A one-day symposium on gravitational wave science will be held on June 3, 2024 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. World leaders in the field, including theorists, experimentalists and observers, will present the current status and outlook of this new window on the Universe. The detection of gravitational waves from mergers of compact objects, black holes and neutron stars, has already produced revolutionary scientific breakthroughs leading to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
We particularly welcome early career scientists in physics and astronomy in all Swedish universities to attend this unique event, with the aim of fostering
a fruitful development of gravitational wave science in Sweden.
Programme
09.30
Welcome remarks
Lars Bergström, Member of the Class for physics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
09.35
Introduction
Ariel Goobar, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
09.45
Gravitational-wave Astronomy: Progress and Prospects
Patrick Brady, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Spokesperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
10:25
Coffee break
10.55
Addressing the Challenge of Precision Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Alessandra Bounanno, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics,
Germany
11.35
Gravitational waves from merging neutron stars: what can we learn about
the source?
Stephan Rosswog, Universität Hamburg, Germany and Stockholm
University, Sweden
12.15
Lunch (included for all participants)
13.30
New Perspectives onto the Universe in the era of Gravitational Wave
Astrophysics
Samaya Nissanke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
14.10
The NANOGrav Experiment: Current Results & Future Directions
Chiara Mingarelli, Yale University, USA
14:50
Coffee break
15.20
Next-generation gravitational-wave observatories
Sheila Rowan, University of Glasgow, UK, on Zoom
16.00
Astrophysical structure and correlations in the population of Black Holes
observed using Gravitational Waves
Carl-Johan Haster, University of Nevada, USA
16.20
Mergers of neutron star binaries: leveraging all our observations in the
multi-messenger era
Nikhil Sarin, Stockholm University, Sweden
16.40
Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae
Evan O´Connor, Stockholm University, Sweden
17.00
Closing remarks
Bengt Gustafsson, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
17.15
Reception
18.15
After reception speech
Kip Thorne, California Institute of Technology, USA and Nobel Laureate in Physics 2017, on Zoom
18.30
End of symposium
Organising committee
- Lars Bergström, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Claes Fransson, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Ariel Goobar, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Bengt Gustafsson, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Hiranya Pereis, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Registering to this seminar means that you send an expression to participate in the symposium. The organiser will notify everyone who has been accepted to participate well in advance of the event.
The Academy will be able to give travel support, by train, for some participants who live outside Stockholm. Please let us know if you need this when you fill out the form.
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