The school will cover the emerging field of gravitational and multi-messenger astronomy,  following the discovery of GW150914 and GW170817. Within a few years, with the expected improvement of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors, we can expect many other detections, which will open up a new window on astrophysical objects such as black holes, binary systems of stars neutrons or even totally unexpected objects.

This very wide area involves a large number of theoretical, experimental and information systems: from modeling and simulation of gravitational systems to control of a satellite in terrestrial orbit, through design and operation of laser interferometers of  kilometric size, quantum optics, data analysis …

The objective of this summer school is to provide a large number of students and post-docs with a solid corpus in most aspects of the field, to help and strengthen the collaboration between the different communities.

Topics and Invited speakers

• • General Relativity and gravitational waves (Pr. Thomas Moore, Pomona College)
  • Black Hole Physics (Dr. E. Gourgoulhon, Observatoire de Paris)
  • Gravitational-wave detection: early history and fundamentals (Pr. Peter Saulson, Syracuse University)
  • Advanced quantum techniques and 3rd-Generation Interferometers (Pr. S. Hild, Glasgow University)
  • GW data analysis: techniques and results (Pr. Alan Weinstein, Caltech)
  • Numerical Relativity: introduction, black holes (Pr. Harald Pfeiffer, Albert Einstein Institut Potsdam)
  • Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves (Pr. Ilya Mandel, University of Birmingham)
  • Testing General Relativity (Pr. Clifford Will, University of Florida)
  • Pulsar Timing (Pr. Neil Cornish, Montana State University)
  • Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (Pr. Joseph Romano, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
  • Cosmological Sources of Gravitational Waves (Pr. Vuk Mandic, University of Minnesota)
  • Electromagnetic Follow-Up: Techniques and results (Pr. Samaya Nissanke, Radboud University)
  • LISA Science (Dr. Alberto Sesana, University of Birmingham)
  • Numerical Relativity: Binaries With Neutron Stars (S. Bernuzzi, Jena University)
  • Binary Systems: Parameter Estimation (Dr. John Veitch, University of Glasgow)
  • GW and Binary Systems: Formation and Astrophysics (Pr. Chris Belczynski, Warsaw University)
  • Continuous wave GW searches (Dr. Maria Alessandra Papa, Albert Einstein Institut Hannover)
  • Gravitational wave burst searches (Dr. Marie-Anne Bizouard, Université Paris-Sud)
  • The LISA detector (Dr. Martin Hewitson, Albert Einstein Institut Hannover)

Thomas Moore: General relativity and gravitational waves

Eric Gourgoulhon: Black Hole Physics

Peter Saulson: Early history and fundamentals of gravitational-wave detection
Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5

Stefan Hild: Advanced quantum technique and 3rd-generation interferometers
Slides
Link to GWINC

Alan Weinstein: Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Mergers – Data Analysis Techniques
Ilya Mandel: Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves – Review article
Marie-Anne Bizouard: Gravitational wave burst searches – Slides

H. Pfeiffer: Numerical Relativity – Introduction and Black Holes – Slides – Exercises
C. Belczynski: GW and Binary Systems – Formation and Astrophysics
G. Wiktorowicz: GW and Binary Systems – Formation and Astrophysics (hands-on session)
J. Veitch: Binary Systems, Parameter Estimation
S. Bernuzzi: Numerical Relativity – Binaries With Neutron Stars – References and exercices
C. Will: Testing General Relativity – Slides
Joe Romano: Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background – Seminar on Escher
V. Mandic: Cosmological Sources of Gravitational Waves – Notes – Slides 

N. Cornish: Pulsar Timing
S. Nissanke: Electromagnetic Follow-Up, Techniques and results
A. Sesana: LISA Science – Slides 1 – Slides 2
M A Papa: Continuous wave GW searches
M Hewitson: The LISA detector – Slides 1 – Slides 2
A Bertoldi: Atom interferometers as GW detectors
 

ORGANIZERS

For information, please contact the organizers.

• Pierre-François Cohadon, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris
• Bruce Allen, Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover
• Marie-Anne Bizouard, Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay
• Nelson Christensen, ARTEMIS, Nice

FEES

Fees will be 1800 euros.These include  registration fees, housing, breakfasts, lunchs and dinners for the whole 4 weeks, plus the lecture notes volume from Oxford UP.

DEADLINE

We will accept applications until the school is full. We expect to give a feedback to participant acceptance early May 2018. A waiting list will be established.

FACILITIES