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

LISA Astro-GR@AEI
* Programme *

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18 September - Monday * Review talks: Astrophysics of galactic nuclei for LISA *

Morning session

Chairman: Curt Cutler, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

9h30 What is all this about? A Howto to the meeting - Pau Amaro-Seoane - (slides, movie)

Review talks Astro I

10h00 Massive Black Holes - Cole Miller - (slides, movie)

10h45 Galaxy mergers and the formation of massive binary BHs - Monica Colpi - (slides, movie)

11h30 - 11h50 Break

11h50 Stellar dynamics in galactic nuclei - Marc Freitag - (slides, movie)

12h35 Gas dynamics in galactic nuclei - Jordi Miralda-Escudé - (slides, movie)

13h20 - LUNCH

Afternoon session

Chairman: Marc Freitag, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

Review talks Astro II

14h30 SMBHs and LISA: PN astrophysical modelling - Rainer Spurzem - (slides, movie)

15h15 The astrophysics of EMRIs - Clovis Hopman - (slides, movie)

Open discussion: Formation of satellite groups and respective organizers

Chairman: Pau Amaro-Seoane, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

Formation of mixed (astro/gr) satellite groups
LISA Astro-GR@AEI questions assignment/ discussion
If time allows us: First breakout of group

19 September - Tuesday * Review talks: GR/DA in the context of galactic nuclei and LISA *

Morning session

Chairman: Yanbei Chen, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

Review talks GR I

10h00 Programmatic update on LISA from NASA HQ - Michael Salamon

10h45 12 great months in numerical relativity - Luciano Rezzolla - (slides, movie)

11h30 - 11h50 Break

11h50 Overview on LISA DA - Bernard Schutz - (slides, movie)

12h35 EMRIs: Data analysis and detection strategies - Curt Cutler

13h20 - LUNCH

Afternoon session

Chairman: Sam Finn, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

Review talks GR II

14h30 - Modelling EMRI waveforms - Leor Barack - (slides)

15h15 - Testing GR using observations of EMRIs - Jonathan Gair - (slides, movie)

Open discussion I: Discussions of specific topics in satellite groups (Satellite A:FR, Satellite B:SRAEI)
FR= Fraunhofer
SRAEI = Seminar room AEI (ground floor)

20 September - Wednesday * Group cross-over and summary preparation *

Morning session

Chairman: Pau Amaro-Seoane, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

Open discussion II: Cross-over of satellites

10h00 - Group cross-over: Answering possible questions arised during the open discussion I

11h30 - 11h50 Break

Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP, AEI Seminar room etc...

11h50 - Open discussion II: Discussions of specific topics in satellite groups (Satellite A:FR, Satellite B:SRAEI)
FR= Fraunhofer
SRAEI = Seminar room AEI (ground floor)

13h20 - LUNCH

Rest of the day: Free - Here you are a few links: Berlin, yet Berlin, Potsdam, Potsdam plus food joints, Park Sanssouci - Pub (to be announced)
This is an interactive map to Berlin and some information on Berlin, plus food joints and free time

Optionally:

1· At 14h00 there is a seminar given by the Prof. A. Zeilinger in the central building

Time to be announced (but later in the afternoon, after summary preparation) :

Chairman: Pau Amaro-Seoane, Place: Conference room AEI (nr. 1.15)

2· Discussion on Astrophysical numerical codes w/o relativistic effects and possible usage for I/EMRIs

(Other possible discussions can be spontaneously arranged by the participants but please contact the local organizers well in advance)

21 September - Thursday * Mixed presentations and summary preparation *

Morning session

Chairman: Melvyn Davies, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

9h40 - The LISC website: How to keep in touch with the LISA community - Markus Poessel - (slides, movie)

More specific talks

10h00 - Gravitational wave bursts from extreme mass ratio encounters - Sam Finn - (slides, movie)

10h30 - Waveform models and parameter estimation for IMRIs - Emanuele Berti - (slides, movie)

11h00 - Dynamics in a central potential with an axisymmetric perturbation - Ladislav Subr - (slides, movie)

11h30 - 11h50 Break

11h50 - Source tracking and 'beamforming' of LISA - Archana Pai - (slides, movie)

12h20 - The Galactic Centre as a laboratory for EMRI dynamics - Tal Alexander - (slides, movie)

12h50 - Mapping spacetime with LISA, Ryan's theorem and its generalization - Chao Li - (slides, movie)

13h20 - LUNCH

Afternoon session

14h30 - Open discussion III: Discussions of specific topics in satellite groups (Satellite A:FR, Satellite B:SRAEI)
FR= Fraunhofer
SRAEI = Seminar room AEI (ground floor)

22 September - Friday * Mixed presentations and group reports *

Morning session

Chairman: Leor Barack, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

More specific talks

10h00 - Mapping spacetimes with LISA - Kostas Glampedakis - (slides, movie)

10h30 - Possible ways to make the S stars in the centre of our Galaxy - Melvyn Davies - (slides, movie)

11h00 - Using EMRIs to probe bumpy black-hole spacetimes - Ilya Mandel - (slides, movie)

11h30 - 11h50 Break

11h50 - EMRIs in non-Kerr spacetimes - Enrico Barausse - (slides, movie)

12h20 - PN two-body dynamics for BHs in galactic nuclei - Miguel Preto - (slides, movie)

12h50 - A mode-sum approach to the self-force in curved spacetime - Dong-Hoon Kim - (slides, movie)

13h20 - LUNCH

Afternoon session

Chairman: Pete Bender, Place: Seminar room (nr. 1.404) Fraunhofer IAP

14h30 Group satellite reports (with break, to be announced)

Conclusions from the even satellite - (slides )
Conclusions from the odd satellite - (slides)
The movie englobes both satellite reports - (movie)

NB: Why were they called even/odd? Have a look at the pictures and find out by yourself ;)

After reports:

Concluding remarks: What have we learnt? Future? Prospects? - Pau Amaro-Seoane - (movie)

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