Name: Nonlinear Black Hole Perturbation Theory: Merging Black Holes, Communities and Ideas
Start: 2025-09-15T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-17T19:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Nottingham

Monday 15 September 2025

09:30

09:30 - 10:00
10:00 Second order self-force
Second order self-force
10:00 - 11:00
Contributions

10:00 Introduction to the second order self-force problem - Zachary Nasipak (University of Southampton)

10:30 The Bondi-Sachs gauge - Andrew Spiers (University of Nottingham)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Second order self-force
Second order self-force
11:30 - 12:00
Contributions

11:30 Source construction - Samuel Upton (University of Southampton)
12:00 Challenges in second order self-force
Challenges in second order self-force
12:00 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Higher order ringdown
Higher order ringdown
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Introduction to the ringdown - Sizheng Ma (Perimeter Institute)

14:30 TBA - Neev Khera (University of Guelph)

15:00 TBA - Patrick Bourg (Radboud University)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Higher order ringdown
Higher order ringdown
16:00 - 16:30
Contributions

16:00 TBA - Stefan Hollands (University of Leipzig)
16:30

16:30 - 17:30
Tuesday 16 September 2025
09:30 From inspiral to ringdown
From inspiral to ringdown
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Numerical relativity's perspective on the ringdown - Lorena Magana Zertuche (Nils Bohr Institute)

10:00 Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms - Lorenzo Küchler

10:30 Point particle ringdown - Devin Becker (MIT)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
11:30 From inspiral to ringdown
From inspiral to ringdown
11:30 - 12:00
Contributions

11:30 TBA - Benjamin Leather (University of Southampton)
12:00 New approaches to merger-ringdown
New approaches to merger-ringdown
12:00 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Other aspects of the ringdown
Other aspects of the ringdown
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Dynamical excitation of the ringdown - Marina De Amicis (Nils Bohr Institute)

14:30 The tail in the ringdown - Marc Casals (Leipzig University and University College Dublin)

15:00 The ringdown at the horizon - Ariadna Ribes Metidieri (Radboud University)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Other aspects of the ringdown
Other aspects of the ringdown
16:00 - 16:30
Contributions

16:00 TBA - Christiana Pantelidou
16:30 Other aspects of the ringdown
Other aspects of the ringdown
16:30 - 17:30
Wednesday 17 September 2025
09:30 Observations and tests of general relativity
Observations and tests of general relativity
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Ringdown and self force beyond general relativity - Thomas Sotiriou (University of Nottingham)

10:00 Ringdown and observations - Gregorio Carullo

10:30 TBA - Swetha Bhagwat (University of Birmingham)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30

11:30 Observations and tests of general relativity
Observations and tests of general relativity
11:30 - 12:30

12:30

12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Codes and tools
Codes and tools
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Hyperboloidal methods - Rodrigo Panosso Macedo (University of Southampton)

14:00 The Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit - Niels Warburton (University College Dublin)
14:30 Codes and tools
Codes and tools
14:30 - 15:30

15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:00 Synergies and collaborations
Synergies and collaborations
16:00 - 17:00