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

LISA Astro-GR@BCN
* Programme *

7 September - Monday - Place : Residència d'Investigadors

Morning session

Chairman: Alberto Lobo

09h00 What is all this about? A Howto to the meeting - Carlos F. Sopuerta, Bernard F. Schutz and Pau Amaro-Seoane

09h30 Astrophysics of EMRIs and their event rate for dummies - Pau Amaro-Seoane

10h15 Detecting Gravitational Wave signals with LISA - Eduardo Portero (aka Ed Porter) (slides, movie)

11h00 - 11h30 Coffee break

11h30 Finite-mass correction to the ISCO of a Schwarzschild black hole - Leor Barack (slides)

12h15 Detecting EMRI signals with LISA - Neil Cornish (slides, movie)

13h00 - LUNCH

Afternoon session

Chairman: Matt Benacquista

15h00 Introduction to parameter estimation for GW sources - Michele Vallisneri (slides, movie)

15h45 Status of the technology for LISA - Oliver Jennrich (slides, movie)

16h30 A method to discern a Kerr metric from other kind of metrics through GWs from EMRIs - Theocharis Apostolatos (slides, movie)

17h15 - Formation of satellite groups A and B

8 September - Tuesday - Place : Residència d'Investigadors

Morning session

Chairman: Bernard Schutz

09h15 Stars, stellar and intermediate mass black holes near Sagittarius A* - Rainer Schödel (slides, movie)

10h00 Fundamental physics and cosmology with supermassive black holes - S. B. Sathyaprakash (slides, movie)

10h45 - 11h15 Coffee break

11h15 Post-Newtonian modeling of EMRIs and IMRIs - Nico Yunes (slides, movie)

11h45 Delayed rejection schemes for efficient Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo sampling of multimodal distributions- Miquel Trias (slides, movie)

12h15 IMBHs and clusters: Sources of GWs- Pau Amaro-Seoane

13h00 - LUNCH

Afternoon session

Satellite groups: Split and address your list of questions

9 September - Wednesday - Place : Residència d'Investigadors

Morning session

Chairman: Ed Porter

09h15 Search for SMBH binaries: Understanding observational evidence - Tamara Bogdanović (slides, movie)

10h00 Galactic compact object binary contributions to the foreground signal - Matt Benacquista (slides, movie)

10h45 - 11h15 Coffee break

11h15 Measuring SMBH mergers with LISA: the importance of the waveform accuracy- Antoine Klein (slides, movie)

11h45 Multiwavelength periodicity study of Markarian 501 - Constanze Rödig (slides, movie)

12h15 Numerical simulations of BH binaries as sources of GWs- Ulrich Sperhake (slides, movie)

13h00 - LUNCH

Afternoon session

Satellite groups: Split and address your list of questions

10 September - Thursday - Place : Edifici Nexus (google map link)

Morning session

Chairman: Neil Cornish

09h15 Binary black holes in gaseous nuclear discs: linking spin and accretion to dynamics - Monica Colpi (slides, movie)

10h00 Testing a class of alternative theories of gravity with LISA- Carlos Sopuerta (slides, movie)

10h45 - 11h15 Coffee break

11h15 Detecting spinning BH binaries with LISA - Antoine Petiteau (slides, movie)

11h45 Spin of inspiraling compact binaries - Guillaume Faye (slides, movie)

12h15 Testing Fundamental Physics using LISA EMRI observations - Jon Gair (slides, movie)

13h00 - LUNCH

Afternoon session

Satellite groups: Split and address your list of questions

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