Conveners
Plenary Session: Lecture 1 - Massimo Tinto, "Space-based gravitational wave observations in the mid-band frequency region”"
- Marius P. Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
Plenary Session: Lecture 4 - Masaru Shibata, “Merger and mass ejection for neutron star binaries”
- Marius P. Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
Plenary Session: Lecture 5 - Jorge Pullin, “Loop quantum gravity: developments and recent results”
- Marek Biesiada (University of Silesia)
Plenary Session: Lecture 9 - S. Capozziello, “Cosmography as a tool to discriminate between modified gravity and dark energy”
- Vincenzo Salzano (University of Szczecin)
Plenary Session: Lecture 11 - Raymond Vivien, "Gravitational Waves Observations by LIGO and Virgo"
- Edward Malec
Plenary Session: Lecture 12 - Yongge Ma, “Loop quantum scalar-tensor gravity and its cosmological implication”
- Edward Malec
Plenary Session: Lecture 10 - Hermann Nicolai, “K(E10) and Standard Model Physics”
- Vincenzo Salzano (University of Szczecin)
Plenary Session: Lecture 6 - Joseph Conlon, “String Compactifications and the Swampland”
- Marek Biesiada (University of Silesia)
Plenary Session: Lecture 7 - Jan de Boer, “Gravity and quantum information”
- Marek Biesiada (University of Silesia)
Plenary Session: Lecture 8 - Tsvi Piran “Lessons from GW170817, what did we see, what caused it and what can we expect in the coming future”
- Marek Biesiada (University of Silesia)
Plenary Session: Lecture 2 - Jacques Delabrouille, “Constraining gravitation with CMB observations”
- Marius P. Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
Plenary Session: Lecture 3 - Jose Antonio Font, “Universal relations for gravitational-wave asteroseismology of proto-neutron stars”
- Marius P. Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
The opportunity exists to scientifically explore the intermediate Gravitation Wave (GW) frequency detection band, a region that is in between those accessible by LISA and LIGO. A GW mission operating in this part of the GW band will complement and enhance the scientific capabilities of both LIGO and LISA. Such a mission entails three drag-free satellites in a geosynchronous trajectory...
On August 17th, 2017, merger of binary neutron stars was observed
for the first time by gravitational-wave and electromagnetic telescopes.
Optical and infrared observations in particular agree broadly with
the prediction by numerical relativity. From this April, advanced
LIGO and VIRGO will start observation again and we expect
a few more observations of neutron-star mergers (including...
We present a largely non-technical review of loop quantum gravity, describing its basic principles and recent results in applications to cosmology and black holes.
Cosmography can be considered as a sort of a
model-independent approach to tackle the dark energy/modified gravity
problem. In this talk, the success and the shortcomings of the
$\Lambda$CDM model, based on General Relativity and standard model of
particles, are discussed in view of the most recent observational
constraints. The motivations for considering extensions and modifications
of...
On September 14th, 2015 the LIGO-Virgo collaboration made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, nearly one hundred years after Einstein first predicted them. Since, several gravitational waves have been detected, and we have been able to study new black holes and analyse the collision of two neutron stars. Now the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories are on their third...