Autumn Workshop

"Aspects of Gravity"

 

October 6 to 8, 2020

in Cyberspace

Bielefeld University

Tuesday, October 6

10:00

Dominik Schwarz
Bielefeld

Welcome

10:15

Mourad Halla
ZARM Bremen

Application of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to lensing in the NUT Metric

10:45

Frans Klinkhamer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

M-Theory and the Birth of the Universe

11:15

Coffee Break

11:30

Florian Kühnel 
LMU München

Primordial Black Holes

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Abraham Harte
DCU Dublin

Graviational Lensing and Geometric Optics in General Relativity

15:00

Coffee Break

15:15

Torben Frost
ZARM Bremen

Gravitational Lensing by Accelerating Black Holes with Cosmological Constant

15:45

Andrea Macciò
New York Univ. Abu Dhabi

Do We Need to Go Beyond Cold Dark Matter?

16:15

End of day

Wednesday, October 7

10:00

Abhishek Mahajan
Shri Shivaji Science College

Higher Dimensional Dark Energy Model in Saez-Ballester Scalar-Tensor Theory of Gravitation

10:30

Henrique Rubira
DESY Hamburg

A Hybrid Simulation of Gravitational Wave Production in First-Order Phase Transitions

11:00

Coffee Break

11:15

Roman Konoplya
Silesian Univ. in Opava

Parametrization of Spherically and Axially Symmetric Black Holes

11:45

Michael Wondrak
Goethe-Uni Frankfurt

From Regular Black Holes to Experimental Constraints

12:15

Lunch

14:00

Sarah Vigeland
Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Gravitational Wave Dectection with Pulsar Timing Arrays

15:00

Coffee Break

15:15

Frederic Vincent
Observatoire de Paris PSL

Using Light to Probe the Vicinity of Supermassive Black Holes

16:15

End of day

Thursday, October 8

10:00

Alman AlEryani
Uni Tübingen

An Introduction to Spin Networks

10:30

Matheus C. Teodoro
Uni Oldenburg

Tidal Disruption Events Around Spherically Symmetric Compact Boson Stars

11:00

Coffee Break

11:15

Beate Curdes
HS Bochum

Field-Specific Ability Beliefs can Explain Female Underrepresentation

12:15

Lunch

14:00

Emily Petroff
Utrecht

Recent Developments in Fast Radio Bursts

15:00

End of meeting