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Relativity
Black holes as a tool to study the dynamics of spacetime, Maxence Corman, Perimeter Institute
Aula 5b, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, UIB , SpainBlack holes, through theoretical predictions or more recently observations of gravitational waves, have allowed us to gain an understanding of the strongly curved spacetime originally predicted [...]
Seminar: High-order numerical methods for solving the M1 neutrino formalism
Author: Manuel Rodríguez Izquierdo Supervisors: Dr Carlos Palenzuela y Dr. Joan Masso Date: 19 July 2022, 12h. Place: Sala de Seminaris 3r pis Dpt. Física. Mateu [...]
Seminar: Spherical Einstein Field Equations on Hyperboloidal Slices: A Generalized Harmonic Gauge Formalism
Title: Spherical Einstein Field Equations on Hyperboloidal Slices: A Generalized Harmonic Gauge Formalism Author: Shalabh Gautam Hour: 12.00 Place: Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, aula [...]
Gravity Seminar: Gravitational waveforms in general relativity and scalar-tensor theories, Laura Bernard, Observatoire de Paris
ZoomSince the first gravitational wave (GW) detection by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, more than fifty GW signals from compact binary systems (made of black hole or [...]
Gravity Seminar: Electromagnetic Transients in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei, Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook University
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AThe disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) have emerged as interesting environments for the evolution of stars and the compact objects they leave behind. The very high [...]
Alicia Sintes dona la conferència en el sopar-col·loqui per a socis del Cercle d’Economia de Mallorca
Aquest dijous 12 de gener a les 19.30h en la Fundació Sa Nostra tindrà lloc el sopar col·loqui per a socis del Cercle d’Economia de [...]
Gravity Seminar: A new GPU-accelerated global fitting algorithm for LISA data analysis, Michael Katz, Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam
ZoomThe global fit of LISA data is one of the most challenging analysis tasks in the field of gravitational waves. In this talk, I will [...]
Gravity Seminar: Extracting astrophysics from spin precession in binary black holes, Anuradha Gupta, University of Mississippi
ZoomOne of the important parameters that can provide clues about the formation of binary black hole mergers detected by ground-based gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO [...]
Gravity Seminar: Numerical construction of non-linear initial data sets for cosmological models, Alejandro Estrada Llesta, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AWe explore the Algebraic-Hyperbolic Formulation (AHF) or 2+1 decomposition of the constraint equations in cosmological scenarios. We propose a pseudo-spectral method based on the Fourier [...]
Gravity Seminar: All-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves from unknown neutron stars in binary systems, Pep Blai Covas Vidal, AEI, Hannover
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BUnknown neutron stars in binary systems might be one of the best sources of continuous gravitational waves (yet to be detected), due to their millisecond [...]
Gravity Seminar: ExaHyPE: An Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine, Anne Reinarz, Durham University
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AExaHyPE is a hyperbolic PDE engine capable of solving systems of first order hyperbolic PDEs. The project provides a space-tree discretization of the computational domain, [...]
Gravity Seminar: Scalar wave emission in theories with kinetic screening, Dina Traykova, AEI Potsdam
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BI will discuss a recent work studying the gravitational wave emission and in particular the scalar wave monopole and quadrupole modes in a scalar-tensor theory [...]
Alicia Sintes donarà diverses xerrades a l’aulmnat del CEIP Nova Cabana (Pont d’Inca)
El proper 18 d'abril de 2023 Alicia Sintes impartirà diverses xerrades sobre ones gravitacionals a l'alumnat del CEIP Nova Cabana del pont d'inca. Concretament donarà [...]
Gravity Seminar: Gravitational Wave Merger catalog (4OGC) with open data, applications and future challenges, Sumit Kumar, AEI Hanover
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BOver the past few years, with the help of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detector network, the catalog of Gravitational Waves (GW) merger events have grown to about 90 [...]
Gravity Seminar: Tidal deformability of neutron stars in scalar tensor theories of gravity, Stephanie Brown, AEI Hannover
ZoomGravitational waves from compact binary coalescence are valuable for testing theories of gravity in the strong field regime. By measuring neutron star tidal deformability in [...]
Gravity Seminar: Numerical relativity surrogates and recent applications for gravitational wave astronomy, Vijay Varma, AEI Potsdam
Aula 5b, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, UIB , SpainData-driven methods like surrogate modeling can capture the full physics of binary black hole simulations, including complex effects like spin precession and recoil kicks. As [...]
