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PiTP is an intensive two-week summer program designed for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. The program will be held from July 14-25, 2025 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. The school will explore the field of gravitational wave physics and astrophysics, bridging the gap between theory and observation. Gravitational waves offer a unique window into the Universe, allowing us to probe extreme astrophysical environments and primordial cosmological epochs. Gravitational waves also allow for powerful tests of general relativity in the strong field regime.

Over the last decade, the direct detection of gravitational waves has opened up new avenues of research, driving rapid advancements in theoretical modeling, observational techniques, and data analysis. The school will provide a comprehensive overview of the field’s current state, covering key theoretical tools, the latest developments in modeling gravitational wave sources, and state-of-the-art methods in data analysis. These tools are essential for extracting physical insights from current observations and will be a critical foundation for interpreting data from more sensitive upcoming detectors.
PiTP Program Details

The APPLICATION deadline is Sunday, March 1, 2025 at 11:59 pm (Eastern Standard Time). If you have not received your PhD, one letter of recommendation from your thesis advisor is required and should be uploaded with the application or with this reference form.

For housing, travel, and other administrative PiTP information please see the FAQ page.

Topics will include:

Waveform models, Numerical Relativity, Gravitational Wave Searches, Parameter Estimation, Pulsar Timing Arrays, Astrophysics of Gravitational Wave Sources and interpretation of current observational data.

Preliminary Program Lecturers

Bruce Allen (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins University)
Neil Cornish (Montana State University)
Maya Fishbach (University of Toronto)
Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute)
Chiara Mingarelli (Yale University)
Patricia Schmidt (University of Birmingham)
Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Barak Zackay (Weizmann Institute)
Matias Zaldarriaga (Institute for Advanced Study)

Organizing Committee

Maya Fishbach (Toronto); Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella (UCSB); Frans Pretorius (Princeton); Barak Zackay (Weizmann); Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS)

If you have questions regarding the PiTP program, please send an email to: pitp(at)ias.edu.

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Centre for Strings, Gravitation and Cosmology (CSGC) - a research centre instituted as part of Institute of Excellence (IoE) initiative of the Government of India at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai, India is organizing the  

2nd School on Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Feb 10 (Mon) - Feb 14 (Fri), 2025

The proposed school is intended to introduce beginning Ph.D. students and Postdoctoral fellows to research themes of current interest in Black hole physics and Gravitational waves. The lectures will be complemented by tutorial sessions that will help provide hands-on experience to the participants in employing the tools and techniques discussed in the lectures directly in their research work. Topics that will be the focus of the lectures are:

1. Gravitational self-force and tidal effects in black hole dynamics
2. Numerical Relativity and its applications in cosmology, astrophysics and black hole physics
3. Observational aspects of black holes and gravitational waves, including experimental tests of GR

We invite the interested researchers to register for the school before Nov 30, 2024. For registration details and other relevant information, please follow the links on the top of the page.

Scientific Organising Committee:

• Guillaume Faye (IAP, Paris, France)
• B S Sathyaprakash (Penn State University, US & Cardiff University, UK)
• Dawood Kothawala, Chandra Kant Mishra, L Sriramkumar (IIT Madras, India)

Local Organising Committee:
Subhodeep Sarkar, Syed Naqvi, Dawood Kothawala & Chandra Kant Mishra (IIT Madras)

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The School aims at providing robust and detailed introductions on the basic theoretical concepts and main tools to work in the field of Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation. Gravitational waves of astrophysical and cosmological origin, neutrino physics and astronomy, early universe physics, dark matter and dark energy, galactic and extra-galactic cosmic rays and gamma-rays will be some among the main topics, and will be alternated along the years. The courses are organised as lectures and are integrated with hands-on and discussion sessions with an instructor.

he School will start on Monday, March 11, at 9:00am and end on Friday, March 22, at 1:00pm.

Organizers
Nicola Bartolo (University of Padova and INFN/Padova)
Carmelo Evoli (Gran Sasso Science Institute/L’Aquila)
Nicolao Fornengo (University of Torino and INFN/Torino)
Dario Grasso (INFN Pisa and University of Pisa)
Leonardo Gualtieri (University of Pisa and INFN/Pisa)
Eligio Lisi (INFN Bari)
Ofelia Pisanti (University of Napoli and INFN/Napoli)

Email: apcg.school(at)gmail.com

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The aim of the EMR GW PhD School is to provide beginning PhD students, primarily from the EMR countries (Belgium - Netherlands - Germany), with courses on all aspects of gravitational waves, and in particular in the context of the future Einstein Telescope and the space mission LISA.

Over the course of a week (Mon morning to Fri afternoon), the students will follow six courses taught by distinguished lecturers, with two topics each in theory, data analysis, and instrumentation.

