BEL Center - Joint pheno+GW meetings - 2025-26 season

Europe/Zurich
Tournay-Solvay Castle

Tournay-Solvay Castle

Tournay-Solvay Park Chaussée de la Hulpe 199 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort
Alberto MARIOTTI (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Benoît Tuybens (Nikhef), Daniel Mayerson (KU Leuven), Gauthier Durieux (CP3 - UCLouvain), Michel Tytgat
Description

Venue location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/32Nt1sWMMsh8w5Hf9 (the parc is only open from 10am to 4.30pm between Dec and Feb).

There will be shared office space and meeting rooms to discuss and work outside presentation times.

Registration
Participants
Participants
  • Alberto Mariotti
  • Aliaksei Kachanovich
  • Aäron Rase
  • Baptiste Blachier
  • Dylan Deraed
  • Fabien Lacasa
  • Gauthier Durieux
  • Gaétan Facchinetti
  • Giacomo Ferrante
  • Hannah Duval
  • jm frere
  • Julien Touchèque
  • Laura Lopez Honorez
  • Laura Lopez Honorez
  • Leonardo Satrioni
  • luca Beccatini
  • Luigi Favaro
  • Marco Drewes
  • Maxime Grandjean
  • Michel Tytgat
  • Mubarak Mohammed
  • Murad Ali
  • Nicolas Esser
  • Nicolas Grimbaum Yamamoto
  • Petr Tinyakov
  • Priyanka Lamba
  • Sebastien Clesse
  • Simon Biot
  • Simone Tentori
  • Sonali Verma
  • Theo Heimel
  • Virgile Teillet
  • Virgile Teillet
  • Waël Aoun
  • Waël Aoun
  • Xander Nagels
  • Yang Ma
  • Yuanzhen Li
  • Zeqiang Wang
  • +9
    • 10:00 16:00
      Joint meeting
      • 11:00
        Synergic cosmology across the spectrum 1h
        Speaker: Prof. Stefano Camera (Torino U.)
      • 14:00
        Quantum Scattering Amplitudes for Gravitational Waves 1h
        Speaker: Rafael Aoude
    • 10:00 13:30
      Joint meeting: Pheno morning (Note the special venue!) Forum E, Campus Plaine (ULB)

      Forum E, Campus Plaine

      ULB

      https://maps.app.goo.gl/xT6s3qWVwuAUvcMY9
      • 10:30
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:00
        Effective Field Theory for Thermal Phase transitions 1h

        I will present recent progress in applying effective field theory (EFT) to the precise computation of thermal phase transition parameters and the associated gravitational wave spectra. I will also briefly comment on byproducts of this work, including new methods for two-loop renormalization in EFT that avoid gauge-breaking counterterms and infrared rearrangement.

        Speaker: Mikael Chala (Universidad de Granada)
      • 12:00
        Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 17:00
      Joint meeting: Gravitational wave afternoon (Note the special venue!) Meridien room (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

      Meridien room

      Royal Observatory of Belgium

      https://maps.app.goo.gl/5BApHbibg6fQzckR9
      • 13:30
        Introduction to LISA, its data analysis challenges, and modelling of extreme mass ratio inspirals 1h
        Speakers: Bert Depoorter (KU Leuven), Robrecht Keijzer (KU Leuven)
      • 14:45
        The LISA mission and its distributed data processing center 1h
        Speaker: Antoine Petiteau (APC)
      • 16:00
        Listening to the millihertz universe: LISA data analysis and the challenge of extreme mass ratio inspirals 1h

        The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a new window onto the gravitational wave Universe by observing millihertz signals from massive black hole mergers, compact galactic binaries, and extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Extracting these signals from a data stream shaped by instrumental noise and astrophysical confusion requires advanced data analysis strategies. In this talk, I will outline the main challenges of LISA data analysis. I will then focus on EMRIs: long lived, highly structured signals produced when stellar mass compact objects spiral into massive black holes. These sources encode precise information about spacetime geometry and black hole astrophysics, yet their detection and characterization demand accurate waveform models and scalable search algorithms. I will discuss recent progress in EMRI modeling and how emerging data analysis pipelines aim to unlock their unique scientific potential.

        Speaker: Lorenzo Speri (ESA)
    • 10:00 17:00
      Joint meeting
      • 10:00
        Cold baryogenesis 1h
        Speaker: Dr Simone Blasi (DESY)
      • 11:30
        Quantum information in high-energy physics 1h
        Speaker: Priyanka Lamba
      • 12:45
        Lunch 1h
      • 14:00
        Jan Heisig 1h
        Speaker: Jan Heisig
      • 15:30
        Alex Jenkins 1h
        Speaker: Alex Jenkins
    • 10:00 16:00
      Joint meeting
      • 10:00
        Julien Lesgourgues 1h
        Speaker: Julien Lesgourgues (RWTH Aachen university)
      • 11:30
        TBC 1h
      • 12:45
        Lunch 1h
    • 10:00 16:00
      Joint meeting
    • 09:00 16:00
      Joint meeting
      • 10:00
        Diego Blas 1h
        Speaker: Diego Blas (ICREA/IFAE)
      • 11:30
        Machine learning for high-energy physics 1h
        Speaker: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University)
      • 12:45
        Lunch 1h