Workshop

10 May, 2027 - 18 Jun, 2027

Synergies for Black-Hole Binaries: from perturbative techniques to strong-field gravity

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Abstract

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors -- from LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA upgrades to the Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer and LISA -- will probe black-hole binaries with unprecedented precision and across new regions of parameter space. Extracting the full physics of these signals requires waveform models that remain accurate from the weak-field inspiral to the strongly nonlinear merger and ringdown. Recent advances across several communities -- PM and PN methods, GSF theory, EOB theory and NR -- have revealed powerful but still largely independent tools for tackling different regimes of the two-body problem.

This program aims to forge new synergies among these approaches and to develop resummation and matching strategies that coherently bring perturbative expansions into the strong-field regime. Emphasis will be placed on nonlinear phenomena, high-order perturbative information, and the unification of PM, PN, GSF and NR insights into robust frameworks for modeling black-hole binaries, whether through the lens of EOB or novel connections between these approaches. By bringing together leading experts and emerging researchers, the program will accelerate the development of next-generation analytical and semi-analytical models commensurate with the sensitivity of future detectors, ultimately advancing our understanding of the relativistic two-body problem and gravitational-wave science.

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Organizers

Béatrice Bonga (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
Rossella Gamba (University of California Berkeley, United States of America)
Riccardo Gonzo (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Chris Kavanagh (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Jan Plefka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Adam Pound (Univ. of Southampton, United Kingdom)
Piero Rettegno (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Local organizers

Riccardo Gonzo

Contact

synergies-for-black-hole-binaries@lists.ggi.infn.it

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Poster session

The participants who would like to present a poster are kindly invited to send an email with the title and a short abstract to alice.bernamonti@unifuit before May 22, specifying for which week of the workshop. Since a limited number of panels is available, the organizers will select the posters shortly after the deadline.

week 3

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
11:30 - 12:30 Tomasevic Newenfeld Collin-Ellerin Caceres
13:00 - 14:30 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Sorce Emparan
  • Elena Caceres: 'On Sparse SYK, wormholes, and chaos"
  • Sean Colin-Ellerin: "Bootstrapping wuantum extremal surfaces
  • Roberto Emparan: "Black tsunamis and naked singularities in AdS'
  • Dominik Neuenfeld: "Bounds on gravitational brane couplings and tomography in AdS3 black hole microstates"
  • Jonathan Sorce: "Bulk causality from boundary entanglement: the connected wedge theorem revisited"
  • Marija Tomasevic: 'ds through holography

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