February 5, 2019

Speaker: Masaru Shibata

Contact Information: masaru.shibata@aei.mpg.de

Title: “Merger and mass ejection of neutron-star binaries in numerical relativity”.

Abstract: On August 17th, 2017, merger of binary neutron stars was observed for the first time by gravitational-wave and electromagnetic telescopes. Optical and infrared observations in particular agree broadly with the prediction by numerical relativity. From this March, advanced LIGO and VIRGO will start observation again and we expect a few more observations of neutron-star mergers (including black hole-neutron star merger). I will review our current understanding for neutron-star mergers and related mass ejection that are obtained by numerical relativity simulations and summarize predicted observational (optical and infrared) features for next events.

Visit Schedule:

Tuesday (05 Feb 2019):

10:30 a.m.: Coffee / Talk Prep
11:00 a.m.: Colloquium
12:15 p.m.: Bahcall Lunch
2:00 p.m.:
2:30 p.m.: Tomoaki Matsumoto (Peyton 205)
3:00 p.m.: Adam Burrows (Peyton 105)
3:30 p.m.: Tea with grad students
4:00 p.m. Sasha Philippov
4:30 p.m.: Anatoly Spitkovsky (123 Peyton)
5:00 p.m.: Kengo Tomida (Peyton 206 - I am happy to yield this slot if needed)
5:30 p.m.: Kenta Hotokezaka (121 Peyton)
6:00 p.m.: DINNER WITH HOST - meet in Grand Central

Dinner Sign-up (students have priority; 8 MAX) - add your name here:

1. Speaker

2. Faculty host: Anatoly Spitkovsky

3. Postdoc host: Kenta Hotokezaka

4. Patrick Crumley (will arrive around 6:45pm, please order for me (dinner of crabcakes + sweet potato)

5. Tomohiro Ono

6. Satoshi Kikuta

8. Kengo Tomida (I'm happy to yield this slot)

NO MORE THAN 8 PEOPLE (otherwise it is very difficult to properly interact with the speaker)