Gravitational Wave Physics
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GWnext 2024
March 4th (Monday) to 8th (Friday), 2024
@Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (PKU)
Beijing (China)
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Overview
GWnext is a series of meetings on gravitational wave physics from young researchers for young researchers. The first meeting was held online in January 2022. This is the second edition of the meeting held in Beijing in March 2024.
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The goal of the meeting is to bring (mainly but not only young) researchers together to work out the most important questions in gravitational wave physics that need to be tackled in the coming years. The meeting will last five days with three (core) days dedicated to introductory talks and guided discussions. Every day will be dedicated to one of the main fields in gravitational wave physics: gravitational wave theory, astrophysics, and detection.
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For organizational reasons, we only can accept a restricted number of participants on a first-come first-served basis. When registering, you will be asked to submit two questions for the discussion sessions. REGISTER HERE!
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There will be a poster session where students and postdocs can present their work on the third day of the meeting (Wednesday). Participants will be asked to vote for their favorite posters and the best three posters will get prices on the last day of the meeting (Friday).
Based on the discussions held during the meeting, we will write a conference white paper summarizing the results. All participants are welcome to contribute and sign the white paper.
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We will have an "unofficial dinner" on Monday. We will go to a restaurant/bar near PKU so that people can interact and socialize before the regular meeting starts -- everyone is welcome and no registration is required but you will need to pay for your expenses. Moreover, there will be a conference dinner after the poster session on Wednesday -- please register for the dinner when registering for the meeting.
Questions & Discussions
Thanks to all participants for handing in numerous interesting questions related to gravitational wave physics! You can find the questions here.
Invited speakers
Astrophysics:
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Jin-Hong Chen (The University of Hong Kong)
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Andrea Derdzinski (Fisk University and Vanderbilt University)
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Matthias Kruckow (University of Geneva)
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Detection:
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Stefano Rinaldi (University Heidelberg and University of Padova)
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Ziming Wang (Peking University)
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Xue-Ting Zhang (TianQin Center, SYSU)
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Gravitational wave theory:
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Torben Frost (Peking University)
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Lorenzo Speri (Albert Einstein Institute)
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Garvin Yim (Peking University)
Programme
Monday (March 4): Registration and "unofficial dinner"
Tuesday (March 5): Invited talks and discussion
Wednesday (March 6): Invited talks, discussion, poster session, and conference dinner
Thursday (March 7): Invited talks and discussion
Friday (March 8): Meeting summary and price ceremony
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For more details on the program click here!
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Tentative schedule for the talks:
Astrophysics
Tuesday (Match 5th)
Andrea Derdzinski
9:30 - 10:20
Matthias Kruckow
10:50 - 11:40
Jin-Hong Chen
13:30 - 14:20
Discussion session
start 14:30
Led by Alejandro Torres-Orjuela
GW theory
Wednesday (March 6th)
Garvin Yim
9:30 - 10:20
Torben Frost
10:50 - 11:40
Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves: Geometric Optics and Weak Field Wave Optics
Lorenzo Speri
13:30 - 14:20
Discussion session
start 14:30
Led by Verónica Vázquez-Aceves
Detection
Thursday (March 7th)
Ziming Wang
9:30 - 10:20
Stefano Rinaldi
10:50 - 11:40
Xue-Ting Zhang
13:30 - 14:20
Discussion session
start 14:30
Led by Rui Xu
To see the slides, click on the titles!
Participants
Jian-dong Zhang (Sun Yat-Sen University)
Zheng Wu (Sun Yat-Sen University)
Zhoujian Cao (Beijing Normal University)
Xian Chen (Peking University)
Zhongfu Zhang (Peking University)
Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)
Yi-Ming Hu (Sun Yat-Sen University)
Sophia L. Morton (Oregon State University)
Andrea Derdzinski (Fisk University and Vanderbilt University)
Matthias Kruckow (University of Geneva)
Winners of the Poster Prize
1st: Qian Hu - "Rapid Premerger Localization of Binary Neutron Stars in Third-generation Gravitational-wave Detectors" (University of Glasgow)
2nd: Cong Zhou - "Probing Orbits of Stellar Mass Objects Deep in Galactic Nuclei with Quasi-periodic Eruptions" (University of Science and Technology of China)
3rd: Zheng Wu - "Searching Gravitational-wave Bursts with Space-borne Detectors" (Sun Yat-Sen University)
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Advisory Committee
Xian Chen (Peking University)
Scientific Organizing Committee
Alejandro Torres-Orjuela (The University of Hong Kong)
Rui Xu (Tsinghua University)
Verónica Vázquez-Aceves (Peking University)