Last but not least, participants get to meet their fellow students from the neighboring institutes and countries, who will be their peers and colleagues throughout (and possibly beyond) their PhD studies working on gravitational wave physics.
Students will have the opportunity to present their own work or research topic to each other in a brief, informal presentation (on Thursday). Thursday evening there will also be a social activity organized.

The target audience of this school is beginning PhD students (first or second year) and advanced Master students. Other young (or less young) researchers wanting to get acquainted with gravitational wave physics are also welcome to apply.

Students from all over the world are welcome to apply, although precedence will be given to students from the EMR region countries (Belgium – Netherlands – Germany)

Participation in the school is free, but participants are responsible for their own accommodation and local expenses. (Accommodations can be booked through the local organizers by indicating this on the application form.) Coffee breaks and lunch are provided for registered participants.

The lecturers and courses for this year are:

• (Theory) Maarten van de Meent (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen): “The Relativistic Two-Body Problem”
• (Theory) Sébastien Clesse (Université Libre Bruxelles): “Cosmology with Gravitational Waves”
• (Data analysis) Gregorio Carullo (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen/University of Birmingham): “Logic with incomplete information: data analysis foundations, and applications to gravitational-waves observations”
• (Data analysis) Henri Inchauspé (Universität Heidelberg / KU Leuven): “Data analysis for LISA”
• (Instrumentation) Joseph Martino (APC): “LISA Constellation Performance and Noise Budget”
• (Instrumentation) Joris van Heijningen (Vrije Universtiteit Amsterdam/Nikhef): “How to create a freely falling test mass?”

Local scientific organizing commitee:

• Thomas Hertog
• Tjonnie Li
• Daniel Mayerson
• Jonathan Menu

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Announcement: the 20th edition of the annual School for Astroparticle Physics, to be held from 7th to 15th October 2024 in Obertrubach-Bärnfels, close to Erlangen, Germany. The school is aimed at advanced graduate and PhD students from all fields of experimental and theoretical astroparticle physics. It will be held in English and is open for international participation.

The school covers topics from astrophysics to particle physics and cosmology.
Lectures are given by key scientists in the field, please find a list of speakers in the attached poster. The school combines education, discussion and contributions by the participants. The participation fee of 500 Euro covers accommodation and meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee breaks). Further information and the registration form can be found on

http://www.astroteilchenschule.nat.fau.de/

We would be delighted to welcome participants from your groups.

The deadline for registration is June 9, 2024, 12pm. If a visa letter is required, prospective participants should contact us as soon as possible, well before the registration deadline.

Nuclear physics and astrophysics are strongly linked through neutron stars, compact objects that represent the densest form of matter in the universe. Neutron stars also have strong synergies to nucleosynthesis and the origin of the heaviest elements in the cosmos. This TALENT school will cover: 1) the equation of state of neutron-rich matter and new constraints inferred from nuclear theory, experiment and observations, 2) core-collapse supernova as the birthplace of neutron stars, and 3) neutron star mergers and gravitational waves to probe the neutron-star interior. In the last years, there has been an enormous progress in theory, experiments, and observation and we aim to bring to the students a broad overview combined with concrete and practical exercises to achieve a comprehensive understanding of neutron stars from the nuclear and astrophysics perspectives.

TOPICS and SCHEDULING
Week one: Nuclear physics of neutron stars

The lectures will explain how to build an equation of state for neutron rich matter that is consistent with known properties of finite nuclei and neutron stars. The students will learn how to build a TOV solver in order to compute the mass-radius relation for a small sample of realistic equations of state. The lectures will conclude with some of the important open questions in the field.

Week two: Birth of neutron stars in core-collapse supernovae.

We will briefly review the stellar evolution of massive stars and discuss in detail their collapse and explosions as supernovae. The students will gain a deep understanding of the explosions and the role of the equation of state on the supernova dynamics, neutrino emission and nucleosynthesis. The seminars will cover neutrino astrophysics and the role of magnetic fields in supernovae.

Week three: Neutron star mergers

Lectures and tutorials will focus on numerical relativity simulations of neutron star mergers where the students will also familiarize themselves with some open source codes used in the community. The lectures will also cover our current understanding of the gravitational and
electromagnetic emission that can be produced by these systems, including r-process/kilonova and short gamma ray bursts.

Organizers
Almudena Arcones (TU Darmstadt)
Bruno Giacomazzo (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
Jorge Piekarewicz (Florida State University)

Registration
Registration available until 10/05/2024.

Application for the ECT* DTP/TALENT 2024 should be made electronically through the webform.

