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Ten Years to LISA: New Challenges and Opportunities in Multimessenger/Multiband Science, April 1-3, 2025, hybrid

The conference website for Ten Years to LISA: New Challenges and Opportunities in Multimessenger/Multiband Science is now online.
This is a hybrid meeting, meaning participation can be virtual or in-Person. Dates: April 1-3, 2025. In-Person Location: von Karman Auditorium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

Conference Overview: Motivation and Format

For the purpose of this Overview, “multimessenger astronomy” stands for “multimessenger including gravitational waves”, and “multiband” means “multiple gravitational-wave bands”. Multimessenger astronomy, in this sense, began with a bang with the LIGO-Virgo detection of GWs from the merger of two neutron stars, GW170817, an event that was soon observed in most EM bands. While there was an expectation in the field that NS mergers powered some short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) and models of their subsequent radioactive decay (kilonova) existed, confirmation of these theories occurred only from GW170817. Details of these events, like the delay between the GW and GRB signals and the GRB strength, however, led to new insights into their pre-merger environments and the dependence on viewing angle of the jet’s appearance.

Astrophysicists’ predictions of the EM signals that will accompany LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) events may be even less advanced than sGRB models prior to GW170817 and share a lack of confirming evidence. This conference is premised on the viewpoint that this relative ignorance represents an opportunity, or, really, several opportunities. There is important work to be done i) using past and upcoming observations (both EM and GW) to constrain event rates and search for the signatures of LISA-type events before LISA turns on; and ii) using astrophysical models to predict the multimessenger and multiband signals that will accompany LISA signals.

We have about ten years to work on this before LISA and Nature start to give us some of the answers. It is our belief that such work done before LISA starts taking data will almost surely help us maximize the science we extract. (And we expect that will be true even if most of our predictions are not ultimately borne out by observations.)

With the above as motivation, this Conference will give overviews of the sorts of EM & GW observations that we expect to be made over the next 10+ years and how they relate to LISA. And it will suggest LISA multimessenger/multiband science investigations that could be started now. Our main goal is to help stimulate new, important work in these areas.

The format for the conference is as follows. We have divided our subject into eight topics. Over the course of the three-day conference, there will be eight sessions: one devoted to each topic. For each session, we have found a topical expert who has agreed to chair that session. The Session Chairs will build their sessions using some combination of invited talks and talks contributed via this website. It will be up to each Session Chair to construct their session as they think best.

This a hybrid conference, meaning participation can be either in-person or online. There is zero registration fee for either in-person or remote attendance. However, we recommend that you attend in person, if you can, to benefit from the side discussions that are important part of any conference. We plan to limit talks to about six hours per day, to leave plenty of time for such side discussions.

Important Dates:

  • Monday, December 23, 2025 – Registration open
  • Tuesday, February 4, 2025 – Deadline for abstract submission for presentations and posters
  • Monday, February 24, 2025 – Registration closes for attendees from these Designated Countries who are attending in person
  • Monday, March 10, 2025 – Registration closes
  • Friday, March 28, 2025 – Deadline for submission of talks

Please register here.

Co-Organizers:

  • Katerina Chatziioannou, California Institute of Technology
  • Curt Cutler, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • Michele Vallisneri, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

For any questions please contact multilisa_oc(at)jpl.nasa.gov.

Workshop Sessions

  1. EM Telescopes and Observations – From now to 2040
  2. Gravitational-Wave Telescopes and Observations – From now to 2040
  3. Galactic Binaries
  4. Joint LISA + Ground-Based Observations of Stellar-Mass Binaries
  5. EM Counterparts to GW Signals from MBHBs
  6. The Population of LISA MBHBs: What we have learned from simulations
  7. The Population of LISA MBHBs: Inference from Current & Future Observations
  8. EMRIs

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Workshop Agenda

Workshop Agenda


Workshop Presentations

Day 1 Presentations

Current ground based detectors and their likely evolution to 2040

PTAs – evolution of the network and its sensitivity

How Can the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) Support LISA?

The value of Direct Acceleration Measurements

Day 2 Presentations

Insights and Predictions from GRMHD Simulations of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers: Shaping Future Observational Strategies

The status of black hole binary waveform modeling and the requirements for LISA

Stars or gas? Constraining the hardening processes of massive black-hole binaries with LISA

Tracking on-the-fly massive black hole binary evolution and coalescence in galaxy simulations: RAMCOAL

A Self-Consistent Data-Driven Approach to Modeling Massive Galaxies, Black Hole Growth and Merger Rates

Understanding Massive Black Hole Seed Mergers: Insights from the MAGICS Simulations and Implications for LISA Observations

Bringing LISA’s Massive Black Hole Binaries to Light: From Theory to Observations

Electromagnetic Predictions of Accreting Black Hole Binary Systems from GRMHD Simulations

Electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole mergers

Multimessenger prospects for massive black hole binaries in LISA

Identifying GW-driven massive black hole binaries in LSST using Bayesian Analysis

Day 3 Presentations

The diverse outcomes of massive white dwarf binary mergers

Milky Way structure and morphology from its gravitational wave signal

Formation of Black Hole–White Dwarf X-ray Binaries in Globular Clusters

Zwicky Transient Search for Ultra-compact Galactic Binaries

Orbital evolution of ultracompact binaries driven by gravitational waves and mass transfer

The Galactic center with GRAVITY(+) and the ELT: what can we learn before LISA flies?

