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The Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (TEGrAW)
Paris, 26-30 June, 2017

The detectors of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration have observed, for the first time, the gravitational waves emitted by the inspiral and merger of two massive black holes at large distances. This major discovery opens up the way to Gravitational Astronomy, which should revolutionalize our understanding of the Universe at large scales, with notably the mechanisms of formation and growth of black holes and their role in the evolution of the Universe, and the likely emergence of a multi-messenger astronomy concomitant with electromagnetic waves and possibly neutrinos. While theoretical and numerical works in general relativity play an important role in the detection process and the data analysis of gravitational waves, the exploration of the gravitational Universe will also provide novel tests of general relativity and question the status of gravitation among the other fundamental interactions.

The conference will focus on the most recent developments in the field, including experimental works and future detectors (on ground and in space), data analysis issues, black hole astrophysics, theoretical works on the two-body problem, effective theories, numerical relativity, and tests of gravity theories.

Invited speakers

• Bruce Allen (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Leibniz Universität Hannover)
• Krzysztof Belczynski (Astronomical Observatory, Warsaw University)
• Luc Blanchet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS)
• Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Institute of Technology)
• Neil J. Cornish (Montana State University)
• Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques)
• Lawrence E. Kidder (Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University)
• Sergey Klimenko (University of Florida)
• Hyung Mok Lee (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
• Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
• Selma E. de Mink (Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam)
• Ewald Müller (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik)
• Tsvi Piran (Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University)
• David H. Reitze (LIGO, California Institute of Technology, University of Florida)
• Alberto Sesana (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham)
• Masaru Shibata (Center for Gravitational Physics, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)
• Xavier Siemens (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• James Ira Thorpe (Gravitational Astrophysics Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
• Maarten van de Meent (University of Southampton, Albert Einstein institute)
• Chris Van den Broeck (Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica - Nikhef)
• Jean-Yves Vinet (Artemis, Université Côte d'Azur CNRS, Observatoire Côte d'Azur)
• Marta Volonteri (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Local Organizing Committee

Enrico Barausse, Luc Blanchet, Valérie Bona, Guillaume Faye, Amandine Guillemois, Lionel Provost, Madeleine Roux-Merlin

Scientific Organizing Committee

Enrico Barausse (IAP), Marie-Anne Bizouard (LAL, Orsay), Luc Blanchet (IAP), Guillaume Faye (IAP, Chair), Eric Gourgoulhon (LUTH, Meudon), Bala R. Iyer (ICTS, Bangalore), Jean-Pierre Lasota (IAP), Clifford Will (University of Florida)

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Sponsors

APC	CNES	CNRS	DIM ACAV
FRIF	IAP	PNGRAM	PNHE
UPMC		ILP