Seminar archive

Published by admin on Friday, January 21, 2022

Previous seminars given to the UMiss gravity group

2024:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of talk
03/21/2024 Isobel Romero-Shaw University of Cambridge Decoding the Gravitational-Wave Biographies of Binary Black Holes
03/28/2024 Yanyan Zheng Missouri S&T Detecting gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae
04/11/2024 Sebastian Völkel AEI Potsdam One ring to rule them all? Quasi-normal modes and the black hole ringdown
04/25/2024 Shrobana Ghosh AEI Hannover Inspiral-Merger-Ringdown waveform modeling to estimate spins of astrophysical black holes
07/12/2024 Divya Singh Penn State Exploring Dark Matter with Gravitational Wave observations
07/26/2024 Isabella Pretto Caltech Determining the end time of junk radiation in binary black hole simulations
09/26/2024 Nils Vu Caltech Solving elliptic equations on supercomputers - black holes, thermal noise, and self force
10/31/2024 Jan Kożuszek Imperial The dynamics of dRGT massive gravity
11/14/2024 David Shlivko Princeton Beyond the cosmological constant: Detecting dynamical dark energy
11/21/2024 Sizheng Ma Perimeter Black Hole Spectroscopy Beyond Linear Quasinormal Modes

2023:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of talk
02/22/2023 Elena Giorgi Columbia University Black Hole Stability Problems in GR
03/22/2022 Michael Pajkos Caltech Cause & Effect: How Relativity Impacts Our Understanding of Supernova Evolution
04/12/2022 José Tomás G. Ghersi Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología: Lima, Lima, PE Dimensional deformation of sine-Gordon breathers into oscillons
06/07/2023 Rita Teixeira da Costa Princeton Revisiting mode stability for Kerr(-dS) black holes
07/05/2023 Sharan Banagiri Northwestern Accessing the astrophysical significance of gravitational-wave triggers: A unified p-astro approach
07/14/2023 Aru Beri IISER Mohali Probing strong field gravity using fast-timing and multi-wavelength diagnostics and prospects with X-ray polarization
08/16/2023 Anıl Zenginoğlu Maryland Hyperbolic Geometry and Black Holes
09/18/2023 Bence Bécsy Oregon State University Nanohertz gravitational waves: the cosmic symphony and its soloists
10/23/2023 Justin Ripley University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Probing internal dissipative processes of neutron stars with gravitational waves during the inspiral
11/17/2023 Laura Sberna Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics New problems and methods in black hole perturbation theory

2022:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of talk
02/10/2022 Tanja Hinderer Utrecht University Probing subatomic physics with gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals
03/10/2022 Bin Liu Niels Bohr Institute Binary dynamics near a rotating supermassive black hole
04/21/2022 Lisa Drummond MIT Precisely computing bound orbits of spinning bodies around black holes
05/31/2022 Tousif Islam University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Surrogate model for gravitational wave signals from non-spinning, comparable- to large-mass-ratio black hole binaries built on black hole perturbation theory waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity
06/28/2022 Alex Vano-Vinuales ULisboa Current numerical efforts on free hyperboloidal evolution
07/19/2022 Fabrizio Di Giovanni University of Valencia Nonlinear dynamics of boson and fermion-boson stars
10/03/2022 Mikhail Solon UCLA Quantum Field Theory Tools for Gravitational Wave Science
10/24/2022 Anna Ijjas NYU Advancing Cosmology with Numerical Relativity
11/14/2022 Aaron Zimmerman UT Austin Transition dynamics in numerical simulations and ringdown beyond-GR

2021:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of talk
02/18/2021 Niels Warburton University College Dublin Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals
03/18/2021 Deborah Ferguson University of Texas, Austin Assessing the Preparedness of Numerical Relativity for Current and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors
04/07/2021 Sara Issaoun Radboud University, Netherlands Magnetic Fields Near a Black Hole
04/29/2021 Sabrina Pasterski Princeton University Progress in Celestial Amplitudes
06/24/2021 Imre Bartos University of Florida Black hole assembly lines in AGN disks
07/15/2021 Sajal Mukherjee Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences Detecting Gravitationl Waves from Hyperbolic encounters
08/05/2021 Will Farr Stony Brook University Ringing Black Holes, Massive Neutron Stars, and Black Hole Cosmology: Recent Results and Future Directions from LIGO and Virgo’s Observations of Gravitational Waves
08/12/2021 Tomas Galvez Ghersi CITA, Canada @duetosymmetrybreaking(Rescheduled)
08/19/2021 Paolo Pani Sapienza University, Rome, Italy Black-hole microstate spectroscopy
10/07/2021 Xiang Li Caltech Angular emission patterns of remnant black holes — Towards a more complete temporal-spatial fitting
12/02/2021 Károly Czukás U Mississippi Numerical investigation of linear perturbations and solutions to constraint equations in general relativity
12/09/2021 Nathan Johnson-McDaniel U Mississippi Extracting information from gravitational-wave observations: From tests of general relativity to astrophysics

2020:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of talk
10/01/2020 David Hilditch CENTRA, Lisboa Putting Infinity on the Grid
10/15/2020 Sarah Vigeland University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Merging Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes: Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays
11/12/2020 Rob Farmer University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Mind the gap: What can we learn about stellar astrophysics from gravitational wave detections of binary black holes?
12/10/2020 Edgar Shaghoulian University of Pennsylvania Replica wormholes and the black hole information paradox