Swiss LISA theory group meeting

Tuesday 16 Sept 2025, 11:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Univesity of Zurich

First meeting of the three Swiss Member Groups of the renewed LISA Consortium, organised by the Swiss LISA theory group.  

Participants: Uddipta Bhardwaj, Pedro Capelo, Chiara Caprini, Michael Ebersold, Noemi Fabri, Luigi Ferraioli, Cecilio Garcia Quiros, Mudit Garg, Giovanni Giarda, Niklas Houba, Philippe Jetzer, Danny Laghi, Kienan Mark Latzke Cuadra, Lucio Mayer, Patrick Meyers, Antonino Salvino Midiri, Felipe Andrade Oliveira, Simona Procacci, Davide Racco, Maria Radisch, Arianna Renzini, Johan Robertsson, Alberto Roper Pol, Philipp Schicho, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Stefan Strub, Shubhanshu Tiwari, Michele Vallisneri, Jorinde van de Vis, Stefan Wismer 

11:00 → 11:30 Presentation of the new LISA Consortium

Speaker: Chiara Caprini (CERN)

Swiss_LISA_theory_group.pdf

11:30 → 11:40 Astrophysics group at the University of Zurich

Speaker: Lucio Mayer

11:40 → 11:50 Multimesseger and cosmology group at the University of Zurich

Speaker: Marcelle Soares-Santos

LISA-CH meeting presentation.pdf

11:50 → 12:00 Cosmology of the primodial universe group at the University of Geneva

Speaker: Chiara Caprini (CERN)

Geneva_group.pdf

12:00 → 12:10 Astrophysics group at the University of Geneva (observatory)

(presented by Chiara Caprini)

Speaker: Mélanie Habouzit

2025_SwissLISATheory.pdf

12:10 → 12:20 Zurich Center for High Performance Instruments and Technology

Speaker: Luigi Ferraioli

12:20 → 12:30 Swiss LISA Data Center

Speaker: Michele Vallisneri

12:30 → 12:40 Swiss contribution to the DDPC CU Waveforms

Speaker: Garcia Quiros Cecilio

UZH_ddpc_cecilio.pdf

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch

13:40 → 13:55 Characterising the sub-parsec scale environment of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries

Speaker: Mudit Garg

13:55 → 14:10 Summary of the event "Advancing GW predictions from cosmological first-order phase transition"

Speaker: Simona Procacci

14:10 → 14:20 Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from fluid perturbations in First-Order Phase Transitions

Speaker: Antonino Midiri

Midiri Zurich.pdf

14:20 → 14:30 Connecting micro- and intermediate scales in perturbative cosmological phase transitions

Speaker: Philipp Schicho

lisa_uzh.pdf

14:30 → 14:40 To be completed

Speaker: Davide Racco

14:40 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:30 Discussion

minutes_16_9_25.pdf