Gravity Seminar: Critical phenomena of a complex scalar field using bamps, Krinio Marouda, Instituto Superior Técnico (CENTRA)
Aula 5b, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, UIB , SpainIt has been thirty years since the first breakthrough paper of M. Choptuik on critical phenomena in the gravitational collapse of a real scalar field [...]
Seminar:Are multipolar magnetic fields necessary to model the X-ray emission observed with NICER?
The following 20 of June 2023 at 15h Federrico Carrasco from the Universidad de Cordoba will give a seminar entittle "Are multipolar magnetic field necessary [...]
Seminar: Modelling Force-Free Neutron Star Magnetospheres using Physics-Informed Neural Networks
The following 22 of June 2023 at 12h Jose Pons professor in the Universidad de Alicante will give a seminar entittle "Modelling Force-Free Neutron Star [...]
PhD Seminar: Construction of an analytical model for the (l=2, m=0) spherical harmonic containing the memory effect
Title: Construction of an analytical model for the (l=2, m=0) spherical harmonic containing the memory effect Author: Maria Rosselló Sastre Date: 03/07/2023 Abstract: An interesting [...]
Gravity Seminar: A radio eye on galaxy clusters, Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC, Spain
Aula 5b, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, UIB , SpainAbstract: The central black hole of active galaxies accretes large amounts of matter and powers jets of relativistic particles that can propagate beyond the host [...]
PhD Seminar: A generic algorithm for hybrid waveforms from compact systems.
Author: Joan Llobera-Querol Title: A generic algorithm for hybrid waveforms from compact systems. Date: 19/07/2023 Abstract: The pipelines utilized in the detection and parameter estimation of [...]
Gravity Seminar: Machine learning for gravitational wave parameter estimation: towards waveform systematics, Sama Al-Shammari, Cardiff University, U.K.
ZoomWhen performing parameter estimation for gravitational-wave (GW) data, Bayesian techniques provide a powerful framework to describe said parameters. These techniques are consistent with both our prior [...]
Gravity Seminar: Free hyperboloidal evolutions: current numerical efforts, Alex Vañó Viñuales, Instituto Superior Técnico (CENTRA), Lisbon, Portugal
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AGravitational wave radiation is only unambiguously defined at future null infinity - the location in spacetime where light rays arrive and where global properties of [...]
Defensa de tesi doctoral: Searching for long-duration transient gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars.
Doctoranda: Luana Michela Modafferi Títol: Searching for long-duration transient gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars. Directors: Dr. David Benjamin Keitel i Dra. Alicia Magdalena Sintes Olives Programa [...]
Gravity Seminar: Neutrino transport in neutron star mergers simulations, Manuel Rodríguez Izquierdo, UIB
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AAccurate modeling of neutrino transport plays a crucial role in understanding astrophysical phenomena such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. This talk will review [...]
Gravity Seminar: Continuous gravitational waves: looking for a tiny signal in a sea of noise, Lorenzo Mirasola, University of Cagliari, Italy
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AAlthough the gravitational wave signal emitted by the merging of compact objects, such as black holes or neutron stars, has almost become “normal”, we are [...]
Gravity Seminar: Moving towards the analysis of gravitational-wave data in the next-generation detector era, Justin Janquart, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2ASince 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has been detecting and analyzing gravitational-wave signals, with about 90 observations of compact binary coalescence signals after the third-observing runs. [...]
Gravity Seminar: Exploring the Impact of Wave Effects in the Lensing of Gravitational Waves from Chirping Binaries, Anuj Mishra, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune, India
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BWith increasing sensitivities of the current ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, the prospects of detecting a gravitationally lensed GW signal are going to improve in [...]
Gravity Seminar: An overview of gravitational waveforms beyond general relativity, Laura Bernard, Observatoire de Paris, France
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BThe analytical modelling of gravitational waves in general relativity has been one of the key element to allow the numerous detections by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. [...]
Gravity Seminar: Investigating mysteries in modern physics with gravitational waves, Helvi Witek, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AThe detection of 90+ gravitational wave signals produced by coalescing black holes or neutron stars have opened up a rich discovery space for astrophysics, gravitation, [...]
