Program

Date: May 15-16, 2026
Venue: University of Copenhagen South Campus, Emil Holms Kanal 6, 2300 Copenhagen S,
Auditorium: 23.0.49 (Please find a map with directions here.)

The scientific program is as follows:

Day 1. May 15
Chair: Cardoso
09:00-09:50 Registration & light breakfast
09:50-10:00 Opening by Cardoso
10:00-10:20 Chan, Ezquiaga, Garcia, Magana Zertuche, Lo, Vujeva. The science of lensed gravitational waves.
10:20-10:40 Ubach. Constraining the environment of binary black hole mergers with self-lensing signatures.
10:40-11:00 Poutanen. X-ray polarimetry as a novel tool to study the geometry of compact objects

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Monica Ferreira
11:30-11:50 Trani. Eccentricity and Post-Newtonian N-body simulations.
11:50-12:10 Lui. Quasi-periodic eruptions and gravitational waves
12:10-12:30 Gliorio. Extreme mass ratio inspirals in dark matter halos: dynamics and distinguishability of halo models.

12:30-13:50 LUNCH

Chair: Samsing
13:50-14:10 Rosswog. Fast ejecta from neutron star mergers.
14:10-14:30 Takátsy. Observability of dynamical tides in merging eccentric neutron star binaries.
14:30-14:50 Andresen. Core-collapse supernova physics and gravitational wave emission.
14:50-15:10 Cocco, Grilli, Orselli. Strong field effects and gravitational waves.

15:10-15:40 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Goobar
15:40-16:00 Tauris. Analysis and simulations of binary black hole merger spins.

16:00-16:30 Group Photo
16:30-18:00 Reception

Day 2. May 16
Chair: Lo
08:30-09:00 Light breakfast
09:00-09:20 De Amicis, Magaña-Zertuche, Redondo-Yuste. The sound of black holes.
09:20-09:40 Pezzella. Environmental imprints on black hole ringdowns.
09:40-10:00 Capuano. Systematic bias in LISA ringdown analysis due to waveform inaccuracy.
10:00-10:20 Katagiri, Minucci, Panosso Macedo, Pereniguez. Strong field gravity: tides, magnetic charges and hyperboloidal framework.

10:20-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Magana Zertuche
11:00-11:20 Di Vecchia. Universal resummed soft part of the waveform using Weinberg 1965 and the worldline formalism.
11:20-11:40 Faggioli. Gravitational waves by critical plunging geodesics.
11:40-12:00 Zosso. A general metric theory perspective on gravitational memory and the non-linearity of gravity.
12:00-12:20 Polzik. Overcoming the Standard Quantum Limit in GWDs by Entanglement with a Negative Mass Oscillator.

12:20-13:30 LUNCH

Chair: Watson
13:30-13:50 Brandenburg. Relic gravitational waves: learning about the source.
13:50-14:10 Bringmann. First-order phase transitions and stochastic gravitational wave background.
14:10-14:30 Iarygina. Gravitational waves from axions and gauge fields.
14:30-14:50 Boskovic. Signatures of ultralight bosons in the orbital evolution of binary black holes.
14:50-15:10 Brown. Tidal physics and tests of the gravitational interaction.

15:10-15:40 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: Platania
15:40-16:00 Majumdar. How gravitational wave data from binary black hole merger may constrain black hole entropy.
16:00-16:20 Sarnobat. Gravitational Waves from a bounded source: Non-perturbative analytical results for the whole vacuum.
16:20-16:40 Culetu. Properties of a star with negative pressure and constant energy density.
16:40 CLOSING