Programme

Time Theme Speaker
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-10:35 Introduction Organisers
10:35-11:00 Ground-based interferometric detector overview Prof. Alberto Vecchio (University of Birmingham)
Title: TBC
11:00-11:10 Questions & discussion
11:10-11:30 Detecting Gravitational Waves using a Pulsar Timing Array Dr Lindley Lentati (University of Cambridge)
11:30-11:40 Questions & discussion
11:40-12:00 Title: Detecting Primordial Gravitational Waves via the Cosmic Microwave Background Dr Steven Gratton (University of Cambridge)
12:00-12:05 Questions & discussion
12:05-12:25 Title: Gravitational wave data analysis in a signal rich environment Dr Stas Babak (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm)
12:25-12:35 Questions & discussion
12:35-12:50 Title: Compressed likelihood evaluations for gravitational-wave parameter estimation Dr Priscilla Canizares (University of Cambridge)
12:50-13:00 Questions & discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch & posters
14:00-14:30 Title: A modern inference toolbox: towards fast, scalable Bayes Dr Ewan Cameron (University of Oxford)
14:30-14:40 Questions & discussion
14:40-15:00 Title: Multi-messenger astronomy Dr Ed Daw (University of Sheffield)
15:00-15:05 Questions & discussion
15:05-15:15 Title: Claiming the detection of transient gravitational waves Dr Chris Messenger (University of Glasgow)
15:15-15:25 Questions & discussion
15:25-15:30 Closing comments Organisers
15:30-16:00 Tea at the Geographical Society