Pau Amaro-Seoane * LISA Astro-GR@AEI *

LISA Astro-GR@AEI
(EMRIs and IMRIs)

Introduction

I am planning a 5 days meeting from Monday 18th to Friday, September 22nd 2006 on LISA GW sources.

This is thought to be run in the style of Aspen/ITP/Newton Institute/ Modest meetings, which means that it will be informal:
no registration fee, nor poster presentation, nor proceedings.

We will have a small number of review talks and slots for other presentations (especially from PhD students and postdocs).

A key aim of LISA Astro-GR is to foster and develop new collaborative ventures as well as to strengthen existing ones within the
different communities of the study of Gravitational Waves Physics: Astrophysics, General Relativity and Data Analysis.

We will focus on EMRIs and IMRIs (Extreme and Intermediate Mass-Ratio Inspiral events); i.e. captures of stellar-mass compact
objects by supermassive black holes and coalescence of intermediate-mass black holes with supermassive black holes.

The meeting will be held in the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), within the Max-Planck
campus in Golm (Potsdam). For those participants who arrive on Sunday, September 17th, there will be an informal welcome meeting
in a pub in Berlin. Details will be posted here later.

Topics

Although the interest of the locals is focused on

Astroph. modelling of GW sources
General Relativity
Data analysis

for EMRIs and IMRIs, we would welcome other topics to be covered, but this certainly depends on the participants and their suggestions.

We suggest leaving plenty of room for discussions. However we encourage everyone who wants to present part of his work during the workshop
in a prepared talk to let us know before arriving here.

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News:

The number of people willing to take part in this meeting has shown to be so big that due to place reasons,
the morning sessions will take place in the seminar room of the Fraunhofer IAP, very close to the AEI
(walking distance of three minutes). In the link you'll find a description to reach the institute. The morning
sessions will take place in the seminar room (number 1.404), which is in the ground floor, near the main entrance,
on your right when you go into the building. The room is equipped with wireless connection. If you need a wired one,
you'll be able to connect at the AEI every afternoon.

Registration, fee and financial support

The format and venue for LISA Astro-GR@AEI will limit the number of attendees. We thus kindly ask every participant to register
as soon as s/he makes travel arrangements and to avoid disappointment. In keeping with the spirit of an informal workshop, there
will be no registration fee. Nonetheless, we will have means to offer at least partially financial assistance to some of the participants,
but this will certainly depend on each individual case.

To register just send me an e-mail (pau AT aei.mpg.de) with the followings details:

Name + Surname
Institute
Area of interest for the purposes of this meeting
Would you like to give a talk? (work in progress also fine)
Do you expect financial support from us?

As for the accomodation, please send an e-mail to Mrs Ute Schlichting (Ute.Schlichting AT aei.mpg.de). We have agreements with some hotels from
which you could benefit. She will arrange for you the reservation etc.

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News: The price for a hotel room at the Mercure hotel in Potsdam are 65€ (single room) or, if you decide to share a room
with another participant, 79€ (double room)

We have reserved 30 rooms there and need your corroboration, otherwise we cannot guarantee at all that you will get one and very probably you
will have to look for something by yourself (and the price of what youfind will probably be much more expensive or further away).

Venue

There is a good description of the way to the AEI in this link and you can additionally have a look at the AEI map

If you are staying in Potsdam/Golm you might find a map of Potsdam useful (pdf file) as well as some information on Potsdam
(have a look at the links on the bottom), plus food joints

If you prefer a larger city, this is an interactive map to Berlin and some information on Berlin, plus food joints and free time

How to get to the institute(s) from Golm train station :

(please note that the links display a picture of the corresponding path on firefox, windows IE but not on safari; please follow THIS LINK FOR PLAIN-PRINTABLE VERSION OF THE WAY)

Please read the section "By train" of this link in order to find out how to get from Potsdam train station to Golm.
Make sure you take the train to Wustermark

Train to Wustermark Once you've arrived
to Golm train station (third stop from Potsdam train station), you have to get off from the right side of the train (in the direction of motion
of the train). Then you have to cross the tracks and get to the other platform.
To do so, just go to the stairs that lead to the bridge

Usually a lot of people will be doing the same way. Follow them following the indication "Max Planck Campus".
Once you're on the other side go up the few steps

The way is indicated with blue signs that lead you to the beginning of the path to the AEI/Fraunhofer Institute. If you're
lucky some people will be doing the same way and you just have to follow them. Otherwise don't worry because it's rather simple.
You can either bear right at the junction

The LEFT one is the official path or left. The right path is the fastest but has the inconvinient of having to cross a hole at its end.
The left one is the official one.

