Circle University Meeting

7 Jun 2022, 10:10 → 9 Jun 2022, 13:30 Europe/London

Bush House, King's College London

This is a joint event between King's College London, University of Oslo, Aarhus University and the Catholic University of Louvain at the intersection of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.  This is part of the Circle University initiative.

Tuesday, 7 June

1 Welcome and Introduction

2 Simulating Binary Black Holes and massive scalar condensates with Numerical Relativity

Speaker: Giuseppe Ficarra

3 (Novel) Detection of ultra-light dilatons with Cosmological Surveys

Speaker: Louis Hamaide

4 Primordial black hole formation in a matter-dominated early universe using full numerical GR

Speaker: Eloy De Jong

15:20 coffee room SE2.05

5 Dynamical scalarization in binary black hole mergers

Speaker: Matthew Elley

6 CTA

Speaker: Jeff Grube

7 Generation of gravitational waves from freely decaying turbulence

Speaker: Pierre Auclair

17:00 Pub

Wednesday, 8 June

8 TBC

Speaker: Eugene Lim

9 Detectability of the gravitational wave background with magnetar giant flares.

Speaker: Nikolaos Kouvatsos (KCL)

10:30 coffee room SE2.05

10 Stochastic gravitational wave background from cosmic strings

Speaker: Christophe Ringeval (UC Louvain)

11 Searching for ultralight bosons with Supermassive Black Hole Ringdown

Speaker: Adrian Chung (KCL)

12 From freeze-in to a new, exponential production regime of dark matter.

Speaker: Marco hufnagel

12:30 lunch

13 constraints on dark matter from OJ287

Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn

14 Cosmic Ray interactions with Dark Matter

Speaker: Torsten Bringmann

15 Axion MIniclusters

Speaker: Doddy Marsh

16 What will it take to detect the cosmic neutrino background?

Speaker: Nashwan Sabti

15:30 coffee room SE2.05

17 TBC

Speaker: Steen Hannestad

18 Neutrinos from Dark Matter annihilation vs. the DSNB

Speaker: Sandra Robles

19:00 Dinner - Ciao Bella - 86-90 Lamb's Conduit St, London WC1N 3LZ

Thursday, 9 June

10:20 Coffee SE2.05

19 Bubble wall velocities in local thermal equilibrium

Speaker: Wen-Yuan Ai (KCL)

20 Dynamical violation of the null energy condition in finite volumes

Speaker: Drew Backhouse

21 Migdal Effect and Light Dark Matter

Speaker: Chris McCabe

22 From the tabletop to the Big Bang: quantum simulators of false vacuum decay

Speaker: Alex Jenkins (UCL)

12:30 Lunch