Theoretical Horizons in Unraveling Relativity, Astrophysics, and Mergers (THURAM)
THURAM is a joint scientific meeting between researchers in astrophysics and gravitational physics from Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) and Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI). This is the second meeting in the series, after the very successful LAUTARO from last year.
When and where
May 7-9, 2025.
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Main Lecture Hall, EX-ISEF building
Viale Francesco Crispi 7, 67100, L’Aquila AQ, Italy
Organizing Committee
Sara Gliorio (chair), Costantino Pacilio, Andrea Maselli, Davide Gerosa.
Participants
- Chiara Anselmo (PhD @ UNIMIB)
- Manuel Arca Sedda (Faculty @ GSSI)
- Biswajit Banerjee (Postdoc @ GSSI)
- Ssorhab Bohranian (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
- Philippa Cole (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
- Andrea Cozzumbo (PhD @ GSSI)
- Sayak Datta (Postdoc @ GSSI)
- Federico De Santi (PhD @ UNIMIB)
- Giulia Fumagalli (PhD @ UNIMIB)
- Davide Gerosa (Faculty @ UNIMIB)
- Sara Gliorio (PhD @ GSSI)
- Annarita Ierardi (PhD @ GSSI)
- Anjali Abirami Kugarajh (PhD @ GSSI)
- Nicholas Loutrel (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
- Andrea Maselli (Faculty @ GSSI)
- Gor Oganesyan (Faculty @ GSSI)
- Caroline Owen (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
- Costantino Pacilio (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
- Lavinia Paiella (PhD @ GSSI)
- Laura Pezzella (PhD @ GSSI)
- Marcelo Rubio (Postdoc @ GSSI)
- Filippo Santoliquido (Postdoc @ GSSI)
- Matteo Schulz (PhD @ GSSI)
- Rodrigo Tenorio (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
- Jacopo Tissino (PhD @ GSSI)
- Pawan Tiwari (PhD @ GSSI)
- Alex Toubiana (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
- Cristiano Ugolini (Postdoc @ GSSI)
Timetable
Session 1 (Wednesday, May 7th, 2.15 pm – 5.30 pm)
- Andrea Maselli, Welcome and introduction (2:15 pm – 2:30 pm)
– EM & Multimessenger (2:30 pm – 3:30 pm) – chair: Philippa Cole
- Gor Oganesyan, Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Multimessenger Era
- Annarita Ierardi, Early X-ray emission of short Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Pawan Tiwari, Multiwavelength study of early GRB afterglow: from X-ray to GeV energy
- Biswajit Banerjee, Gravitational wave pre-alerts from Compact Binary Coalescences and detection of Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Burst prompt emission
– Coffee break (3:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
– Simulation-based inference (4:00 – 4:45 pm) – chair: Sayak Datta
- Chiara Anselmo, Ringdown analysis with simulation-based inference
- Philippa Cole, Simulation-based inference for EMRIs
– Tutorials : Jacopo Tissino (repo, notes) (4:45 pm – 5:30 pm)
Session 2 (Thursday, May 8th, 09:30 am –12:30 pm)
– System and waveform modeling (1) (9:30 am – 10.30 am) – chair: Alexandre Toubiana
- Sara Gliorio, EMRIs beyond vacuum GR
- Sayak Datta, EMRIs around nonrotating black holes with environment
- Caroline Owen, Constraining dark-sector effects using GWs from compact binary inspirals
- Marcelo Rubio, Dark matter spikes with Numerical Relativity
Coffee break (10:30 am – 11:00 am)
– System and waveform modeling (2) (11:00 am – 11.45 am) – chair: Biswajit Banerjee
- Laura Pezzella, Post-ISCO ringdown
- Nicholas Loutrel, Black Hole Ringdown Spirals
- Giulia Fumagalli, Consistent non-adiabatic dynamics of eccentric BBH in post-Newtonian theory
– Discussion (11.45 am – 12.30 pm)
Session 3 (Thursday, May 8th, 2:15 pm - 5:30 pm)
– Population inference (2:15 pm – 3:30 pm) – chair: Marcelo Rubio
- Lavinia Paiella, How to grow heavy black holes
- Alexandre Toubiana, Reconciling PTA and JWST and preparing for LISA with POMPOCO: a Parametrisation Of the Massive black hole POpulation for Comparison to Observations
- Manuel Arca Sedda, Can future GW detectors shed light on the nature of IMBHs?
- Davide Gerosa, We observe compact binaries but are interested in single objects, this is hard.
- Cristiano Ugolini, TBA
– Coffee break (3:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
– Data analysis for 3G detectors (4:00 pm – 4:45 pm) – chair: Costantino Pacilio
- Ssorhab Borhanian, Next-generation detector timing and the importance of LIGO-India
- Jacopo Tissino, Parameter estimation with the Lunar Gravitational Wave Antenna
- Filippo Santoliquido, Parameter estimation of high-redshift sources with ET
– Tutorials: Giulia Fumagalli (link) (4:45 pm – 5:50 pm)
Session 4 (Friday, May 9th, 09:30 am – 12:30 pm)
– Data Analysis challenges (9:30 am – 10:30 am) – chair: Filippo Santoliquido
- Federico De Santi, Machine Learning and SBI techniques for LISA & LVK data
- Rodrigo Tenorio, How to analyze long-duration GW signals efficiently
- Costantino Pacilio, Data-driven reconstruction of beyond-GR effects aided by deep learning
- Andrea Maselli, The prejudice of Love
– Coffee break (10.30 am – 11:00 am)
– Cosmology (11:00 am – 11:45 am) – chair: Caroline Owen
- Andrea Cozzumbo, Calibratable or non-calibratable
- Matteo Schulz, GWxLSS tracers cross-correlation for cosmology
- Anjali Abirami Kugarajh, Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves as a Probe for Beyond-GR Theories
– Tutorials: Rodrigo Tenorio (link) (11.45 am – 12:30 pm)
This workshop is supported by:
- MUR PRIN Grant No. 2022-Z9X4XS
- ERC Starting Grant No. 945155 “GWmining”
- Cariplo Foundation Grant No. 2021-0555
- Gran Sasso Science Institute