Thursday 27th November 2025
CamGW is a collaborative initiative bringing together researchers from various departments at the University of Cambridge working on gravitational-wave science.
Following on from our successful first event in March 2025, this is the next in a planned series of regular meetings bringing together GW researchers from across Cambridge. We are thrilled to be joined by Professor Stephen Fairhurst (Cardiff University), Spokesperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, who will give a keynote talk.
Organised by the CamGW team: James Alvey (jbga2), Alex Jenkins (acj46), Nikhil Sarin (ns2043)
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SCHEDULE
09.30–09.45: Welcome
Session 1: GW Astrophysics (chair: JA)
09.45–10.10: Avishai Gilkis (IoA), “Gravitational wave sources from binary stellar evolution channels”
10.10–10.35: Antti Rantala (KICC/IoA), “Gravitational waves and massive black hole seeds from early clustered star formation”
10.35–11.00: David Yallup (KICC/IoA), “Towards real time GW inference”
11.00–11.30: Coffee
Session 2: Keynote Talk and Discussion Session (chair: AJ)
11.30–12.30: Keynote Talk by Prof Stephen Fairhurst (Cardiff University)
12.30–13.00: Discussion session
13.00–13.15: CamGW updates and planning
13.15–14.15: Lunch
Session 3: GW Observations and Inference (chair: NS)
14.15–14.40: Alexander van Engelen (Arizona State University), “Time-Dependent Deflection Reconstruction: A New Technique to Search for Gravitational Waves with the Cosmic Microwave Background”
14.40–15.05: Richard Dyer (IoA), “Quasinormal modes from numerical relativity with Bayesian inference”
15.05–15.30: Metha Prathaban (KICC/Cavendish), “Gravitational-Wave Inference at GPU Speed: Scaling to Next-Generation Signals”
15.30–16.00: Coffee
Session 4: GW Cosmology and Fundamental Physics (chair: AJ)
16.00–16.25: Lennard Dufner (DAMTP), “An Open System Approach to Gravitational Waves”
16.25–16.50: Gonzalo Villa (DAMTP), “Cosmic strings in large volume compactifications”
16.50–17.15: Gareth Marks (DAMTP), “Gravitational Waves from Black Hole-Boson Star Binaries”
