Name: Belgian-Dutch Gravitational Wave Meeting 2023
Start: 2023-10-23T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-10-24T23:30:00+02:00
Location: PHS1

Belgian-Dutch Gravitational Wave Meeting 2023

from Monday, October 23, 2023 (9:00 AM) to Tuesday, October 24, 2023 (11:30 PM)

Monday, October 23, 2023

9:00 AM Coffee / Registration
Coffee / Registration
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Welcome - Stefan Hild
Welcome
- Stefan Hild
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM
Room: B0.001
9:40 AM Emerging evicende for nano-Hertz gravitational wave signals in Pulsar Timing Array data: history, recent results and future prospects - Gemma Janssen (Astron)
Emerging evicende for nano-Hertz gravitational wave signals in Pulsar Timing Array data: history, recent results and future prospects
- Gemma Janssen (Astron)
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: B0.001
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Status Talks
Status Talks
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: B0.001
Contributions

11:00 AM Status of LIGO-Virgo-Kagra - Anna Green

11:15 AM Overview of LIGO-Virgo-Kagra data analysis and observational science - Anna Puecher (Nikhef)

11:40 AM Status of the Einstein Telescope - Andreas Freise

12:05 PM Status of LISA - Gijs Nelemans (Radboud University Nijmegen)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

1:30 PM Discussion: Future BE-NL Meetings
Discussion: Future BE-NL Meetings
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: C0.004
2:00 PM Plenary
Plenary
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: B0.001
Contributions

2:00 PM Short interview Ed van den Heuvel on early days of GW Astronomy

2:15 PM Binary star channels of stripped-envelope supernovae. - Reinhold Willcox (KU Leuven)

2:30 PM First observational constraints on the GW-AGN connection through spatial correlation analysis. - Niccolò Veronesi (Leiden Observatory)

2:45 PM Evaluating the GW detectability of stellar populations using BPASS and LEGWORK - Wouter van Zeist

3:00 PM GW afterglow searches with MeerKAT, VLA and EVN radio telescopes - Joeri van Leeuwen
3:30 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Plenary
Plenary
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: B0.001
Contributions

4:00 PM Follow-up Analyses to the O3 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Lensing Searches - Justin Janquart

4:15 PM Joint parameter estimation on overlapping gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact binaries with Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer - Tomek Baka (Utrecht University, Nikhef)

4:30 PM Bayesian inference of binary black holes with inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms using two eccentric parameters - Antoni Ramos-Buades (Nikhef)

4:45 PM 'Black hole ringdown modelling: linking the horizon dynamics to the gravitational wave observations' - Xisco Jimenez Forteza (Utrecht University and Nikhef)

5:00 PM Combining individual binary black hole detections and gravitational-wave background data to infer the binary black hole time-delay distribution - Kevin Turbang (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Universiteit Antwerpen)

5:15 PM Simulation-based inference for stochastic gravitational wave background data analysis - Christoph Weniger (University of Amsterdam)
7:00 PM Social Evening
Social Evening
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

8:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Parallel 1
Parallel 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: B0.001
Contributions

9:00 AM Can the gravitational wave background feel wiggles in spacetime? - Gen Ye (Lei)

9:15 AM First order phase transitions in the early universe and quantizing particles across the wall - Miguel Vanvlasselaer (VUB)

9:30 AM Ringdown of rotating black holes in higher-derivative gravity - Simon Maenaut (KU Leuven)

9:45 AM Tidal properties of neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories of gravity - Gastón Creci (Utrecht University)

10:00 AM Machine learning algorithms for the conservative-to-primitive conversion in relativistic hydrodynamics - Thibeau Wouters (Utrecht University)

10:15 AM Simulation of the gravitational-wave emission of core-collapse supernovae - Arthur Offermans
Parallel 1
Parallel 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: C0.008
Contributions

9:00 AM Gravitational-wave parameter estimation with relative binning: Inclusion of higher-order modes and precession, and applications to lensing and third-generation detectors - Harsh Narola (Utrecht University)

9:15 AM Sequential simulation-based inference for gravitational waves of the current and future era - Uddipta Bhardwaj (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