Gravity Seminar: Dynamics in UV extensions of k-essence and scalar Gauss-Bonnet theory, Guillermo Lara, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AIn recent years there has been an increased interest in modelling the nonlinear dynamics in theories beyond general relativity. Recent work by different groups has [...]
Gravity Seminar: Two types of nuclear transients – tidal disruption events and disruptive collisions, Taeho Ryu, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AGalactic nuclei are extreme environments where stars are densely packed around a supermassive black hole (SMBH). Occasionally, dynamical interactions in the galactic center lead the [...]
Gravity Seminar: Black hole perturbations and phase-amplitude methods, Hector Okada da Silva, AEI Potsdam, Germany
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BThe inference of quasinormal modes frequencies from the ringdown part of gravitational-wave signals produced by the coalescence of black hole binaries can be used to [...]
Pas endavant per fer realitat el primer observatori espacial d’ones gravitacionals, amb participació de la UIB
Els investigadors de la Universitat de les Illes Balears que participen en la missió espacial europea LISA atendran els mitjans de comunicació per explicar els [...]
Invited Lecture: “Escuchando al Universo, últimos avances con las ondas gravitacionales”
Agrupación Astronómica de SabadellAlicia Sintes impartirá el 31 de enero de 2024 a las 19:00 en la Agrupación Astronómica de Sabadell una conferencia titulada: Escuchando al Universo, últimos [...]
Gravity Seminar: Gravitational waves and multi-messenger astronomy, Neha Singh, UIB
Aula 5b, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, UIB , SpainThe growing number of gravitational wave detections in recent years has established Gravitational waves astronomy as a strong contributor to multi messenger astronomy. In this [...]
PhD seminar: Ángel Garrón, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Improved analysis of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainThe sensitivity of gravitational waves detectors keeps improving and we should expect to find gravitationally lensed gravitational waves soon. Since the number of detections is [...]
PhD seminar: Joan René Mérou Mestre, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — All-sky searching for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems in the O4a run data
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainRapidly spinning, non-axisymmetric neutron stars (NSs) are expected to emit continuous gravitational waves (CWs). Detecting such signals would significantly improve our understanding of the galactic [...]
PhD Seminar: Maria de Lluc Planas Llompart, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Towards building a phenomenological aligned spin eccentric model: PhenomTEHM
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainThe increase in sensitivity and detector upgrades planned in the coming years will challenge existing waveform models and demand considerable improvements in accuracy, parameter space [...]
PhD Seminar: Maria Rosselló Sastre, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Modeling the full (l=2, m=0) spherical harmonic: memory effect and ringdown oscillations
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainThe current phenomenological waveform models for binary black hole mergers do not include the (l=2, m=0) spherical harmonic, which is the only mode with l=2 [...]
PhD Seminar: Joan Llobera Querol, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Aligning and Constructing Hybrid Waveforms for Precessing Binaries
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainPrecessing binaries exhibit complex dynamics that significantly modulate the emitted gravitational waveform. Describing such systems is challenging due to the lack of a canonical choice [...]
Gravity Seminar: Rita Santos, Support Scientist UIB – Characteristic Critical Collapse with Null Infinity
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainSolutions to the Einstein Equations that are close to the threshold of black hole formation exhibit features that resemble critical phenomena in statistical mechanics. We [...]
PhD Seminar: Jorge Valencia Gómez, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Mind the step: On the frequency-domain analysis of gravitational-wave memory waveforms
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainGravitational wave memory is characterized by a signal component that persists after a transient signal has decayed. Treating such signals in the frequency domain is [...]
PhD Seminar: Jesús Yébana Carrilero, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Bridging the gap between extreme and comparable mass ratios in black-hole binaries
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainState-of-the-art gravitational waveform models need input from many frameworks tackling the relativistic two-body problem. Among them are the gravitational self-force approach, which was designed to [...]
PhD Seminar: Llorenç Melis, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Surface waves and KHi in a prominence-corona interface: effect of the ambipolar diffusion
There are a wide variety of phenomena in solar prominences, such as waves, instabilities or mass flows. Observations have shown the ubiquitous presence of MHD [...]
New Frontiers 2025: past, current and future challenges in Numerical Relativity
Universitat de les Illes Balears Carretera Valldemossa km 7.5, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, SpainIn the history of numerical (or computational) general relativity, the “Frontiers” meeting in 1988 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA), played a pivotal role [...]