Gravitational Physics Seminar Series 2013/2014

Speaker Affiliation Date Title
Harald Pfeiffer CITA Toronto 02nd July 2014 Analytical and numerical modeling of precessing binary black holes
Helvi Witek DAMTP Cambridge 25th April 2014 Black holes as observatories for beyond-standard model physics
Enrico Barausse IA Paris 11th April 2014 Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity
Alberto Sesana AEI Potsdam 28th March 2014 Massive black holes: dynamics, spin evolution and gravitational waves
Laura Nuttall Milwaukee 13th March 2014 Preparing for Advanced LIGO: Characterising Gravitational Wave Interferometers (DCC)
Geraint Pratten Cardiff 21th February 2014 Covariant Perturbations of LTB Spacetimes
Tanja Bode Tübingen 14th February 2014 General Relativistic (M)HD for Neutron Star GW Sources (only accessible for Cardiff members)
Andrew Lundgren AEI Hanover 07th February 2014 Understanding Precession Effects in Inspiral Waveforms
Alex Nielsen AEI Hanover 24th January 2014 Implementation of a search for aligned spinning black hole and neutron star systems (DCC)
Antoine Petiteau APC Paris 10th January 2014 Observing Massive Black hole binaries with Gravitational Waves
Francesco Pannarale Cardiff 13th December 2013 From Neutron Star Structure to Compact Binary Mergers and Back
Timothy Clifton Queen Mary London 06th December 2013 An exact treatment of back-reaction in relativistic cosmology
Antonia Rowlinson Amsterdam 29th November 2013 Newborn magnetars from the merger of neutron star binaries
Benjamin Farr Northwestern 22th November 2013 Parameter Estimation in the Advanced-Detector Era
Priscilla Canizares IoA Cambridge 15th November 2013 Gravitational-Wave Parameter estimation with Reduced Order Quadratures
Adam Day IOP Publishing 08th November 2013 Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Mark Hannam Cardiff 25th October 2013 Generic black-hole-binary waveform models
Tom Adams Cardiff 11th October 2013 Gravitational-wave detection using multivariate analysis