Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, and Compact Binaries
This new seminar series hosts talks by researchers at any level, from local graduate students to distinguished visiting senior colleagues.
Spring Semester 2024 - Upcoming Talks
| Speaker & affiliation | Seminar title + abstract | Date, time & place |
| Physik-Institut University of Zurich |
Gravitational wave cosmology with standard sirens |
Tuesday, 25.02.25, 15:00 UZH Irchel Y13 K05 |
| Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy Caltech |
Investigating the gravitational-wave background from nHz to kHz |
Tuesday, 04.03.25, 15:00 UZH Irchel Y11 F06 |
| Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen |
Looking for the origin of gravitational wave mergers: the active galactic nuclei pathway |
Tuesday, 11.03.25, 15:00 UZH Irchel Y13 K05 |
| Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam |
Wet Eccentric Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals |
Tuesday, 15.04.25, 15:00 UZH Irchel Y13 K05 |
Fall Semester 2024
| Speaker & affiliation | Seminar title + abstract | Date, time & place |
| Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Garching |
Two types of nuclear transients - tidal disruption events and high-velocity collisions |
Tuesday, 29.10.24, 15:00 UZH Irchel Y34 K02 |
| Tata Institute for Fundamental Research Mumbai |
Learning the Universe Using Gravitational Waves |
Tuesday, 12.11.24, 15:00 Online |
| Department of Science and Advanced Technology University of Insubria, Como |
Towards a comprehensive description of black hole binary inspiral from Newtonian to relativistic scales |
Wednesday, 13.11.24, 10:00 UZH Irchel Y11 F42 |
| Department of Physics Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Towards multi-messenger observations of accreting supermassive binary black holes |
Tuesday, 19.11.24, 15:00 UZH Irchel Y10 G03/04 |
| Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen |
Active galactic binaries: Evolution and observational signatures of accreting massive binaries in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics |
Tuesday, 26.11.24, 15:00 UZH Irchel Y10 G 03/04 |
Spring Semester 2024
| Speaker & affiliation | Seminar title + abstract | Date, time & place |
| Department of theoretical physics CERN |
Gravitational waves as a probe of the early Universe |
Tuesday, 12.03.24, 11:15 ETH Hönggerberg, HPV G5 |
| Department of Physics "Giuseppe Occhialini" University of Milano-Bicocca |
Searching for dark matter with gravitational waves |
Tuesday, 26.03.24, 14:00 Irchel, Y10 G03/04 |
| Physik-Institut University of Zurich |
On the memory of compact binary coalescences and their observation consequences |
Tuesday, 14.05.24, 14:30 Irchel, Y22 G74 |
| Niels Bohr International Academy Copenhagen |
Probing the Origin of Black Hole Binary Mergers with Gravitational Wave Phase Shifts |
Tuesday, 28.05.24, 14:30 Irchel, Y03 G85 |
| University of Rome-La Sapienza |
Super-critical accretion of seed black holes in gaseous protogalactic nuclei: the hindering role of star formation |
Wednesday, 19.06.24, 10:00 Irchel, Y11 F42 |
Fall Semester 2023
| Speaker & affiliation | Seminar title + abstract | Date, time & place |
| Astronomy & Astrophysics Department Columbia University |
Gravitational wave and electromagnetic signatures of binary black holes with circumbinary gas |
Wednesday, 27.09.23, 11:00 Irchel, Y10-G-03/04 |
| Physik-Institut University of Zurich |
Waveform modelling of binary black holes in the Advanced LIGO era |
Tuesday, 14.11.23, 15:00 Irchel, Y10-G-03/04 |
| Department of Physics and Astronomy Uppsala University |
Higher-Spin Scattering Amplitudes and Kerr Black Holes |
Tuesday, 19.12.23, 15:00 Irchel, Y10-G-03/04 |
Previous Seminars
Spring Semester 2023
| Speaker & affiliation | Seminar title + abstract | Date, time & place |
| Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
EMRIs characteristics as LISA sources |
Tuesday, 07.02.23, 14:00 Irchel Y11-F-42 |
| TianQin Center for Gravitational Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University |
Moving gravitational wave sources at cosmological distances: Impact on the measurement of the Hubble constant TorresOrjuela_Abstract (TXT, 1 KB)
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Tuesday, 21.03.23, 15:00 Irchel Y36-K-08 |
| Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute |
Effects of radiation and magnetic pressure on accretion disks around single and binary supermassive black holes |
Tuesday, 28.03.23, 15:00 Irchel Y36-K-08 |
| Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching |
Galactic Explorations with LISA |
Tuesday, 16.05.23, 15:00 Irchel Y36-K-08 |
| Fall 2022: | ||
| Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute |
Binary black hole formation: a multi-messenger, multi-band puzzle |
Tuesday, 06.12.22, 15:00 Irchel Y36-K-08 |
| Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam |
Dirty Gravitational Waves |
Tuesday, 13.12.22, 15:00 Irchel Y36-K-08 |
| Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Tidal Disruption Events: from Astrophysical Transients to Fundamental Physics |
Tuesday, 20.21.22, 15:00 Irchel Y11-F-42 |
Spring 2022: |
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| Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève |
Formation of coalescing stellar binary black holes: What have we learnt from gravitational-wave observations so far |
Tuesday, 15.03.2022, 14:00, Irchel Y44-H-11 |
| University of Connecticut & Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute |
Pulsar Timing Arrays: The Next Window to Open on the Gravitational-Wave Universe |
Tuesday, 31.05.2022, 15:00, Zoom (remote) Streamed in Irchel Y11-F-42 |
Fall 2021: |
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| Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory, University of Paris |
Searching for low-frequency gravitational waves with Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) |
Tuesday, 02.11.2021, 15:00, Zoom (remote) |
| Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
The Chaotic Three-Body Problem: from Newton to LIGO/Virgo |
Tuesday, 14.12.2021, 15:00, Zoom (remote) |
Spring 2021: |
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| Universitat Politècnica de Valencia |
A chartography of spacetime around supermassive black holes with extreme-mass ratio inspirals Amaro Seoane Abstract (RTF, 43 KB)
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Thursday, 25.02.2021, 16:00 Zoom (remote) |
| Rochester Institute of Technology |
Supermassive Black Hole Binary Mergers: Accretion Dynamics, Light Signals and Jets Campanelli Abstract (RTF, 1 MB) |
Thursday, 25.03.2021, 16:00 Zoom (remote) |
| University of Zurich |
Searching for gravitational waves via Doppler tracking by future missions to Uranus and Neptune |
Thursday, 20.05.2021, 16:00 Zoom (remote) |
| CENTRA, University of Lisboa |
Black holes: the last frontier |
Thursday, 10.06.2021, 16:00 Zoom (remote) |
