Numerical Relativity and Fundamental Fields
IFPU
7-11 April 2025
In our current booming era of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy, numerical relativity (NR) is an essential tool that allows us to model gravitational phenomena in the strong-field regime. The evolution of fundamental scalar or vector fields in NR is a powerful way to investigate physics beyond our current model of the Universe: General Relativity plus the Standard Model. The primary aim of this workshop will be to catalyse scientific discussion on this topic between members of the numerical relativity community and members of IFPU, with the potential to generate new scientific ideas and projects of key importance to current and future GW experiments. Topics covered will include exotic compact objects, dark matter and topological defects, modified gravity, extreme spacetimes, neutron stars and inflation.
Meeting website: https://sites.google.com/view/numericalrelativity
Organisers:
- Amelia Drew (IFPU/ICTP)
- Katy Clough (Queen Mary University of London)
- Daniela Cors (University of Cambridge)
Participants:
- Tamara Evstafyeva (Perimeter Institute)
- William Cook Friedrich-Schiller (University Jena)
- Ulrich Sperhake (University of Cambridge)
- Llibert Aresté Saló Katholieke (Universiteit Leuven)
- Aron Kovacs Queen Mary (University of London)
- Matthew Elley (University of the Basque Country)
- Shrobana Ghosh (Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam)
- Josu Aurrekoetxea (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Tamanna Jain (Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure/University of Cambridge)
- Dina Traykova (Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam)
- Robin Croft (Sapienza University of Rome)
- Paul Shellard (University of Cambridge)
- Eugene Lim (King’s College London)
- Daniela Cors (University of Cambridge)
- Katy Clough (Queen Mary University of London)
- Ericka Florio (University of Cambridge)
- Gareth Marks (University of Cambridge)
- Seppe Staelens (University of Cambridge)
- Cheng Cheng King’s (College London)
- Mads Soerensen Friedrich-Schiller (University Jena)
- Areef Waeming (Queen Mary University of London)
- Panagiotis Giannadakis (King’s College London)