Società Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione

Società Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione
SIGRAV 2016 - Cefalù, Italy, 12 – 18 September 2016
SIGRAV 2016 XXII CONFERENCE
FINAL PROGRAMME
Sunday 11 September
18:00 – 20:00 registration to SIGRAV 2016 XXII CONFERENCE at Registration Desk
(via Mandralisca - Cefalù)
Monday 12 September
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome of the Local Authorities (Mayor of Cefalù, etc.)
and Opening of the Conference
09:30 – 11:10 plenary session I (Chairman: Sergio Zerbini)
09:30 – 09:55 Valeria Ferrari:
Gravitational waves after the first detection: perspectives for fundamental physics and astrophysics
09:55 – 10:20 Mauro Carfora
The Cosmological Back-Reaction Debate
10:20 – 10:45 Andrea Possenti:
The intriguing science of the Fast Radio Bursts
10:45 – 11:10 Massimo Bassan:
Approaching Free Fall on Two Degrees of Freedom: Simultaneous Measurement
of Force and Torque on a Double Torsion Pendulum
11:10 – 11:40 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
11:40 – 12:55 plenary session II (Chairman: Luciano Burderi)
11:40 – 12:05 Giovanni Peres:
From Supernovae to Supernovae Remnants: Bridging the Gap
12:05 – 12:30 Maria Luisa Frau:
Exact results in N=2 Super Yang-Mills Theories
12:30 – 12:55 Monica Colpi:
TBA
13:10 – 14:30 lunch break: brunch at Ottagono Santa Caterina
15:30 – 17:05 parallel sessions I
Room 1 (Chairman: Luca Lusanna)
15:30 – 15:55 Angela Di Virgilio:
GINGER Experiment
15:55 – 16:20 Viviana Fafone:
Sensitivity evolution of interferometric detectors and GW astronomy
16:20 – 16:45 Elena Cuoco
Strategy for signal classification to improve data quality for Advanced Detectors
gravitational-wave searches
16:45 – 17:05 Andrea Giugno:
A corpuscular model for Quantum Black Holes
Room 2 (Chairman: Giampiero Esposito)
15:30 – 15:55 Sperello di Serego Alighieri:
Cosmic Polarization Rotation: testing the foundations of General Relativity
15:55 – 16:20 Alessandro Melchiorri:
Cosmic Microwave Anisotropies: current status and perspectives
16:20 – 16:45 Antonio Di Domenico:
Precision tests of CPT symmetry and Quantum coherence with entangled neutral K mesons in
the search for Quantum Gravity effects
16:45 – 17:05 Riccardo Moriconi:
Big-bounce cosmology from quantum gravity: the case of cyclical Bianchi I Universe
17:05 – 17:30 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
17:30 – 22:00 “Amaldi Medal” awarding ceremony:
17:30 18:00 Introduction by Local Authorities (15 min.) and SIGRAV President (15 min.)
18:00 19:00 Short Talks by the “SIGRAV Prize” winners
18:00 – 18:20 Paolo Pani:
Probing Dark Matter with Strong Gravity
18:20 – 18:40 Marco Drago:
The beginning of the gravitational wave era
18:40 – 19:00 Enrico Barausse:
Theoretical implications of gravitational-wave observations
19:00 20:00 Lectio Magistralis by the “Amaldi Medal” winners
19:00 – 19:30 Guido Pizzella:
Calibration of gravitational wave detectors
19:30 – 20:00 Adalberto Giazotto:
Advanced Virgo and LIGO and the worldwide search for gravitational waves
20:00 – 20:30 Awarding of the “SIGRAV Prize” and “Amaldi Medal”
20:30 – 22:00 cocktail at Ottagono Santa Caterina
Tuesday 13 September
8:30 – 11:00 plenary session I (Chairman: Valeria Ferrari)
08:30 – 08:55 Elena Pian:
Gamma-ray burst supernovae: the most powerful explosions in the Universe
08:55 – 09:20 Augusto Sagnotti:
TBA
09:20 – 09:45 Claudia Maraston:
The formation and evolution of the most massive galaxies in the Universe: a continuing
challenge to Cosmology
09:45 – 10:10 Ugo Moschella:
Soluble two-dimensional models of de Sitter Quantum Field Theory
10:10 – 10:35 Fulvio Ricci:
The Network of the Advanced GW Detectors: Status and Future Perspectives
10:35 – 11:00 Luciano Rezzolla:
The physics and astrophysics of merging binary neutron stars
11:00 – 11:30 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
11:30 – 13:10 plenary session II (Chairman: Mariafelicia De Laurentis)