SgrA∗ spin and mass estimates through the detection of an extremely large mass-ratio inspiral

Small-mass-ratio binary modeling: Making EMRI waveforms for LISA great again!

Extracting EMRIs in the LISA Global Fit

Stellar-Mass Binaries in LISA: Prospects and Data Analysis Challenges

LISA’s role in understanding how stellar-mass binary black holes form

LISA+3G coherent multiband parameter estimation of BBHs using PyCBC

SFT: a scalable data-analysis framework for long-duration gravitational-wave signals

A Sea of Black Holes: Characterizing the LISA Signature for Stellar-Origin Black Hole Binaries

LISA double white dwarf binaries as Galactic accelerometers

LVK Collaboration Meeting, March 24-27 2025, Melbourne

We are delighted to host the 2025 March LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration Meeting in Melbourne, Australia, from March 24th – 27th at the Pullman Melbourne Albert Park Hotel. This year’s meeting will be hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).

Why Melbourne?
Melbourne is a vibrant, multicultural city known for its rich arts scene, fantastic food, and innovative research institutions. As Australia’s scientific hub, Melbourne is the perfect backdrop for the LVK Collaboration Meeting, offering participants both professional and cultural experiences. The Pullman Melbourne Albert Park Hotel offers a picturesque location near the scenic Albert Park Lake, the venue offers state-of-the-art conference facilities, accommodating both large plenary sessions and smaller breakout discussions

Satellite Meetings:
Following the main conference, satellite meetings will be held on Friday the 28th of March, providing additional opportunities for in-depth workshops and discussions.

Whether you’re joining in person or online, we look forward to an engaging and inspiring collaboration!

Venue: Pullman Melbourne Albert Park Dates: March 24th-27th, 2025 (Satellite workshops on the 28th)

Meeting Website

11th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting, April 11-12, 2025 at University of Mississippi

The GCGM returns to the University of Mississippi! The 11th Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting will be held at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS, on April 11 and 12, 2025. In keeping with its tradition, this will be an open, relaxed, and informal conference.

We are inviting researchers and students interested in all areas of gravitational physics: classical and quantum gravity, general relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, quantum cosmology, gravitational waves, and experimental gravity. Because this is a regional meeting, many attendees will be from the southeastern United States, but all are welcome.

Talks

Following the usual tradition all participants, and especially postdocs and graduate students, are encouraged to contribute short, introductory talks on their current research, with the aim of fostering communication and understanding among gravitational physicists with different backgrounds. A prize (sponsored by the APS Division of Gravitational Physics) will be awarded for the best talk given by a student at the meeting.
Deadlines
Prospective speakers should register by March 01 to receive full consideration. Late applicants will be considered at the discretion of the organizers. See the website for details.

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28th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity, July 21-25, 2025 in Southampton

The 28th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity will be hosted by the Gravitational Waves Group at the University of Southampton from 21st - 25th July 2025.

The conference will be hosted at the Centenary Building (Building 100) on the University of Southampton’s Highfield Campus. The five days will be filled with contributed talks and extensive discussion sessions.

The conference will be held primarily as an in-person event with live remote participation via Zoom.

There is no registration fee. The registration page is here. All participants are expected to adhere to the Capra Code of Conduct.

Organising committee: Adam Pound, Jonathan Thompson, Zachary Nasipak, Leor Barack, Alexander Grant, Lorenzo Kuchler, Jack Lewis, Ayush Roy, David Trestini, Sam Upton, Aditya Vaswani

Please contact capra28(at)caprameeting.org for any queries.

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RAS specialist discussion meeting: “Gravitational wave analysis in the era of machine learning”, January 10th 2025

Invitation to the RAS specialist discussion meeting on “Gravitational wave analysis in the era of machine learning”. The meeting will take place at the Geological Society in London on the 10th of January.

You can find the event page with more information here: https://ras.ac.uk/events-and-meetings/ras-meetings/gravitational-wave-analysis-era-machine-learning.

The meeting will be based on panel-led discussions focusing on the use of machine learning in gravitational wave science. We will focus on topics such as the interpretability of ML-derived results, the robustness of ML models to uncertainties, and the integration of ML algorithms into existing and future GW search and analysis pipelines.

If you would like to present a poster or sparkler talk, please submit your abstract in the form below. You can also use the form to register your interest in the meeting and to receive updates.

Expression of interest form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZJPvdWzLABkpXHv0VcUyr5XzNUhg_OV4P0j-vBXKU-8R3sA/viewform

Registration for the meeting will be via the RAS meeting event page and will open in mid-December.

