7th Belgian-Dutch Gravitational Waves Meeting

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 10:00 → 19:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Donald Smitszaal (Smitsborg, Zernike Campus, University of Groningen)

The 7th Belgian-Dutch Gravitational Waves Meeting will be hosted by the Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity at the University of Groningen. This event aims to bring together astronomers and physicists interested in gravitational wave science and for researchers to inform each other of recent developments and new projects. The meeting will start at 10:30am with a keynote lecture. In addition, there will be overview talks on general topics/experiments as well as contributed talks on specific projects, particularly by students and postdocs. The day will be closed with drinks and snacks. This meeting is open to all interested researchers, also from outside the Netherlands and Belgium.

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee and welcome

10:30 → 11:20 Keynote lecture (John Veitch, U. Glasgow)

10:30 Gravitational wave astronomy after the first discoveries

Speaker: Dr John Veitch

Slides Veitch.pdf

11:20 → 12:20 Session 1

11:20 Advanced Virgo and Einstein Telescope

Speaker: Dr Bas Swinkels (Nikhef)

Slides Swinkels.pdf

11:40 LIGO-Virgo data analysis

Speaker: Dr Archisman Ghosh (Nikhef)

Slides Ghosh.pdf

12:00 Gravitational wave astrophysics

Speaker: Dr Tanja Hinderer (Radboud University Nijmegen)

12:20 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Session 2

13:30 The phase cameras of Advanced Virgo

Speaker: Ms Laura Van der Schaaf (Nikhef)

Slides VanderSchaaf.pdf

13:45 Nano-g MEMS accelerometers using geometric anti-springs

Speaker: Mr Boris Boom (Nikhef)

14:00 Seismic noise characterization at Limburg, a potential site for Einstein Telescope

Speaker: Mr Soumen Koley (Nikhef)

Slides Koley.pptx

14:15 The BlackGEM array of telescopes for optical follow-up of gravitational wave sources

Speaker: Dr Steven Bloemen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Slides Bloemen.pdf

14:30 Low-frequency radio follow-up of gravitational wave merger events with LOFAR

Speaker: Ms Kelly GOURDJI (API, University of Amsterdam)

Slides Gourdji.pdf

14:45 ARGO: The Apertif Radio-Gravitational wave Observatory

Speaker: Dr Joeri Van Leeuwen (ASTRON)

Slides VanLeeuwen.pdf

15:00 The impact of the solar wind on Pulsar Timing Array

Speaker: Dr Shaifullah Golam (ASTRON)

15:15 Active seismic isolation using optical inertial sensors

Speaker: Ms Jennifer Watchi (ULB)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 18:00 Session 3

16:00 A multi-messenger picture of binary neutron star mergers

Speaker: Dr Tim Dietrich (Nikhef)

Slides Dietrich.pdf

16:15 Estimating the cosmological parameters from gravitational wave observations

Speaker: Mr Ankan Sur (University of Amsterdam)

Slides Sur.pdf Sur.pptx

16:30 Testing the black hole no-hair conjecture with gravitational waves

Speaker: Dr Anuradha Samajdar (Nikhef)

Slides Samajdar.pdf

16:45 A morphology-independent data analysis method for detecting and characterizing gravitational wave echoes

Speaker: Mr Ka Wa Tsang (Nikhef)

Slides Tsang.pdf

17:00 Probing ultralight bosons with binary black holes

Speaker: Mr Hong Sheng Chia (University of Amsterdam)

Slides Horng.pdf

17:15 Gravitational waves from nearly maximally spinning, supermassive black holes

Speaker: Mr Kwinten Fransen (KU Leuven)

Slides Fransen.pdf

17:30 Constraining the Milky Way potential by combining GW and EM observations

Speaker: Ms Valeriya Korol (Leiden Observatory)

Slides Korol.pdf

17:45 Predicting gravitational waves for neutron star-black hole systems

Speaker: Mr Bas Bemelmans (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Slides Bemelmans.pptx

18:00 → 19:00 Drinks