Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Fundamental Physics

Europe/Rome
IFPU, Miramare campus, Trieste, Italy

IFPU, Miramare campus, Trieste, Italy

Via Beirut 2, Trieste, Italy
Description

 

3rd meeting of the GWVerse COST action

The long-held promise of gravitational-wave astronomy as a new window onto the universe has finally materialized. We have taken but the first steps along a new, exciting avenue that has now opened before us. The harvesting of useful information from gravitational-wave signals and the understanding of its broader implications demand a cross-disciplinary effort. How, when and in which environment were black holes formed? How fast do they spin and how have some of them grown to become supermassive? Can black hole mergers inform us on the nature and distribution of dark matter? Are there new fundamental degrees of freedom? Gravitational waves will allow for precise tests of General Relativity, and of the black hole paradigm itself. However, to be able to collect and interpret the information encoded in the GWs, one has to be equipped with faithful and accurate theoretical models of the predicted waveforms. To accomplish the far-reaching goals of gravitational-wave science it is of paramount importance to bring together expertise over a very broad range of topics, from astrophysics and cosmology, through general-relativistic source modelling to particle physics and other areas of fundamental science.

In 2016, a short time before the announcement of the first gravitational-wave detection, a cross-disciplinary initiative in Europe led to the establishment of the new CA16104 COST networking Action on "Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics'' ("GWverse''). GWverse aims to maintain and consolidate leadership in black-hole physics and gravitational-wave science. The Action supports the training of the next generation of leaders in the field, and the very first "native'' GW/multi-messenger astronomers, ready to tackle the challenges of high-precision GW astronomy with ground and space-based detectors.

The third global meeting of the Action will take place in Trieste, Jan 14-16 2020. A meeting of the board of the action is scheduled for Jan 13.

Scientific Organising CommitteeLeor Barack (Southampton), Enrico Barausse (SISSA), Vitor Cardoso (CENTRA), Valeria Ferrari (Rome Sapienza), Stefano Liberati (SISSA), Samaya Nissanke (GRAPPA), Thomas Sotiriou (Nottingham)

Local Organising Committee: Enrico Barausse, Alexandru Dima, Jaumila Gonzalez, Stefano Liberati, Giovanni Tambalo, Sebastian Volkel.

 

Participants
  • Adolfo Cisterna
  • Adrian del Rio Vega
  • Adrian Ottewill
  • Alberto Mangiagli
  • Alex Bentley Nielsen
  • Alexandre Toubiana
  • Alexandros Karam
  • Alexandru Dima
  • Ali Seraj
  • Alicia M Sintes
  • Andrea Lapi
  • Andrea Maselli
  • Andrea Trombettoni
  • Andreja. Gomboc
  • Andrew Coates
  • Anna Puecher
  • Antoine Lehébel
  • Anupam Mazumdar
  • Anuradha Samajdar
  • Banafsheh Shiralilou
  • Barry Wardell
  • Bert Vercnocke
  • Betul Demirkaya
  • Beyhan Karakaş
  • Béatrice Bonga
  • Caner Unal
  • Carlo Baccigalupi
  • Carlos F. Sopuerta
  • Carlos Herdeiro
  • Cecília Gergely
  • Chithra Piyadasa
  • Christopher Eckner
  • Christos Chalkias
  • Christos Charmousis
  • Christos Mermigkas
  • Costantino Pacilio
  • Daniel Mayerson
  • Daniela Doneva
  • Daniele Pranzetti
  • Dennis Hansen
  • Diana-Cristiana Popescu
  • Dimitra Tseneklidou
  • Dmitry Gal'tsov
  • Dorota Rosinska
  • Edi Bon
  • Eduard Larrañaga
  • Elvis Barakovic
  • Emil Nissimov
  • Enrico Catalano
  • Fabio Moretti
  • Federica Sassano
  • FETHI MUBIN RAMAZANOGLU
  • Francesco Di Filippo
  • Francisco Duque
  • Francois Foucart
  • Frederic Vincent
  • Gabriel Andres Piovano
  • Gabrijela Zaharijas
  • Gauri Sharma
  • George Pappas
  • Georgios Antoniou
  • Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos
  • Georgios Vretinaris
  • Germano Nardini
  • Giovanni Gandolfi
  • Giovanni Tambalo
  • Giovanni Villadoro
  • Giovany Cruz
  • Giulia Ventagli
  • Giulio Scelfo
  • Glykeria Mangaloudi
  • Guilherme Raposo
  • Igor Bogush
  • Ilia Musco
  • IOANNIS BARESIS
  • Ippocratis Saltas
  • Isabel Suárez Fernández
  • Istvan Racz
  • Ivan Vasquez
  • Jackson Levi Said
  • Jaumila Gonzalez
  • Jose Guillermo Lara Delgado
  • Kadri Yakut
  • Kevin Wolz
  • Kostas Glampedakis
  • Kunihito Uzawa
  • Kutay Arınç Çokluk
  • Kwinten Fransen
  • Kyriakos Destounis
  • Laszlo Arpad Gergely
  • Laura Sberna
  • Lautaro Amadei
  • Leonardo Gualtieri
  • Leonardo Trombetta
  • Leor Barack
  • Lorenzo Annulli
  • Lotte ter Haar
  • Luca Marzola
  • Lucas Gardai Collodel
  • Luciano Rezzolla
  • Lumen Boco
  • Manuel Hohmann
  • Marco Crisostomi
  • Marco Quaglia
  • Marcos Valdes
  • Maria Chernyakova
  • Marika Giulietti
  • Mario Herrero-Valea
  • Marta Volonteri
  • Martina Toscani
  • Mateja Bošković
  • Matteo Viel
  • Maximiliano Isi
  • Md Arif Shaikh
  • Mekhi Dhesi
  • Miguel Bezares
  • Miguel Zilhão
  • Monica Colpi
  • Nemanja Rakic
  • Nicola Franchini
  • Niels Obers
  • Niels Warburton
  • Nikolaos Chatzarakis
  • Nikolaos Karnesis
  • Nikolas Andreou
  • Nuno M. Santos
  • Oliver Long
  • Orlenys Troconis
  • Paolo Creminelli
  • Paolo Marcoccia
  • Paolo Pani
  • Partha Sarathi Majumdar
  • Pau Amaro Seoane
  • Pradyumn Sahoo
  • Raffaella Schneider
  • Raquel Santos Garcia
  • Recai Erdem
  • Richard Brito
  • Rob Tielemans
  • Roberto Oliveri
  • Rodrigo Vicente
  • Samaya Nissanke
  • sandipan Sengupta
  • Sayak Datta
  • Sebastian Völkel
  • Semih Kacmaz
  • Sergey Tsygankov
  • Simone Speziale
  • Sohyun Park
  • Sourabh Nampalliwar
  • Stamatis Vretinaris
  • Stefano Liberati
  • Stephen Green
  • Stoytcho Yazadjiev
  • Sudipta Hensh
  • Sudipta Sarkar
  • Susana Oliveira Novais
  • Swetha Bhagwat
  • Taishi Ikeda
  • Thanasis Giannakopoulos
  • Thomas Sotiriou
  • Tommaso De Lorenzo
  • Troels Harmark
  • Uma Papnoi
  • Valeria Ferrari
  • Vedad Pasic
  • Victor E. Ambrus
  • Viktor Gakis
  • Vitor Cardoso
  • Yosef Verbin
  • Zakaria BELKHADRIA
  • Zeljka Bosnjak
  • Enrico Barausse