The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics is one of the four partners in the international consortium GWSky, which the European Research Council has awarded 12 million euros to develop a deeper understanding of gravitational waves.
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Scientists have studied what happens when two stellar-mass black holes merge near a more massive black hole. They have calculated how strong space-time curvature modifies the gravitational waveforms and how this might be detected in future observations.
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After being already awarded a prize from the Amaldi Research Center at La Sapienza University in Rome, Elisa Maggio, postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam receives two more awards for her outstanding thesis on tests of general relativity.
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Jan Steinhoff talks about gravitational waves, which are recorded in sophisticated experiments on Earth and provide ever new insights into our universe.
Location: Bildungsforum Potsdam Date: June 10, 2023 Time: 11:30am
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In his talk, Tim Dietrich will give an overview of how theoretical models can be developed and used to enable multi-messenger studies of merging neutron stars.
Location: GO:IN1 Date: June 20, 2023 Time: 12pm
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Today the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration begins a new observing run with upgraded instruments, new and even more accurate signal models, and more advanced data analysis methods.
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Five papers about state-of-the-art, computationally efficient inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveforms developed by AEI-Potsdam researchers
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The key focus of this workshop is to pave the way toward complete and accurate inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform templates in modified gravity theories.
Location: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam Date: June 14 - 16, 2023
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Astrophysicist Prof. Dr. Tim Dietrich receives IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in General Relativity and Gravitation and a scholarship from the Daimler and Benz Foundation
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