Fourth Dutch Gravitational Wave meeting

Friday 20 Feb 2015, 10:00 → 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Leiden

G. Nelemans (Radboud University)

Gravitational wave research in the Netherlands is rapidly taking shape and is becoming increasingly diverse. We organise the fourth Dutch National GW meeting, in order to bring together astronomers and physicists interested in gravitational wave science and inform each other of developments and new projects. The meeting will be held on Friday, February 20th 2015, at the Leiden University.

The day will start with a keynote lecture by Chiara Caprini on Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe followed by a talk by  Alexey Starobinsky. There will be overview talks on general topics/experiments as well as contributed talks on specific projects, particularly for students and post-docs.

The meeting is open to all interested researchers, also from outside the Netherlands. Please register at and contact us by e-mail to submit an abstract.

10:00 → 17:30 Talks: Room 106/7 in Huygens building

10:00 Coffee/Tea

10:30 Keynote: GW from the Early Universe

Speaker: Chiara Caprini (CEA)

11:10 Comments on the present situation with gravitational waves from inflation

Speaker: Alexei Starobinsky

11:30 Update on Pulsar Timing Arrays

Speaker: Gemma Janssen (ASTRON)

12:00 Update on Virgo/LIGO

Speaker: Jo van den Brand (VU/Nikhef)

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Update on eLISA

Speaker: G. Nelemans (Radboud University)

13:50 Ballistic orbits for gravitational waves

Speaker: Giuseppe d'Ambrosi (Nikhef)

14:10 Relativistic dynamics of orbits near a supermassive black hole — implications for extreme mass ratio inspirals

Speaker: Adrian Hamers (Leiden Observatory)

14:30 Testing the no-hair theorem with black hole ringdowns

Speaker: Jeroen Meidam (Nikhef)

14:50 Coffee/Tea

15:20 BlackGEM

Speaker: Steven Bloemen (RU)

15:40 Dutch Instrumentation in Advanced Virgo: Vibration Isolation

Speaker: Joris van Heijningen (Nikhef)

16:00 Hunt for optical counterparts for gravitational wave events

Speaker: Shaon Ghosh (RU)

16:20 Cosmic string investigations within the EPTA

Speaker: Sotirios Sanidas (UvA)

16:40 B-modes and the sound speed of primordial fluctuations

Speaker: Gonzalo Palma (Santiago, Chile)

17:00 Drinks