We are pleased to announce that the 2027 session of the MaNiTou summer school on gravitational waves will be at the Les Houches School of Physics (Les Houches, France) in 2027. This will be a month long summer school, from July 5 to July 30. So please mark your schedules.
Application and registration information will be coming soon. The priority for the school will be PhD students, young postdocs, and exceptional masters students. We will also consider participation from researchers/professors/engineers thinking to change their research area to gravitational waves.
The nominal cost for the school will be 2100 €; this will cover accommodation and meals. The organizing committee is actively trying to raise funds to diminish this cost and provide some scholarships. Again, more information will be coming soon.
The confirmed speakers and topics are the following:
- Simone Speziale, gravitational-wave theory
- Frédérique Marion, gravitational-wave data analysis
- Joe Romano, physical conditions to create gravitational waves, and stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds
- Sylvain Marsat, hands-on sessions on gravitational-wave data analysis
- Walid Chaibi, ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers
- Alessandra Buonanno, gravitational waveform modeling
- Michela Mapelli, the astrophysics of gravitational-wave sources, and gravitational-wave and binary systems: formation and astrophysics
- Samaya Nissanke, lectures on electromagnetic followup of gravitational-wave events: techniques and results
- Neil Cornish, an introduction to Bayesian parameter estimation, and applications to gravitational-wave sources
- Mairi Sakellariadou, early universe cosmology and beyond the standard model particle physics, observational cosmology with gravitational waves, and tests of theories of gravity with gravitational-waves
- Simone Mastrogiovanni, cosmology with gravitational waves, Bayesian methods, technical aspects, and future studies with third generation gravitational-wave detectors.
- Viola Sordini, recent observations by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA and their implications
- Stefan Hild, advanced quantum techniques and third-generation gravitational-wave interferometers
- Eric Gourgoulhon, black hole physics
- Gudrun Wanner, space based gravitational-wave detectors – LISA and future missions.
- Harald Pfeiffer, numerical relativity: introduction and application to black holes
- Tim Dietritch, numerical relativity: binaries with neutron stars
- Astrid Lamberts, LISA science and sources
- Natalia Korsakova, an introduction to artificial intelligence techniques with applications for gravitational waves – tools for coding and data analysis, including hands-on sessions
- Maria Alessandra Papa, continuous wave gravitational-wave searches
- Michael Kramer, pulsars, pulsar observations, and pulsar timing
- Bruce Allen, pulsar timing arrays: introduction and detection principles, and PTA harmonic analysis.
- Michele Vallisneri, the Bayesian approach for PTA, results
For any immediate questions, please reach out to a member of the Organizing Committee.
We look forward to seeing you in Les Houches!
The Organizing Committee –
Bruce Allen
Marie Anne Bizouard
Nelson Christensen
Sebastien Guillot
Eric Kajfasz
Michele Mancarella
Christian Marinoni
Sylvain Marsat
Raphael Mignon-Risse
Samaya Nissanke
Maria Alessandra Papa
Delphine Porquet
Nicola Tamanini
Gudrun Wanner