Seminars take place Thursdays 14:00-15:00, in room 54/10037 (semester 1) and 54/5027 (semester 2), unless otherwise noted.听
2 October 2025: Introduction
9 October 2025: Ben Leather (九色视频)
Numerical approaches to first- and second-order self-force calculations
16 October 2025:听Christian Chapman-Bird听(Birmingham)
The modelling, analysis and astrophysics of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals in the LISA band
22 October 2025:听Duncan Haldane听(Princeton) [14:30 Turner Sims]
23 October 2025:听Eliot Finch听(Caltech)
Ringdown Overtones and Black-hole Spectroscopy
30 October 2025:听Rita Teixeira da Costa (University of Cambridge)
The Maxwell equations on the full Kerr black hole family
6 November 2025: Tom Cadogan (九色视频)
Self-Gravitating Anisotropic Fluids
13 November 2025:听Alexis Reboul-Salze (AEI Potsdam)
Large-scale magnetic field amplification in binary neutron star mergers
20 November 2025:听Francisco Duque (AEI Potsdam)
Towards relativistic modelling of EMRIs in accretion discs
27 November 2025: Paolo Arnaudo (九色视频) [NOTE UNUSUAL ROOM: 58/1039]
Complete mode decomposition for the black hole Green鈥檚 function
4 December 2025:听Nils Vu听(Caltech)听[NOTE UNUSUAL ROOM: 58/1039]
Self-force calculations with Numerical Relativity methods
10 December 2025:听听Mike Seymour听(Manchester)听听[STAG Colloquium, 13:30, room 46/2005 (L/T C)]听
The 40 year road to precision calculations for the LHC
11 December 2025:听Rodrigo Vicente (GRAPPA, Amsterdam)听[NOTE UNUSUAL ROOM: 58/1039]
How to learn about dark matter from its effect on standard gravitational waves
Christmas Break
8 January 2026:听Gregorio Carullo (Birmingham)
Numerically solved, yet understood? Recent advancements in the two-body problem
Exam Period
29 January 2026:听Lami Suleiman (DESY, Zeuthen)
Probing dense matter with multi-messenger astronomy
5 February 2026: Aleksi Kurkela (Stavanger)
Quarks, gluons, and cores of neutron stars听
12 February 2026:听Ivan Markin听(Potsdam)
Black hole-neutron star mergers with equal and near-equal mass ratios
19 February 2026:听Elliot Marshall [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND ROOM: 13:00, 58/1007]
Singularities, Fluids, and the BKL Conjecture
19 February 2026: Mark Alford (St Louis) [STAG Colloquium, 15:00, room 46/2005 (L/T C) ]
Quark matter: the high-density frontier
26 February 2026:听Suvendu Giri (Uppsala)
A 鈥渄ictionary鈥 to test GR with GW: from observations to theory
5 March 2026:听Alejandro Torres-Forn茅 (Valencia)
On the nature of normal modes of oscillation of proto-neutron stars
12 March 2026:听Swetha Bhagwat (Birmingham)
Ringdown Amplitudes in Precessing Binary Black Hole Mergers
19 March 2026: Jan-Erik Christian (Hamburg)
Impossible Twin Stars - How can we see phase transitions?
Easter Break
23 April 2026:听Lorenzo Gavassino (Cambridge)
30 April 2026:听Jos茅 Luis Hern谩ndez (Barcelona)
Bulk-viscous dissipation in neutron star binary mergers
5 May 2026:听Sanika Khadkikar (Pennsylvania State)听[NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND ROOM 54/4001]
7 May 2026:听Soheb Mandhai (Manchester)
Evolving binary systems harmoniously with OCARINA
14 May 2026: Metha Prathaban (Cambridge)
Next-Generation GW Inference: Traditional Bayesian Methods in an AI Era
Jonathan Thompson j.e.thompson@soton.ac.uk
Violetta Sagun听V.Sagun@soton.ac.uk
Lorenzo Maximilian K眉chler L.M.Kuchler@soton.ac.uk