Application should include:

• Curriculum vitae
• Description of academic and scientific achievements
• Short letter expressing the applicant’s personal motivation for participating in the programme

In addition a reference letter from the candidate’s supervisor, addressed to “The Director of ECT*”, should be sent by email to – gazzoli(at)ectstar.eu

Students are welcome to arrive on July, 14th. The checkout time is fixed in August, 3rd.

Collection of applications will end on May 10, when registration closes.
Applicants will be notified of the selection results within the next two weeks.

The selection of participants will be made by a committee composed of the scientific Organizers and the Director of ECT*.

The selection criteria will cover both formal and merit aspects:

• compliance with the submission date
• completeness of the required documentation
• evaluation of merit measured on the basis of the CV, documentented scientiftic achievements and letter of support

In order to promote the participation from under-represented groups in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas ECT* may provide modular scholarships as a contribution to facilitate the attendance of selected candidates.

An additional requirement for this possible subsequent selection will be consideration of participants based in underrepresented countries and with a certifiable lack of access to research funds at affiliating institutions.

PhD students and ECRs based in Trento are allowed to apply for DTP/TALENT programs, but are not eligible for financial support.

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SoUP is an advanced school for PhD students, post-docs and young researchers willing to gain deeper knowledge in topics related to underground physics. The 2024 edition is organized by INFN-Bologna at the Bertinoro University Center (CEUB) in the MiddleAge village of Bertinoro (FC – Italy). Lectures start on Monday 14th October and end at noon on Friday 18th October. The school includes lectures and hands-on sessions on Physics Phenomenology, Detection Techniques, Instrumentation Technologies.

A Speed-talk event and a Poster session are also foreseen.

Here the list of Topics and Lecturers:

• Dark Matter Phenomenology. Lecturer: Marco Cirelli (LPTHE Paris)
• Neutrino Phenomenology. Lecturer: Marco Pallavicini (University & INFN Genova) Axion Phenomenology and Detection. Lecturer: Gianni Carugno (INFN Padova)
• Liquid Scintillators and Water Cherenkov Detectors. Lecturers: Barbara Caccianiga (INFN Milano), Giorgio Riccobene (INFN LNS)
• Noble Liquid Detectors. Lecturer: Giuliana Fiorillo (University & INFN Naples)
• Solid State Detectors. Lecturer: Marco Vignati (University & INFN Roma La Sapienza)
• Statistics (Principles and Hands-on session). Lecturer: Knut Mora (Columbia University)
• Novel Photodetectors. Lecturer: Alberto Gola (FBK Trento)
• Material Screening. Lecturer: Monica Sisti (INFN Milano Bicocca)

Final Registration and Fee Payment are now open:

• deadline for the Early registration fee of 650 euro: June 15
• deadline for the Standard registration fee of 700 euro: July 31.

The fee covers:

admission to all lectures;
lodging in a double room for 5 nights, from Sunday evening to Friday morning (+50 euro for single room, if available);
breakfast, lunch, and two coffee breaks per day (Mon-Fri);
the social dinner;
welcome party;
shuttle from/to the railway station in Forlì.

We invite all Undergrad, PhD students and PostDoc to register asap.

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The aim of the 12th Aegean Summer School is to discuss the recent developments in theory in Gravity and Cosmology and in observations discussing the LIGO, VIRGO, LISA and BINGO experiments.

The 12th Aegean Summer School will take place in the town of Apollonia in the island of Sifnos, in the Cultural Centre “Marianthi Simou” and it is organized and sponsored by the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, the University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, the University of Tuebingen, Germany, the University Nottingham, England, the University Sapienza, Rome, Italy, the University Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile, the University Sao Paulo, Brazil and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).

One of the most successful theory describing cosmic objects, their interactions and their time evolution, is the Einstein’s theory of Gravity. One of the main prediction of the Gravity theory is the existence of Gravitational Waves (GW), the ripples of space-time. The latest GW detections by ground-based interferometers and the discovery of a binary pulsar whose orbital period changes in accordance with the predicted GW emission, verified the predictions of the Einstein’s theory and opened up an intensive activity of understanding all aspects of the GWs and the implications of this discovery to alternative theories of Gravities and their Cosmological implications.

The modified gravity theories can give us important information on the structure and properties of the compact objects predicted by these theories and also the observational signatures which they can introduce. It is expected that future ground and space-borne detectors will improve our perception of gravitational interactions in particular will shed light into the existence of exotic compact objects, like hairy black holes and wormholes. These compact objects provide a window into the microscopic structure of spacetime in Quantum Gravity and the hope is to understand the nature of their interior, potential applications to Quantum Cosmology, and the development of further connections to quantum information and laboratory quantum simulation. The formation of these compact objects may also trigger possible holographic phase transitions to other compact objects.

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