11:30 – 11:55 Alberto Vecchio:
Properties of the first observed binary black hole merger
11:55 – 12:20 Piero Rosati:
Dark and luminous matter distribution of CLASH-VLT galaxy clusters with high-quality
lensing and kinematical data
12:20 – 12:45 Maria Alessandra Papa:
Happy time for gravitational wave (GW) physics
12:45 – 13:10 Anna Nobili:
High-precision space tests of the equivalence principle coming to reality
13:10 – 14:30 lunch break: brunch at Ottagono Santa Caterina
15:30 – 17:30 parallel sessions I
Room 1 (Chairman: Luciano Rezzolla)
15:30 – 15:55 Marta Burgay:
Testing GR with the double pulsar
15:55 – 16:20 Enzo Brocato
TBA
16:20 – 16:45 Riccardo Ciolfi
TBA
16:45 – 17:10 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev:
Compact and extended objects from self-interacting phantom fields
17:10 – 17:30 Salvatore Butera:
Black-Hole lasing in a spinorial Bose-Einstein condensate
Room 2 (Chairman: Mariano Cadoni)
15:30 – 15:55 Cosimo Stornaiolo:
A new approach to torsion theories
15:55 – 16:20 Remo Garattini:
Aspects of Gravity's Rainbow
16:20 – 16:45 Elosia Bentivengna:
Cosmological Numerical Relativity: a status report
16:45 – 17:10 Giovanni Covone:
The Kilo Degree Survey: new constraints on the cosmological parameters from tomographic
weak gravitational lensing
17:10 – 17:30 Michael Florian Wondrak:
Unparticle Effects
17:30 – 18:00 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
18:00 – 19:45 parallel sessions II
Room 1 (Chairman: Lorenzo Amati)
18:00 – 18:25 Tommaso Belloni:
Black Holes and Neutron Stars as Laboratories for Strong Gravity
18:25 – 18:45 Luca Del Zanna:
TBA
18:45 – 19:10 Luca Izzo:
Novae as Lithium factories in the Milky Way: first evidences
19:10 – 19:30 Fabio Garufi:
Probing newborn population of BH/NS tied to Long Gamma Ray and Gravitational Wave
Bursts
Room 2 (Chairman: Roberto Giambò)
18:00 – 18:25 Massimiliano Rinaldi:
Dark energy from classical Yang-Mills Higgs fields coupled to gravity
18:25 – 18:45 Gabriele Gionti:
Cosmologies of the Planck-Era from Lorentzian Renormalization Group for Quantum Gravity
18:45 – 19:05 Nandi De Bottam:
Complete Hamiltonian analysis of cosmological perturbations at all orders
19:05 – 19:25 Noemi Frusciante:
Testing dark energy and modified gravity models with the effective field theory formalism
19:25 – 19:45 Andronikos Paliathanasis:
Integrability in modified theories of gravity
21:00 – 22:00 Public Conference (in Italian)
at Terrazza della fondazione Mandralisca, via Mandralisca - Cefalù
Prof. Luciano Rezzolla (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Frankfurt):
Buchi neri, stelle di neutroni e onde gravitazionali: esplorando l'universo di
Einstein con supercalcolatori
Wednesday 14 September
08:30 – 11:00 plenary session I (Chairman: Leonardo Gualtieri)
08:30 – 08:55 Gianluca Guidi:
Detection of Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole merger
08:55 – 09:20 Roberto Giambò:
Nonlinear techniques in the study of cosmological dynamics
09:20 – 09:45 Roberto Scaramella:
Euclid: the next pace mission for cosmology
09:45 – 10:10 Plamen Fiziev:
New physics in GW150914
10:10 – 10:35 Marco Bruni:
Nonlinear GR effects in structure formation: from approximations to full numerical
relativity simulations
10:35 – 11:00 Mariano Cadoni:
TBA
11:00 – 11:30 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
11:30 – 13:10 plenary session II (Chairman: Monica Colpi)
11:30 – 11:55 Paolo Salucci:
Dark Matter Mystery
11:55 – 12:20 Massimo Della Valle:
Measuring Omega_m with GRBs
12:20 – 12:45 Lorenzo Amati:
Cosmology with Gamma-Ray Bursts
12:45 – 13:10 Stella Luigi
TBA
13:10 – 13:25 Giuseppe Longo
TBA
15:00 -17:00 SIGRAV members general meeting
17:30 – 19:30 guided tour of Cefalù
(Cathedral, Cloister, Mandralisca Museum, Lavatoio Medioevale)
20:30 – 23:30 conference dinner
(please note that the cost of the conference dinner is included in the conference fee.
