Group Meetings
Published by admin on Monday, March 1, 2010
The Gravity Group at UMississippi has a regular weekly scheduled meeting throughout the year to discuss current research progress, topics of interest and new papers. Typically, each week, two members of the group each make a short presentation, either about their current area of research or a paper that has attracted their interest.
For Summer 2025, the Group meets on Wednesdays at 11AM-12PM for a journal club and on Fridays at 11AM-12PM for a research update, both a scheduled ca. half hour presentation and room for free-form updates. The schedule of speakers for this period is:
Group Meeting Schedule(*subject to change)
| Date | Paper Presentation | Research Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| May 14 & May 16 | arXiv discussion | Nathan |
| May 21 & May 23 | Dipika | Purnima |
| May 28 & May 30 | Subhayu | Nauman |
| Jun 4 & Jun 6 | Amitesh | Leo (paper) |
| Jun 11 & Jun 13 | seminar | seminar |
| Jun 18 & Jun 20 | Arindam | James (paper) |
| Jun 25 & Jun 27 | seminar | Subhayu |
| Jul 2 & Jul 4 | Gokul | [4TH OF JULY] |
| Jul 9 & Jul 11 | Nauman | Aniket (paper) |
| Jul 16 & Jul 18 | Nathan | Amitesh |
| Jul 23 & Jul 25 | Purnima | Dipika |
| Jul 30 & Aug 1 | Anuradha | Aniket |
| Aug 6 & Aug 8 | seminar | Arindam |
The group also has a running series where an external speaker is invited to give seminar talk during one of the usual meetings on their area of research or any topic of interest. The seminar then replaces the usual format of the meetings on those days. The list of external speakers will be updated as time goes on.
Tentative List of Seminars(*subject to change)
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11 | David Trestini | Southampton | Modeling gravitational waves from compact binaries in scalar tensor theories within the post-Newtonian approximation |
| Jun 13 | Stephen Green | Nottingham | Neural posterior estimation for gravitational-wave inference |
| Jun 25 | Áron Kovács | QMUL | Well-posed initial value formulation of general effective field theories of gravity |
| Aug 6 | Rico Lo | NBI | TBA |
The next scheduled seminar speaker is David Trestini.
Title: Modeling gravitational waves from compact binaries in scalar tensor theories within the post-Newtonian approximation
Abstract: The post-Newtonian approximation, which assumes that the orbital velocity of a compact binary is small, has been very successful in obtaining analytical waveforms. Here, I will review how to adapt the post-Newtonian framework to the case of a class of massless scalar-tensor theories. I will then present recent results for circular, elliptic and hyperbolic orbits, and discuss the main technical challenges associated to each case.
The archive of previous seminars is here.
Note: Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the meetings have shifted to a hybrid format. This format will be followed until otherwise announced. In case one wishes to participate, please direct your queries to either Dr. Leo Stein <lcstein@olemiss.edu> or Dr. Anuradha Gupta <agupta1@olemiss.edu>.