Seminar archive

Published by admin on Friday, January 21, 2022

Previous seminars given to the UMiss gravity group

2025:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of talk
March 26 Raj Patil AEI Potsdam Precision Gravity: Gravitational waves using Feynman diagrams
April 16 Konstantinos Kritos Johns Hopkins Merging black holes in star clusters
April 28 Patrick Dawson University of Sydney Prospects for presentism in the context of modern physics
April 30 Macarena Lagos UNAB Nonlinear gravitational wave ringdown

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