15th Central European Relativity Seminar, January 22-24, 2025, Nijmegen

The Nijmegen meeting will be the 15th seminar of a series initiated at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna in 2011. This series of seminars is designed to provide a forum for younger researchers to present their work, and to expand their research horizons, in all topics of research in general relativity. While the main geographical basin of attraction is Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Germany, we welcome researchers from all countries.

Schedule, abstracts and participants
The programme will include keynote lectures by Heino Falcke (Radboud University), Christoph Kehle (MIT), and Erik Verlinde* (Amsterdam). *To be confirmed.

Local information
The meeting will take place at the Faculty of Science of the Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6545 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Meeting Website

3rd Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting: November 12-15, 2024, Warsaw

The 3rd Einstein Telescope Annual Meeting presents an opportunity to discuss key aspects of the ET collaboration and design. 
Hosted by the University of Warsaw, the event will be held at the ADN Conference Center, located in the heart of the Polish capital

The meeting is open to all members of the ET collaboration, beginning on the morning of Tuesday, November 12, and concluding on Thursday, November 14, in the evening.

In addition to the main meeting from November 12-14 (Tuesday – Thursday), several satellite meetings are planned for November 15 (Friday):

  • ET-PP WP2/WP3 Joint Workshop
  • Materials for Advanced Detectors 2024 (MAD24)
  • Laser Noise Requirements for ET

Participants can join all sessions online via Zoom. Zoom links will be provided as attachments in the session timetable.

Social events:

  • Early Career Researchers Meeting: November 12
  • Conference Dinner: November 13

Local Organizing Committee:

  • Tomasz Bulik (OA, University of Warsaw)
  • Dorota Rosińska (OA, University of Warsaw)
  • Paweł Ciecieląg (CAMK, PAN)
  • Mariusz Suchenek (CAMK, PAN and OA, University of Warsaw)
  • Yuliya Hoika (OA, University of Warsaw)

Meeting Website

CoCoNuT Meeting, December 11-13, 2024 in Valencia

The CoCoNuT Meeting is a series of workshops aiming at fostering collaboration among relativistic astrophysicsgroups, specially within Europe. The series has been taking place yearly since 2009 and this year is hosted by the University of Valencia. 

This edition will be focused on gravitational waves, in particular in the modelling and detection of compact objects with matter, such as binary neutron stars, supernovae and neutron stars. The different topics will be introduced by the invited speakers, followed by contributed talks.

The meeting will take place at the ADEIT, the University-Enterprise Foundation of the University of Valencia.

About Registration

The registration period for the CoCoNuT Meeting 2024 is from September 5th to November 25th and must be done through the black button “ENROLL”

Participation is not guaranteed until full payment of the registration fee is received. The registration cost meeting is 50€. It includes the access to all sessions, all coffee breaks and lunches, as well as the conference dinner on Thursday and certificate of participation issued online. If you need an invoice, you can ask it during the registration process.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission period: Until October 31st
Registration period: Until November 25th
CoCoNuT Meeting 2024: December 11th-13th

Invited speakers
Elena Cuoco, EGO-European Gravitational Observatory
Pia Jakobus, University of Hamburg
Nikolaos Stergioulas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Meeting Website

RENATA & 21th MultiDark joint Meeting, October 8-11, 2024 in Santander

MultiDark2024 is the annual meeting of the Spanish network, Multidark, funded by the Agencia Estatal Española del Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (RED2022-134411-T). This time will be joint with a special meeting of RENATA (Red Nacional de astroparticulas ) in order to prepare the update on the European Strategy of Particle Physics. 

Scientific Programme
This is a special meeting joint with the RENATA network to prepare the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. In this meeting, the first two days will be dedicated to the MultiDark/RENATA update of the European Strategy, with review talks on the different topics covered by RENATA and a discussion session at the end of the second day.

The next two days will be dedicated to report recent activities of the different groups composing the current MultiDark network (see https://projects.ift.uam-csic.es/multidark_new/working_groups/ for information about the groups).

All talks will be plenary, lasting 15-20 minutes each, with time for questions and discussions. We are still preparing a final version of the program but when ready it will appear here.

MultiDark meetings are crucial for sharing new ideas, advances, and state-of-the-art knowledge in astroparticle physics. The scientific program will cover a range of topics in DM research, showcasing the latest results from the different participating groups, which intersect particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and instrumentation.

Meeting Website

LISA-Spain Meeting 2024, October 15-16 in Barcelona

The Institute of Space Sciences is organising the LISA-Spain Meeting 2024 at the campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, on October 15-16, 2024.

The LISA mission has been adopted in January 2024 and has just entered the implementation phase. There are many challenges ahead of us before the mission launch in 2035.

The main goal of the meeting is to bring together scientists interesting in participating the Spanish contribution to LISA, from the instrument/experiments to the Science exploitation. Everyone interested is invited to attend and contribute. The Registration website is here:

Meeting Website