Ghent GW day

Thursday 18 Nov 2021, 10:00 → 17:30 Europe/Brussels

S3 ( 3.1 Benoit Emile Claperon )

Archisman Ghosh (Ghent University)

Gravitational wave day, an informal meeting aimed at getting a conversation started about synergies between the GW research at Ghent University and some of the other research lines in the department and in the department of solid state sciences.

The meeting is designed primarily for in-person participation, however a Zoom link will remain available for remote participation: https://ugent-be.zoom.us/j/93182736409?pwd=TGliZDRLVEl5bkErWmZDNnBYcWpTdz09

We request in-person participants to carry their covid safe passes (these are required for coffee / lunch as per university regulations), and to kindly keep their face-masks in common circulation areas, and when they are sitting in the audience.

10:00 → 11:20 Morning session: multimessenger astronomy

Convener: Prof. Archisman Ghosh (Ghent University)

10:00 Welcome

10:10 Recent LVK results and GW cosmology

Speaker: Dálya Gergely

10:30 Galaxy properties and spectroscopy

Speaker: Arjen van der Wel

10:40 Dwarf galaxies | Euclid

Speaker: Sven De Rijcke

10:50 Cosmological simulations

Speaker: Maarten Baes

11:00 Wrap-up discussion: astronomy

11:20 → 11:40 Coffee

11:40 → 12:50 Morning session: GWs and fundamental physics

Convener: Archisman Ghosh (Ghent University)

11:40 Fundamental physics from GW data

Speaker: Archisman Ghosh (Ghent University)

11:55 Neutron stars and nuclear physics

Speaker: Jan Ryckebusch

12:05 How to detect a neutrino?

Speaker: Alexis Nikolakopoulos

12:15 Dark matter @ LHC and IceCUBE

Speaker: Didar Dobur

12:30 Wrap-up discussion: fundamental physics

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Afternoon session: GW detectors; mirrors and coatings

14:00 ETpathfinder with focus on mirror coatings

Speaker: Jessica Steinlechner

14:30 Mirror coatings loss measurements

Speaker: Viola Spagnuolo

14:40 COCOON @ UGent

Speaker: Christophe Detavernier

15:00 GW instrumentation @ UGent

Speaker: Daniela Pascucci

15:10 Wrap-up discussion: mirrors and coatings

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee

15:50 → 17:10 Afternoon session: noise in GW detectors and quantum technology

Convener: Daniela Pascucci

15:50 GW detector noise and quantum squeezing

Speaker: Stefan Danilishin

16:20 Theoretical aspects of quantum squeezing

Speaker: Frank Verstraete

16:40 The "null stream" of GW detectors

Speaker: Ayatri Singha

16:50 Wrap-up discussion: GW detector noise