If you go the right path

Way through a field you will go a nice path through a field on whose right side you will see a building on construction. At the end of the
path you'll see the famous hole

Bottomless pit (starring Badri Krishnan and Stas Babak) which you'll have to cross (a bit of gymnastics is good!) It's not that dangerous. We
just have one casualty every 10 scientists.

If you go the left path

The official asphalted way then you'll walk an asphalted way which is actually goes around the field

After about 25m to the right from the "famous hole" you'll see a post to the entrance to the
IAP (Fraunhofer Institute) where the first session takes place on Monday at 9h30
and also many others. We will signpost the way to the room 1.404 of IAP anyway and post a bill
with LISA Astro-GR@AEI. Just follow it.

In any case both pathes converge just behind the hole and you have to follow the way

We're closeruntil on your left you leave the
MPI guest house

MPI Guest House Just follow straight right and behind the main building you'll see the AEI.

Timetables, tickes and fares information :

Here you have the timetable for the connections between Potsdam train station and Golm (pdf)

Here you have the timetable for the connections between Golm and Potsdam train station (pdf)

(please note that the times are mostly focused to the meeting, a more detailed timetable is available in the train station of Potsdam or online below)

Here you will find the tickets and fares information

Here you will find an online timetable research motor

Confirmed participants : 62
Name (Institute, Place, Interest*) email (<-at-> =@)

*Astro=Astrophysics
GR=General Relativity
DA=Data Analysis
Exp=Detectors

Gopakumar Achamveedu (ITP, Jena, GR) gopu<-at->tpi.uni-jena.de,

Tal Alexander (Weizmann Inst. Sc., Rehovot, Astro) tal.alexander<-at->weizmann.ac.il,

Pau Amaro-Seoane (AEI, Potsdam, Astro) pau<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Carsten Aulbert (AEI, Potsdam, GR) carsten.aulbert<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Stas Babak (AEI, Potsdam, GR, DA) stba<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Leor Barack (Uni. of Southampton, GR) L.Barack<-at->soton.ac.uk,

Enrico Barausse (SISSA/ISAS, GR, Astro) barausse<-at->sissa.it,

Pete Bender (JILA, Univ. of Colorado, Astro) pbender<-at->jila.colorado.edu,

Emanuele Berti (Washington Uni. in Saint Louis, GR, Astro) berti<-at->wugrav.wustl.edu,

Ingo Berentzen (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut/ZAH, Astro) iberent<-at->pa.uky.edu,

Jeandrew Brink (Caltech, Astro, GR) jeandrew<-at->tapir.caltech.edu,

Zhoujian Cao (Inst. Appl. Math., Chinese Acad. Sc., GR, DA) zjcao<-at->amt.ac.cn,

Yanbei Chen (AEI, Potsdam, GR, Exp) yanbei<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Monica Colpi (Dip. di Fisica G. Occhialini, Milan, Astro) Monica.Colpi<-at->mib.infn.it,

Curt Cutler (JPL, Caltech, GR, Astro) Curt.J.Cutler<-at->jpl.nasa.gov,

Melvyn B. Davies (Lund Observatory, Astro) mbd<-at->astro.lu.se,

Steve Drasco (JPL, Caltech, GR, DA) sdrasco<-at->jpl.nasa.gov,

Emili Elizalde (ICE & IEEC/ CSIC, Barcelona, GR) elizalde<-at->ieec.fcr.es,

M. Ayub Faridi (Centre for High Energy Physics, Uni Punjab, Pakistan, GR) ayubfaridi<-at->chep.pu.edu.pk,

Sam Finn (Penn State, Astro, GR, DA, Exp) LSFinn<-at->psu.edu,

Marc Freitag (IoA, Cambridge, Astro) marc.freitag<-at->gmail.com,

Jonathan Gair (IoA, Cambridge, GR, DA) jrg23<-at->cam.ac.uk,

Iraj Gholami (AEI, Potsdam, DA) Iraj.Gholami<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Kostas Glampedakis (University of Southampton, GR) kg1<-at->maths.soton.ac.uk,

