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, 23 October 2023 (09:00) to Tuesday, 24 October 2023 (23:30)

Monday, 23 October 2023

09:00 Coffee / Registration
Coffee / Registration
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Welcome - Stefan Hild
Welcome
- Stefan Hild
09:30 - 09:40
Room: B0.001
09:40 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)
09:40 - 10:30
Room: B0.001
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Status Talks
Status Talks
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B0.001
Contributions

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

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

11:40 Status of the Einstein Telescope - Andreas Freise

12:05 Status of LISA - Gijs Nelemans (Radboud University Nijmegen)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

13:30 Discussion: Future BE-NL Meetings
Discussion: Future BE-NL Meetings
13:30 - 14:00
Room: C0.004
14:00 Plenary
Plenary
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B0.001
Contributions

14:00 Short interview Ed van den Heuvel on early days of GW Astronomy

14:15 Binary star channels of stripped-envelope supernovae. - Reinhold Willcox (KU Leuven)

14:30 First observational constraints on the GW-AGN connection through spatial correlation analysis. - Niccolò Veronesi (Leiden Observatory)

14:45 Evaluating the GW detectability of stellar populations using BPASS and LEGWORK - Wouter van Zeist

15:00 GW afterglow searches with MeerKAT, VLA and EVN radio telescopes - Joeri van Leeuwen
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Plenary
Plenary
16:00 - 17:30
Room: B0.001
Contributions

16:00 Follow-up Analyses to the O3 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Lensing Searches - Justin Janquart

16:15 Joint parameter estimation on overlapping gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact binaries with Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer - Tomek Baka (Utrecht University, Nikhef)

16:30 Bayesian inference of binary black holes with inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms using two eccentric parameters - Antoni Ramos-Buades (Nikhef)

16:45 'Black hole ringdown modelling: linking the horizon dynamics to the gravitational wave observations' - Xisco Jimenez Forteza (Utrecht University and Nikhef)

17:00 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)

17:15 Simulation-based inference for stochastic gravitational wave background data analysis - Christoph Weniger (University of Amsterdam)
19:00 Social Evening
Social Evening
19:00 - 22:00
Tuesday, 24 October 2023

08:30 Coffee
Coffee
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Parallel 1
Parallel 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B0.001
Contributions

09:00 Can the gravitational wave background feel wiggles in spacetime? - Gen Ye (Lei)

09:15 First order phase transitions in the early universe and quantizing particles across the wall - Miguel Vanvlasselaer (VUB)

09:30 Ringdown of rotating black holes in higher-derivative gravity - Simon Maenaut (KU Leuven)

09:45 Tidal properties of neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories of gravity - Gastón Creci (Utrecht University)

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

10:15 Simulation of the gravitational-wave emission of core-collapse supernovae - Arthur Offermans
Parallel 1
Parallel 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: C0.008
Contributions

09:00 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)

09:15 Sequential simulation-based inference for gravitational waves of the current and future era - Uddipta Bhardwaj (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

09:30 Detection of anomalies amongst LIGO's glitch populations with autoencoders - Melissa Lopez

09:45 Generating template banks for searches of precessing Binary Black Holes - Stefano Schmidt

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

10:15 Stochastic gravitational wave background constraints from Gaia DR3 astrometry - Santiago Jaraba (Instituto de Física Teórica (UAM-CSIC))
Parallel 1
Parallel 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: C0.004
Contributions

09:00 The Eyes of LISA

09:15 Mirror coating test facility - cryogenic technology

09:30 Coating thermal noise direct measurement at cryogenic temperature - Enrico Porcelli (Nikhef)

09:45 Optical setup for coating thermal noise measurements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:45 Back-Action Evading Measurement in Gravitational Wave Detectors to Overcome Standard Quantum Limit, Using Negative Radiation Pressure - souvik agasti (University of Hasselt)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Posters
Posters
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Two-coloured laser light to control the Einstein Telescope

13:30 "Investigating test mass parameters for the Einstein Telescope interferometer "

13:35 Semianalytic code for I/O mode cleaners design - Sasa Topic (Vrije Universitet Brussels B-PHOT)

13:35 Optical prototyping at VUB Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT)

13:40 The impact of the magnetic correlated noise on the anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave background

13:40 Optimal control for seismic isolation platforms

13:40 Mirror Coatings for Gravitational-Wave Detectors - Jessica Steinlechner

13:40 New coating materials for thermal noise reduction in room temperature gravitational wave detectors - Viola Spagnuolo (Maastricht University)

13:45 High-Quality Coating Materials for future Cryogenic Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detectors - Alex Amato (Maastricht University)

14:00 Advancing Gravitational-Wave Detection Through Ion Implantation for Low Thermal Noise Coatings - Janis Woehler (Maastricht University) Luca Massaro (Maastricht University)

14:00 Development of cryogenic technologies for future gravitational-wave detectors - Guido Alex Iandolo (GWFP, Maastricht University (Nikhef))

14:05 Reducing Thermal Noise in Gravitational-Wave Detectors: Crystalline Top Layer for Amorphous Coatings - Diksha Diksha (Maastricht university, GWFP (NIKHEF))
14:30 Plenary 2
Plenary 2
14:30 - 15:30
Room: B0.001
Contributions

14:30 Hunting for gravitational waves in the era of cosmic dawn - Pratika Dayal (University of groningen)

14:45 The Steady State Population of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Near a Supermassive Black Hole - Erwan Hochart (Leiden Observatory)

15:00 Cosmological inference using the Line Of Sight Redshift Prior - Freija Beirnaert (Ghent University)

15:15 Angular power spectra of anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave background: Developing statistical methods and analyzing data from ground-based detectors - Deepali Agarwal
15:30 Summaries from Parallel Sessions
Summaries from Parallel Sessions
15:30 - 16:00
Room: B0.001

16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30