For accompanying persons, the conference dinner ticket can be purchased at a cost
of € 50.00 when registering at the conference at the registration desk)
Thursday 15 September
08:30 – 11:00 plenary session I (Chairman: Roberto Casadio)
08:30 – 08:55 Sergei Odintsov:
Unified inflation-dark energy universe evolution from new models of modified
gravity
08:55 – 09:20 Antonaldo Diaferio:
The caustic technique: the wide-angle tool for disclosing cluster formation
09:20 – 09:45 Valeria Pettorino:
Dark Energy and Modified Gravity after Planck
09:45 – 10:10 Alexander Kamenshik:
Some aspects of anisotropic cosmologies
10:10 – 10:35 Stefano Mancini:
On relativistic quantum information
10:35 – 11:00 Innocenzo Pinto:
Thermal Noise in Interferometric Detectors - the LIGO Optimized Test Mass Coatings
11:00 – 11:30 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
11:30 – 13:10 plenary session II (Chairman:Gaetano Lambiase)
11:30 – 11:55 Leonardo Gualtieri:
Testing general relativity with gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves
11:55 – 12:20 Roberto Casadio:
Black Holes: a window into Quantum Gravity
12:20 – 12:45 Enrico Calloni:
Towards weighing the Vacuum Energy
12:45 – 13:10 Giampiero Sindoni:
General Relativity, Frame-Dragging and LARES Satellite
13:10 – 13:35 Roberto Cianci:
Formal calculation and exact Dirac Einstein solutions
13:35 – 14:35 lunch break: brunch at Ottagono Santa Caterina
15:30 – 17:30 parallel sessions I
Room 1 (Chairman: Massimo Della Valle)
15:30 – 15:55 Marica Branchesi:
Multi-messenger Astronomy with Gravitational Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation
15:55 – 16:20 Alessandro Papitto:
Relativistic broadening of X-ray emission features from accretion disks in neutron star low-mass X-ray
binaries
16:20 – 16:45 Angelo Antonelli:
Searching for VHE emission from GW sources with MAGIC
16:45 – 17:10 Delphine Perrodin:
Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsars: the LEAP project
17:10 – 17:30 Stefano Viaggiu:
Finite size effects at the apparent horizon
Room 2 (Chairman: Luca Lusanna)
15:30 – 15:55 Marco Limongi:
TBA
15:55 – 16:20 Leonardo Castellani:
The integral form of supergravity
16:20 – 16:45 Paolo Aschieri:
Observables and dispersion relations in quantum spacetimes
16:45 – 17:10 Giampaolo Vacca:
Asymptotic safety for gravity: status and perspectives
17:10 – 17:30 Aneta Wojnar:
Equilibrium and stability of relativistic stars in extended theories of gravity
17:30 – 18:00 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
18:00 – 19:35 parallel sessions II
Room 1 (Chairman: Fabio Garufi)
18:00 – 18:25 Francesco Ferraro:
The dynamical evolution of star clusters as traced by Blue Stragglers
18:25 – 18:50 David Coward:
Australian participation in the first EM follow-up of gravitational wave sources: from radio to optical
18:50 – 19:15 Francesco Hardt:
Dynamics of massive black hole triplets in galactic nuclei
19:15 – 19:40 Pierluigi Monaco:
The construction of cosmological mock galaxy catalogs
Room 2 (Chairman: Francesco Becattini)
18:00 – 18:25 Salvatore Mignemi:
Physics of Snyder spaces
18:25 – 18:50 Emilio Fiordilino:
Harmonic emission from reduced dimensionality systems
18:50 – 19:10 Shynaray Myrzakul:
Noether Symmetry Approach
19:10 – 19:30 Daniele Vernieri:
Status of Horava gravity: from theory to cosmology
21:00 – 22:00 Public Conference (in Italian)
at Terrazza della fondazione Mandralisca, via Mandralisca - Cefalù
Prof. Massimo della Valle (Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte):
Terra! Alla ricerca di Vita intelligente nell'Universo
Friday 16 September
08:30 – 11:00 plenary session I (Chairman: Stefano Mancini)
08:30 – 08:55 Massimo Bianchi:
Fundamental Interactions: one String to rule them all
08:55 – 09:20 Francesco Becattini:
Thermodynamic equilibrium in relativity and quantum field theory
09:20 – 09:45 Alfio Bonanno:
Astrophysical implications of the Asymptotic Safety Program in Quantum Gravity
09:45 – 10:10 Stefano Bellucci:
Vacuum Currents from Geometry, Topology and Boundaries
10:10 – 10:35 Ignazio Bombaci:
Neutron stars: cosmic laboratories to study matter at extreme densities
10:35 – 11:00 Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta:
Compact massive objects in galactic centers
11:00 – 11:30 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
11:30 – 13:10 plenary session II (Chairman: Claudia Maraston)
11:30 – 11:55 Guglielmo Tino:
Testing gravity with atomic interferometers and clocks on ground and in space
11:55 – 12:20 Fernando De Felice:
Chronology protection in the Kerr metric
12:20 – 12:45 Simone Dell Agnello:
The Moon and Mars as laser-ranged test bodies for General Relativity
12:45 – 13:10 Andrzej Borowiec:
Starobinsky cosmological model a la Palatini
13:10 – 14:30 lunch break: brunch at Ottagono Santa Caterina
15:30 – 17:30 parallel sessions I
Room 1 (Chairman: Sergio Zerbini)
15:30 – 15:55 Luca Lusanna:
Dark matter: a problem in relativistic metrology?
15:55 – 16:20 Antonino del Popolo:
The small scale problems in the standard cosmology
16:20 – 16:45 Roberto Passante:
Casimir-Polder interaction between two uniformly accelerated atoms and the Unruh effect
16:45 – 17:10 Lucia Rizzuto:
Resonance interaction between two identical atoms uniformly accelerated in vacuum
17:10 – 17:30 Naulak Malsawmtluangi:
Inflation and the BB-mode correlation spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background from massive
gravity
Room 2 (Chairman: Cosimo Stornaiolo)
15:30 – 15:55 Giampiero Esposito:
Solar System Dynamics in General Relativity: a Modern Perspective
15:55 – 16:20 Gaetano Vilasi:
TBA
16:20 – 16:45 Marco Merafina:
A new point of view in the analysis of equilibrium and dynamical evolution of globular
clusters
16:45 – 17:10 Gaetano Lambiase:
Two-field inflation in early Universe
17:10 – 17:30 Mishra Bvudutta:
Cylindrically symmetric cosmological model of the universe in modified gravity
17:30 – 18:00 coffee break at Ottagono Santa Caterina
18:00 – 19:35 parallel sessions II
Room1 (Chairman: TBD)
18:00 – 19:35 parallel sessions II
18:00 – 18:25 Francesca Vidotto:
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology with Primordial Black Holes
18:25 – 18:45 Giulio F. Aldi:
Contribution of higher order images of accretion disks to relativistic iron lines in the strong deflection
limit
18:45 – 19:05 Frederic Lassiaille:
Simplified three elements theory
19:05 – 19:25 Mounir Boussahel:
Dark Energy Effect in Quantum Entanglement in Curved Space
Room 2 (Chairman: TBD)
18:00 – 18:25 Adele La Rana:
Looking for coincidences: the birth of gravitational wave detection in Italy and the beginning
of the first International detector networks
18:25 – 18:50 Bianca Cerchiai:
A special root to Born-Infeld Theories
18:50 – 19:15 Andrea Addazzi:
Antievaporation in Extended theories of gravity
19:15 – 19:35 Mohamed Fouad Mourad:
Dirac Equation and Angular Momentum of the Stationary Axisymmetric Space-Time in the
Teleparallel gravity
19:35 – 20:00 concluding remarks – end of the conference
21:00 – 22:00 Public Conference (in Italian)
at Terrazza della fondazione Mandralisca, via Mandralisca - Cefalù
Prof. Salvatore Capozziello (Università di Napoli):
La Relatività Generale: dalla nascita alle onde gravitazionali
Posters:
Santi Cassisi
Houda Mansour
Paolo Scudellaro