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. For questions, suggestions, or access to a live stream of the seminar, please contact mudit.garg(at)uzh.ch.
Spring Semester 2024 - Upcoming Talks
| Speaker & affiliation | Seminar title + abstract | Date, time & place |
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Physik-Institut University of Zurich |
Gravitational wave cosmology with standard sirens |
Tuesday, 25.02.25, 15:00 UZH Irchel Y13 K05 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Tata Institute for Fundamental Research Mumbai |
Learning the Universe Using Gravitational Waves |
Tuesday, 12.11.24, 15:00 Online |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Department of theoretical physics CERN |
Gravitational waves as a probe of the early Universe |
Tuesday, 12.03.24, 11:15 ETH Hönggerberg, HPV G5 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
EMRIs characteristics as LISA sources |
Tuesday, 07.02.23, 14:00 Irchel Y11-F-42 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching |
Galactic Explorations with LISA |
Tuesday, 16.05.23, 15:00 Irchel Y36-K-08 |
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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 |
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Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam |
Dirty Gravitational Waves |
Tuesday, 13.12.22, 15:00 Irchel Y36-K-08 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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CENTRA, University of Lisboa |
Black holes: the last frontier |
Thursday, 10.06.2021, 16:00 Zoom (remote) |
