Contact: gravitationalwavesfindelmundo[AT]protonmail.comLocation: La Serena, Chile
We are pleased to announce the 4th Gravitational Wave School in Chile (January 11-15), continuing a proud tradition of training a new generation of latin-american scientists in this growing and exciting research field. This time, the event will be followed by the international conference Gravitational Waves at the Fin del Mundo (January 18-22), inviting world-leading experts in strong-field gravitational physics and astrophysics. Both events will be hosted in La Serena, Chile.
The summer school has the objective to give easy access to graduate students – with priority to South American ones – on the realm of black hole physics. Historically Chile has a great impact in astronomy due to some of the clearest skies in the world. We see this school as an opportunity to train new generations of students from Chile and Latin America in general to gravitational waves astronomy too.
The meeting will focus on recent developments in topics such as black hole perturbation theory, numerical relativity, gravitational waves data analysis, tests of general relativity with current and future gravitational waves detectors, and synergy with EM observations.
4th Gravitational Wave School: Lecturers
– Katerina Chatzioannou (Caltech)
– Alessandra Corsi (Johns Hopkins University)
– Pablo Marchant (Ghent University)
– Thomas Sotiriou (University of Nottingham)
Gravitational Waves at the Fin del Mundo: Invited Speakers
– Max Banados (Catholic University of Chile)
– *Clecio R. Bom (Brazilian Center for Physics Research)
– Vitor Cardoso (Niels Bohr Institute)
– Cecilia Chirenti (University of Maryland)
– Katy Clough (Queen Mary University of London)
– Anuradha Gupta (University of Mississippi)
– Natalia Korsakova (Universite’ Cote d’Azur)
– Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute)
– Caio Macedo (Federal University of Para’)
– *Rafaella Margutti (University of California, Berkeley)
– Nicolas Yunes (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
*To be confirmed
These events will be held at Universidad Central in La Serena, Chile. La Serena is a charming seaside, in a region renowned for its pisco production and tropical papayas. Most importantly, La Serena serves as the gateway to some of the world’s most important astronomical facilities, including Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Cerro Tololo, Gemini, Las Campanas, and La Silla – making it the perfect location to explore the future of gravitational wave astrophysics.
No registration fee is charged but a selected number of applicants will be accepted by the members of the organising committee. PhD students and young researchers are encouraged to apply, especially those from Latin America.
We look forward to seeing you at La Serena next January !
The scientific organising committee
Celeste Artale, Miguel Bezares, Nicola Franchini, Macarena Lagos, Juan Magana, Hanne Van Den Bosch