LATAM SEMINAR JULY 16

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Dear Communities,


We invite you to the Latin American Gravitational Waves Seminar on Thursday, July 16, at 2:00 PM (Mexico City time), online.

The session will feature two 20-minute seminars (two speakers), each followed by a brief announcement discussion.

The meeting agenda is available here. You are welcome to add your announcements.


Speaker 1: Pablo Andrés Lizardo Romo, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México

Title: On phenomenological parametrizations for the luminosity distance of gravitational waves

Abstract: tba


Speaker 2: Alexander Bonilla Rivera,

Title: Fundamental physics with gravitational waves

Abstract: The detection of the high-frequency events GW150914 and GW170817 by the LIGO collaboration, and the strong evidence for the low-frequency stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) by the NANOGrav and IPTA collaborations, laid the observational foundation for the new multi-messenger astronomy, but not without overcoming immense technological challenges. Regarding the LIGO-VIRGO events, there was initially a high degree of certainty that we were witnessing the merger of a binary system of compact objects (BH-BH/NS-NS). With the first event, we were able to obtain an estimate of the Hubble H0 parameter, and with the second, an estimate of the gravitational-wave velocity, among other important results. However, the NANOGrav results initially suggested that the strong evidence was due to a population of supermassive black hole (SMBH) mergers with low Bayes factor, as opposed to signals primarily from the early universe with higher Bayes factor, which is quite intriguing. In this talk, I will provide an introduction to the fundamental physics that can be explored with current and future detector data such as LISA, ET, and ANION, including the variation of fundamental constants, Lorentz invariance, the mass of the graviton, light Bosons (Gravitational Atoms), and other exotic topics. Finally, we will extend our study to the ultra-high frequency (UHF) gravitational wave spectrum, including data analysis with Machine Learning.


Remote access via Zoom:


https://udg-mx.zoom.us/j/9986411861


Meeting ID: 9986411861

Password: 054694


We encourage researchers and students working on gravitational waves to subscribe to seminars for the Latin American GW community: send an email to gw-latam+u...@googlegroups.com



If you would like to present a seminar, please fill out the following spreadsheetSeminars  Annual program


Available dates:

August 13, 

September 17,

October 15.


Recording seminars are in: youtube

Kind regards,


The organizing committee.


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