Scientific Calendar Event



Description
Most of what we know so far about the origin and evolution of the Universe is based on the information carried by electromagnetic radiation received from distant objects or composing the CMB. The recent direct detections of Gravitational Waves (GWs) have opened a new window of observation for phenomena in which gravity, instead of light, is the messenger. A few black hole and neutron star mergers have been reported and a plethora of new events are expected to be detected in the near-to-mid future. Many possible sources, especially related to the physics of the early Universe, produce (stochastic backgrounds of) GWs with a characteristic frequency much larger than the LIGO frequency range. The detection of high frequency GWs (HFGWs) is however very challenging, and only a few proposals have been made so far.

The goal of this workshop is an open-minded discussion on the experimental and theoretical prospects of HFGWs. What are the possible sources and how well are they theoretically understood? What are the challenges faced in experimental setups and what are possible ideas to go beyond current technology? What can we learn about our Universe within the expected sensitivity of these proposals in the next decade? Our goal is to tackle these open questions by gathering a selected sample of people who are interested in these questions both from the theoretical and the experimental points of view. A few dedicated talks aim at introducing the key aspects and questions and bridging the gap between the different communities, while leaving ample time for discussions.


Topics:
 
  • High Frequency Gravitational Waves
  • Early Universe Cosmology
  • High energy phase transitions
  • Non-perturbative phenomena
  • Interferometers
  • Acoustic Cavities
  • Optically levitated Sensors

Speakers include:

Odylio D. Aguiar (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE)
Andreas Bauswein (GSI Darmstadt)
Mike Cruise (University of Birmingham)
Daniel Figueroa (Instituto de Física Corpuscular - IFIC)
Andrew Geraci (Northwestern University)
Maxim Goryachev (University of Western Australia)
Hartmut Grote (Cardiff University)
Mark Hindmarsh (University of Helsinki & University of Sussex)
David Ottaway (University of Adelaide)
Marco Peloso (University of Padova)


 

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  • Monday, 14 October 2019
    • 08:30 - 17:45 Monday, 14 October 2019
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Registration & Administrative Formalities 55' ( Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1) )
      • 09:25 Welcome by Prof. Fernando Quevedo (ICTP Director) 5'
      • 09:30 Introduction to Cosmological Sources of HFGW 45'
        Speaker: Daniel Figueroa (Instituto de Física Corpuscular - IFIC)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:15 OzGrav HF: A detector for studying nuclear matter at extreme pressure, temperature and density 45'
        Speaker: David Ottaway (University of Adelaide)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:30 Discussion 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Convener: Valerie Domcke
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Neutron star mergers and kHz gravitational-wave emission 45'
        Speaker: Andreas Bauswein (GSI Darmstadt)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:45 The Schenberg Gravitational Wave Antenna 45'
        Speaker: Odylio Aguiar (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais - INPE)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Experimental upper limits on (ultra) high-frequency gravitational waves and prospects for more: Magnetic conversion detectors and correlated interferometry 45'
        Speaker: Hartmut Grote (Cardiff University)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:45 Discussion 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Convener: Francesco Muia
    • 18:30 - 18:31 Reception
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria
  • Tuesday, 15 October 2019
    • 09:30 - 18:50 Tuesday, 15 October 2019
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Strategies for GW science at 1GHz and above 45'
        Speaker: Mike Cruise (University of Birmingham)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:15 Gravitational waves from phase transitions 45'
        Speaker: Mark Hindmarsh (University of Helsinki & University of Sussex)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:30 Discussion 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Convener: Sebastian Steinlechner
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Detecting high-frequency gravitational waves with optically-levitated sensors 45'
        Speaker: Andrew Geraci (Northwestern University)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:45 Gravitational Waves from Inflation and Primordial Black Holes 45'
        Speaker: Marco Peloso (University of Padova)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Gravitational waves from preheating: parameter dependence 20'
        Speaker: Francisco Torrenti (University of Basel)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:20 Gravitational Imprints of Flavour Hierarchies 20'
        Speaker: Toby Opferkuch (CERN)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:40 A pipeline for searching Stochastic Gravitational Wave by Pulsar Timing Residuals 10'
        Speaker: Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Movahed (Shahid Beheshti University)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:50 Discussion 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Convener: Jessica Steinlechner
  • Wednesday, 16 October 2019
    • 09:30 - 12:30 Tuesday, 16 October 2019
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 High Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection with Bulk Acoustic Wave Devices: From Technology to First Data 45'
        Speaker: Maxim Goryachev (University of Western Australia)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:15 Parametric signal amplification for a high-frequency gravitational detector 20'
        Speaker: Ken-Ichi Harada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:35 High frequency gravitational waves from axion clumps 20'
        Speaker: Sichun Sun (Sapienza University of Roma)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:30 Discussion: How to move forward? 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Convener: Giancarlo Cella & Angelo Ricciardone
        Material: Slides Video