9:30 AM Detection of anomalies amongst LIGO's glitch populations with autoencoders - Melissa Lopez

9:45 AM Generating template banks for searches of precessing Binary Black Holes - Stefano Schmidt

10:00 AM Estimating Astrophysical Population Properties using a multi-component Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background Search - Federico De Lillo (UCLouvain - CP3)

10:15 AM Stochastic gravitational wave background constraints from Gaia DR3 astrometry - Santiago Jaraba (Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM-CSIC))
Parallel 1
Parallel 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: C0.004
Contributions

9:00 AM The Eyes of LISA

9:15 AM Mirror coating test facility - cryogenic technology

9:30 AM Coating thermal noise direct measurement at cryogenic temperature - Enrico Porcelli (Nikhef)

9:45 AM Optical setup for coating thermal noise measurements

10:00 AM Research & Development of novel position sensors and actuators for seismic attenuation systems of ETpathfinder
10:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Parallel 2
Parallel 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: B0.001
Contributions

11:00 AM Impact of Physically Motivated Calibration Errors on Core-Collapse Supernova Searches - Milan Wils (KU Leuven)

11:15 AM Towards Precision Cosmology with Galaxy Catalogues - Gergely Dálya (Ghent University)

11:30 AM Luminosity of the darkness - Cezary Turski (Ghent University)

12:00 PM Gravitational lensing of standard sirens: a systematic effect on cosmological parameters’ estimation. - Sofia Canevarolo

12:15 PM Clustering of gravitational waves in LCDM and effective field theories of gravity - Anna Balaudo (Leiden University)
Parallel 2
Parallel 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: C0.004
Contributions

11:00 AM Crystalline Silicon Blades- Suspension system for Einstein Telescope Project

11:15 AM Updates from the Omnisens project, a 6D sensor and active platform for low frequency seismic isolation

11:30 AM Software ecosystem for simulation and design of I/O GW Interferometer cavities

11:45 AM Back-Action Evading Measurement in Gravitational Wave Detectors to Overcome Standard Quantum Limit, Using Negative Radiation Pressure - souvik agasti (University of Hasselt)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Posters
Posters
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Two-coloured laser light to control the Einstein Telescope

1:30 PM "Investigating test mass parameters for the Einstein Telescope interferometer "

1:35 PM Semianalytic code for I/O mode cleaners design - Sasa Topic (Vrije Universitet Brussels B-PHOT)

1:35 PM Optical prototyping at VUB Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT)

1:40 PM The impact of the magnetic correlated noise on the anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave background

1:40 PM Optimal control for seismic isolation platforms

1:40 PM Mirror Coatings for Gravitational-Wave Detectors - Jessica Steinlechner

1:40 PM New coating materials for thermal noise reduction in room temperature gravitational wave detectors - Viola Spagnuolo (Maastricht University)

1:45 PM High-Quality Coating Materials for future Cryogenic Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detectors - Alex Amato (Maastricht University)

2:00 PM Advancing Gravitational-Wave Detection Through Ion Implantation for Low Thermal Noise Coatings - Janis Woehler (Maastricht University) Luca Massaro (Maastricht University)

2:00 PM Development of cryogenic technologies for future gravitational-wave detectors - Guido Alex Iandolo (GWFP, Maastricht University (Nikhef))

2:05 PM Reducing Thermal Noise in Gravitational-Wave Detectors: Crystalline Top Layer for Amorphous Coatings - Diksha Diksha (Maastricht university, GWFP (NIKHEF))
2:30 PM Plenary 2
Plenary 2
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: B0.001
Contributions

2:30 PM Hunting for gravitational waves in the era of cosmic dawn - Pratika Dayal (University of groningen)

2:45 PM The Steady State Population of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Near a Supermassive Black Hole - Erwan Hochart (Leiden Observatory)

3:00 PM Cosmological inference using the Line Of Sight Redshift Prior - Freija Beirnaert (Ghent University)

3:15 PM Angular power spectra of anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave background: Developing statistical methods and analyzing data from ground-based detectors - Deepali Agarwal
3:30 PM Summaries from Parallel Sessions
Summaries from Parallel Sessions
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: B0.001

4:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM