Summary: The possibility to detect a gravitational wave background (GWB) of primordial origin is a holy grail of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. Any such fundamental background will be very likely buried under a plethora of astrophysical signals, and hence its detection represents a major challenge for upcoming PTA observations and next generation of GW experiments, expected to become operative by the mid 2030’s. In light of the growing interest in GWB source modelling and signal reconstruction, the present workshop has a twofold focus:
i) discussing the latest advances in the theoretical modelling of GWBs
ii) discussing statistical techniques for realistic background reconstruction on top of astrophysical signals, within the spirit of a global fit.
This meeting will bring together astrophysicists, cosmologists, particle physicists and statisticians, with a varied expertise from theoretical physics to data analysis, to discuss open questions on the modelling and detection of GWBs.
ATTENTION: The workshop will take place downtown (not at IFIC !), in CSIC's headquarters:
Casa de la Ciencia (Delegación CSIC),
C. Bailía, 1, Ciutat Vella, 46003 Valencia. See Venue details in the left menu.
Organizers: Daniel G. Figueroa and Bryan Zaldívar (IFIC, Valencia)
Management:
Chabely Prats
Contact: chabely.prats@ific.uv.es
Keynote speakers:
Quentin Baghi* (APC, Paris)
Stanislav Babak (APC, Paris)
Chiara Caprini (CERN/UNIGE, Geneva)
Carlo Contaldi (Imperial College, London)
Valerie Domcke (CERN, Geneva)
Will Handley (Univ. Cambridge)
Mark Hindmarsh (HIP/Sussex, Helsinki/Brighton)
Nikolaos Karnesis (Thessaloniki U.)
Valeriya Korol (Max-Planck-Institut, Garching)
Joanes Lizarraga (EHU, Bilbao)
Andrea Mitridate (DESY, Hamburg)
Mauro Pieroni (CERN, Geneva)
Peera Simakachorn (IFIC, Valencia)
Bryan Zaldivar (IFIC, Valencia)
*TBC
Sponsors: This workshop has received funding/support from
* The MCIU with funding from the European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I01) and Generalitat Valenciana (GVANEXT), Projects: ASFAE COORD, and ASFAE Artemisa.
* The Conselleria de Educación, Universidades y Empleo Research Project "Understanding non-perturbative Phenomena in fundamental physics" , Project: PROMETEO/2021/083.
