Programme
Monday 15 April
All talks are in the conference room OCW017 (ground floor of Ogden Centre West)
Talks are 20 minutes with 5 minutes questions & answers.
09:00-09:40 Registration
09:40-09:45 Welcome
09:45-10:10 Fasiello: Primordial gravitational waves as a probe of the inflationary particle content
10:10-10:35 d'Emilio: The effects of mass distribution assumptions on BBH population inference
10:35-11:00 Mandhai: Constraining the local population of faint short duration GRBs
11:00-11:30 Coffee break (first floor common area of OCW)
11:30-11:55 Balakumar: Hadamard renormalisation for charged scalar fields
11:55-12:20 Schmieding: Quantum linearisation instability conditions in supergravity on a 3-Torus
12:20-12:45 James: Development of a new photodetector for Advanced LIGO
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:15-14:40 O'toole: Time domain method for the Green function in Schwarzschild spacetime
14:40-15:05 Heffernan: Regularisation of the self-force for generic orbits in Kerr spacetime
15:05-15:30 Morley: Do boundary conditions affect vacuum polarisation?
15:30-16:00 Coffee break (first floor common area of OCW)
16:00-16:25 Reina: First order perturbations of general hypersurfaces and applications
16:25-16:50 Bourg: Critical collapse of perfect fluid in 3+1
16:50-17:15 Hoy: Exploring the measurability of precession
17:15-17:40 Peach: Emergent Dark Gravity from Non-Holographic Screens
Tuesday 16 April
All talks are in the conference room OCW017 (ground floor of Ogden Centre West)
09:00-09:25 Mitchell: Modelling the concentration of haloes in modified gravity
09:25-09:50 Tamosiunas: Testing gravity on galaxy cluster scales
09:50-10:15 Wright: Investigating the degeneracy between modified gravity and massive neutrinos with redshift space distortions
10:15-10:40 Xia: Constraints on Hu-Sawicki f(R) gravity from cluster number counts
10:40-11:10 Coffee break (first floor common area of OCW)
11:10-11:35 Karamitsos: Inflation and quintessence beyond the poles in attractor models
11:35-12:00 Finn: Shedding light on the initial conditions of inflation with the Eisenhart lift
12:00-12:25 Manuel: Black holes seeding cosmological phase transitions
12:25-12:50 Drew: Radiation from global Topological strings using adaptive mesh refinement
12:50-14:20 Lunch
14:20-14:45 Kenna-Allison: Questioning the viability of bigravity cosmology
14:45-15:10 Melville: Improving IR parameter estimation using UV consistency
15:10-15:35 Cataneo: Modelling nonlinearities beyond vanilla LCDM
15:35-16:00 Giblin: Accurate nonlinear calibration in cosmologies beyond LCDM
16:00-16:30 Coffee break (first floor common area of OCW)