GRAPPA Colloquia for the academic year 2023-24




Date Speaker Host @ GRAPPA Title Abstract Affiliation Location
11/09/2023 Chris Byrnes Pippa Cole Primordial black holes: A (finely-tuned) opportunity for understanding cosmology From the origin of the merging compact objects seen by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA to the source of the stochastic gravitational waves seen by pulsar timing arrays via the QCD transition, there is a happy coincidence of scales which could point to primordial black holes. Combined with the long running dark matter search and hunt for new observables from inflation, there are many reasons to hope to learn a lot more from primordial black holes. However, generating such black holes in a simple model remains far from simple. University of Sussex C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
23/10/2023 Sherry Suyu Philipp Moesta TBA TBA Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany.
Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences.
C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
02/11/2023 (Joint API/GRAPPA) Michele Vallisneri Samaya Nissanke TBA TBA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
27/11/2023 Josu Aurrekoetxea TBA TBA TBA University of Oxford. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
11/12/2023 Katy Storey-Fisher TBA TBA TBA Donostia International Physics Centre. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
08/01/2024 Gaëtan Facchinetti TBA TBA TBA Université Libre de Bruxelles. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
22/01/2024 Ssohrab Borhanian TBA TBA TBA Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
12/02/2024 Stefania Beolé TBA TBA TBA Università degli studi di Torino. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
18/03/2024 Anthony Piro TBA TBA TBA Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, California. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
22/04/2024 Foteini Oikonomou TBA TBA TBA Norwegian University of Science and Technology. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
08/05/2024 Shirley Ho TBA TBA TBA CCA, Flatiron Institute. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
27/05/2024 Aart Heijboer TBA TBA TBA Nikhef. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
10/06/2024 Maria Haney TBA TBA TBA Nikhef/UvA. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam
20/06/2024 Chiara Mingarelli TBA TBA TBA Yale University. C4.174, GRAPPA, Science Park 904, Amsterdam