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, 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)
Alice Spadaro (PhD @ UNIMIB)
Rodrigo Tenorio (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
Jacopo Tissino (PhD @ GSSI)
Pawan Tiwari (PhD @ GSSI)
Alex Toubiana (Postdoc @ UNIMIB)
Timetable
SESSION 1 (Wednesday, May 7th, 2.15 pm – 5.30 pm) Chairs:
- Andrea Maselli + Davide Gerosa, Welcome and introduction (2:15 pm 2:30 pm)
– EM & Multimessenger (2:30 pm – 3:30 pm)
- Pawan Tiwari, Multi-messenger Study of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Annarita Ierardi, Short Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Multimessenger Era
- Biswajit Banerjee, TBA
- Gor Oganesyan, GN = 6674 10^-14
– Coffee break (3:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
– Simulation-based inference (4:00 – 4:45 pm)
- Alice Spadaro, DINGO in the sky with LISA: fast parameter estimation of massive BH binaries
- Chiara Anselmo, TBA
- Philippa Cole, Simulation-based inference for EMRIs
– Tutorials (4:45 pm – 5:30 pm)
SESSION 2 (Thursday, May 8th, 09:30 am – 12:30 am) Chairs:
– System and waveform modeling (1) (9:30 am – 10.30 am)
- 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)
- 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 am)
SESSION 3 (Thursday, May 8th, 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm) Chairs:
– Population inference (2:30 pm – 3:30 pm)
- Lavinia Paiella, How to grow heavy black holes
- Alexandre Toubiana, Population of compact objects
- 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
– Coffee break (3:30 pm – 4:00 pm)
– Data analysis for 3G detectors (4:00 pm – 4:45 pm)
- 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 (4:45 pm – 5:50 pm)
SESSION 4 (Friday, May 9th, 09:30 am – 12:30 am) Chairs:
– Data Analysis challenges (9:30 am – 10:30 am)
- Federico De Santi, Machine Learning and SBI techniques for LISA & LVK data
- Rodrigo Tenorio Marquez, 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)
- 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
– Discussion (11.45 am – 12:30 am)
This workshop is supported by:
- Gran Sasso Science Institute
- MUR PRIN Grant No. 2022-Z9X4XS.
- ERC Starting Grant No. 945155 “GWmining”.
- Cariplo Foundation Grant No. 2021-0555.