Ato Gürkan (Astro. Ins. Anton Pannekoek, Amsterdam, Astro) ato.gurkan<-at->gmail.com,

Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Penn State University, Astro) kellyhb<-at->gravity.psu.edu,

Clovis Hopman (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Astro) clovis.hopman<-at->weizmann.ac.il,

Sascha Husa (Inst. Th Physics, Uni. of Jena, GR) sascha.husa<-at->uni-jena.de,

Thorsten Kellermann (AEI, Potsdam, GR) kellerma<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Gábor Kupi (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut/ZAH, Astro) kupiga<-at->ari.uni-heidelberg.de,

Dong-Hoon Kim (AEI, Potsdam, GR) dhkim<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Kostas Kokkotas (Dep. of Physics, Aristotle Uni Thessaloniki, GR, Astro) kokkotas<-at->auth.gr,

Michael Koppitz (NASA/ AEI, GR) koppitz<-at->milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov,

Badri Krishnan (AEI, Potsdam, GR, DA) badkri<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Yuri Levin (Leiden Observatory, Astro) yuri<-at->strw.leidenuniv.nl,

Chao Li (Caltech, GR, DA) lichao<-at->caltech.edu,

Ilya Mandel (Caltech, GR, DA) ilya<-at->caltech.edu,

Murli Manohar Verma (Lucknow Uni, GR) sunilmmv<-at->yahoo.com,

Cole Miller (University of Maryland, Astro) miller<-at->astro.umd.edu,

Jordi Miralda-Escudé (IEEC, Barcelona, Astro) miralda<-at->aliga.ieec.uab.es,

Archana Pai (AEI, Potsdam, DA, GR, Exp) pai<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Miguel Preto (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut/ZAH, Astro) miguelp<-at->ari.uni-heidelberg.de,

Reinhard Prix (AEI, Potsdam, Astro, DA) Reinhard.Prix<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Luciano Rezzolla (AEI, Potsdam, Astro, GR) rezzolla<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Norichika Sago (University of Southampton, GR) N.Sago<-at->soton.ac.uk,

Michael Salamon (NASA Headqs, GR, DA) michael.h.salamon<-at->nasa.gov,

Carsten Schneemann (AEI, Potsdam, GR) carsten.schneemann<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Bernard Schutz (AEI, Potsdam, GR, DA, Astro) Bernard.Schutz<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Bishnu Sharma (Birendra Mult. Campus, Astro) kc_yuwak<-at->yahoo.com,

Deirdre Shoemaker (Penn State University, Astro, GR, DA) deirdre<-at->gravity.psu.edu,

Alícia Sintes-Olives (AEI, Potsdam/ Dep Física Universitat Illes Balears, DA, GR) sintes<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Kentaro Somiya (AEI, Potsdam, Exp) somiya<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Rainer Spurzem (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut/ZAH, Astro) spurzem<-at->ari.uni-heidelberg.de,

Ladislav Subr (AIfA, Bonn, Astro, GR) subr<-at->sirrah.troja.mff.cuni.cz,

Bela Szilagyi (AEI, Potsdam, Astro, GR) szilagyi<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Hirotaka Takahashi (AEI, Potsdam, GR, DA) hirotaka.takahashi<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Jonathan Thornburg (AEI, Potsdam, GR, Astro) jthorn<-at->aei.mpg.de,

Alberto Vecchio (Uni Birmingham, GR, DA) av<-at->star.sr.bham.ac.uk,

Leonid Verozub (Kharkov Uni, Gr, Astro) Leonid.V.Verozub<-at->univer.kharkov.ua,

Linqing Wen (AEI, Potsdam, DA) lwen<-at->aei.mpg.de,

John Whelan (AEI, Potsdam, GR, DA) john.whelan<-at->aei.mpg.de,

K.C. Yuwak (Res. Centre for App. Sc. and Tech, Astro) kc_yuwak<-at->yahoo.com

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