Gravitational memory and spacetime symmetries
Symmetries of spacetime infinitely far away from gravitational fields may hint at new laws of nature
AEI PTA Ringberg Meeting, March 2025
Schedule
Sunday, March 9th
- 18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:00 Welcome session
Monday, March 10th
- 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
- 9:00 - 09:45 Overview of current PTA activities, Siyuan Chen
- 09:45 - 10:30 AEI PTA Hackathon: Towards Discovery, Boris Goncharov (slides)
- 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 - 12:30 SPRINT 1
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
- 14:00 - 15:30 Pulsar Timing Array data analysis, Rutger van Haasteren
- 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
- 16:00 - 18:20 SPRINT 2
- 18:20 - 18:30 Hackathon presentation
- 18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:00 Summary discussion
Tuesday, March 11th
- 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
- 9:00 - 10:30 SPRINT 3
- 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 - 12:20 SPRINT 4
- 12:20 - 12:30 Hackathon presentation
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
- 14:00 - 15:30 Supermassive binary black hole astrophysics, Enrico Barausse (slides)
- 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
- 16:00 - 17:30 SPRINT 5
- 17:30 - 18:30 Castle Tour
- 18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:00 Summary discussion
Wednesday, March 12th
- 8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
- 9:00 - 10:30 Hackathon final presentation and discussion
- 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 - 12:00 Summary discussion
Recent Work
Gravitational memory and spacetime symmetries
The nanohertz gravitational wave background
Is the common-spectrum process observed with pulsar timing arrays a precursor to the detection?