Name: Foundations of the Theory of Gravitational Waves
Start: 2016-10-09T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-10-11T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Albanova University Center

Foundations of the Theory of Gravitational Waves

from Sunday 9 October 2016 (09:00) to Tuesday 11 October 2016 (19:00)

Monday 3 October 2016
Tuesday 4 October 2016
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Thursday 6 October 2016
Friday 7 October 2016
Saturday 8 October 2016
Sunday 9 October 2016

Monday 10 October 2016
08:45 Welcome - Stephan Rosswog
Welcome
- Stephan Rosswog
08:45 - 09:00
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
09:00 Gravitational waves and fundamental physics - Gary Gibbons
Gravitational waves and fundamental physics
- Gary Gibbons
09:00 - 09:50
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
09:50 The history of the theory of gravitational waves - Daniel Kennefick
The history of the theory of gravitational waves
- Daniel Kennefick
09:50 - 10:40
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
11:10 Andrzej Trautman in a Krzysztof Zanussi film
Andrzej Trautman in a Krzysztof Zanussi film
11:10 - 11:25
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
11:25 Matematical foundations of the theory of gravitational waves - Piotr Chruściel
Matematical foundations of the theory of gravitational waves
- Piotr Chruściel
11:25 - 12:15
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
12:15 Gravitational waves and analytic relativity - Thibault Damour
Gravitational waves and analytic relativity
- Thibault Damour
12:15 - 13:15
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
14:30 Gravitational waves and neutron star mergers - Luciano Rezzolla
Gravitational waves and neutron star mergers
- Luciano Rezzolla
14:30 - 15:20
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
15:20 Gravitational waves and black hole mergers - Bernd Brügmann
Gravitational waves and black hole mergers
- Bernd Brügmann
15:20 - 16:10
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
16:40 Neutron star mergers: what else apart from gravitational waves? - Stephan Rosswog
Neutron star mergers: what else apart from gravitational waves?
- Stephan Rosswog
16:40 - 17:10
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
17:10 Gravitational waves, dark matter and dark energy - Edvard Mörtsell
Gravitational waves, dark matter and dark energy
- Edvard Mörtsell
17:10 - 17:40
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
17:40 Gravitational waves and alternative theories of gravity - Fawad Hassan
Gravitational waves and alternative theories of gravity
- Fawad Hassan
17:40 - 18:10
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium, FR5
18:30 Buffet dinner, poster session
Buffet dinner, poster session
18:30 - 19:50
Room: AlbaNova restaurant
19:50 A few final words - Lars Brink
A few final words
- Lars Brink
19:50 - 20:00
Room: AlbaNova restaurant
Tuesday 11 October 2016
09:00 Electromagnetic emission from gravitational wave events, and what we might learn - Andrew King
Electromagnetic emission from gravitational wave events, and what we might learn
- Andrew King
09:00 - 09:30
Room: FB42
09:30 Gravitational-wave emission from ultra-compact objects - Vitor Cardoso
Gravitational-wave emission from ultra-compact objects
- Vitor Cardoso
09:30 - 10:00
Room: FB42
10:00 Boson stars - Philippe Grandclément
Boson stars
- Philippe Grandclément
10:00 - 10:30
Room: FB42
11:00 Testing the black hole hypothesis with gravitational wave observations - Scott Hughes
Testing the black hole hypothesis with gravitational wave observations
- Scott Hughes
11:00 - 11:30
Room: FB42
11:30 PN approximation and GW physics - Gerhard Schäfer
PN approximation and GW physics
- Gerhard Schäfer
11:30 - 12:00
Room: FB42
12:00 Asymptotic behaviour of GW - Paweł Nurowski
Asymptotic behaviour of GW
- Paweł Nurowski
12:00 - 12:30
Room: FB42
14:00 Poster session
Poster session
14:00 - 15:00
Room: FB42
15:00 Stochastic GW Background - Michele Maggiore
Stochastic GW Background
- Michele Maggiore
15:00 - 15:30
Room: FB42
15:30 Massive black hole binaries: astrophysics and gravitational waves - Alberto Sesana
Massive black hole binaries: astrophysics and gravitational waves
- Alberto Sesana
15:30 - 16:00
Room: FB42
16:00 Quantum gravity and gravitational waves - Petr Hořava
Quantum gravity and gravitational waves
- Petr Hořava
16:00 - 16:30
Room: FB42
17:00 Conference summary - Luis Lehner
Conference summary
- Luis Lehner
17:00 - 17:30
Room: FB42
17:30 Final discussion
Final discussion
17:30 - 18:30
Room: FB42

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