif (HSU (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität), DESY), Lisa Kamlade (Z_APPEC (APPEC Fachgruppe)), Michèle Heurs (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Oliver Gerberding (Universität Hamburg, Institut fur Experimentalphysik), Roman Schnabel (UHH), Stefan Funk (ECAP), Thomas Berghoefer (Z_APPEC (APPEC Fachgruppe))

The German Einstein Telescope Community is invited to a face-to-face meeting in Hamburg to present status and perspectives in Gravitational Wave Astronomy.

Current German activities towards the realization of the Einstein Telescope (ET) and the status within the international community will be presented and discussed in view of a German contribution to this future Gravitational Wave interferometer.

The meeting starts at noon on Thursday, the 30th of January, and ends at noon on Friday, the 31st of January. A social dinner is planned for Thursday evening at Cap San Diego on the Elbe river, a shuttle bus will bring participants there. An optional splinter session for communications is schedule for Thursday morning and optional lab tours will be offered Friday afternoon. 

The meeting is organized as a hybrid event. 

In-person participation is limited to 150 persons. Please register before the 21st of January if you want to participate in person. Afterwards participation is open only for online participation.

If interested participants can contribute posters, please indicate so during registration.

Photos will be taken at this event. These will be used for public relations purposes and will also serve to document the event. If you do not wish to be photographed, please inform our staff at the reception desk on site. You may also withdraw your consent at any later date.

This meeting is generously supported by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation.

Thursday 30 January

10:00 → 12:00 Communications splinter (opt-in)

Convener: Susanne Milde (Milde Marketing)

10:00 Introduction and Overview of ET Communication

Speaker: Susanne Milde (Milde Marketing)

2025_01_30_ETD_Hamburg_6.pptx

10:15 RU Hamburg - Communications: Katharina Isleif

Speaker: Prof. Katharina-Sophie Isleif (HSU (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität), DESY)

20250131_ET_ComunicationMeeting_Hamburg.pptx

10:30 AEI Communications

Speaker: Benjamin Knispel (AEI)

ET Germany Comm Splinter MPI Grav 20250130.pdf

10:45 ET-PP Social Media Activities

Speaker: Sascha Rieger (Milde Marketing)

2025_01_30_ETD_Hamburg_Social Media + Web_3-1.ppsx

11:00 Discussion of communications activities and plans

12:30 → 13:00 Arrival / Coffee / small snacks

For a full dinner please use the CFEL canteen or the DESY canteen.

13:00 → 13:15 Welcome & Opening

20250130_ET_Germany_Meeting.pdf

13:15 → 14:15 Keynote

Speaker: Samaya Nissanke (University of Amsterdam)

ETinGermanyKeynote.pdf

14:15 → 15:00 ET Status in Europe and Germany

Speaker: Harald Lueck (Albert Einstein Institute)

ET_Status_EU_DE_pub.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Topical Workshops: How to contribute to the ET detector and its baseline design

Conveners: David Wu (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Steffen Grohmann (KIT)

ET_German_Meeting_Workshop_V2.pdf

15:30 → 17:00 Topical Workshops: Theory, Astrophysic, Data analysis

Conveners: Frank Ohme (AEI), Geraldine Servant (T (Cosmology))

ET_German_Meeting_Workshop_V2.pdf

15:30 Report on ET Blue Book section “OSB Div1: Fundamental Physics

Speaker: Rafael Porto (DESY)

ET_div1.pdf

15:50 Report on ET Blue Book section “Synergies with other GW observatories"

Speaker: Samaya Nissanke (U. Amsterdam)

OSB_Div5_Synergies_GWcommunityDay25.pdf

16:10 Harnessing the Peculiarities of the Einstein Telescope for Advanced Data Analysis

Speaker: Anuradha Samajdar (Utrecht)

ET_data_analysis_samajdar.pdf

16:30 Open conversation “Which are the priorities and challenges for the German ET community in Theory & data analysis? What can you contribute to?”

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 → 18:00 Topical Workshop summary (Plenary)

Workshop1-summary.pdf

18:15 → 19:00 Bus shuttle from CFEL to Cap San Diego

19:00 → 23:00 Social Dinner

Friday 31 January

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee

09:00 → 09:30 LVK Status and Plans

Speaker: Dr Mikhail Korobko (Universität Hamburg)

korobko_LVK_status_lq.pdf

09:30 → 10:05 Status ET Organisation and ET Project

Speaker: Andreas Freise (VU Amsterdam and Nikhef)

Freise_ETO_250131.pdf

10:05 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 11:10 Probing the early universe and high-energy particle physics with ET

Speaker: Geraldine Servant (T (Cosmology))

Servant-ET-Cosmo-Hamburg2025.pdf

11:10 → 11:35 Si Crystal Growth for ET

Speaker: Dr Robert Menzel (Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ))

Si crystal Growth for ET.pdf

11:35 → 12:00 WAVE Seismic Network in Hamburg

Speakers: Celine Hadziioannou (Universität Hamburg, Institute of Geophysics), Prof. Katharina-Sophie Isleif (HSU (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität), DESY)

20250131_ET_Meeting_Hamburg.pptx

12:00 → 12:10 Conclusive remarks

13:00 → 15:00 Lab Tours (opt-in)