When the M meets the P

20 Jan 2021, 11:00 → 21 Jan 2021, 12:30 Europe/Brussels

Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve)

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Wednesday, 20 January

11:00 → 12:00 IRMP: Presentations

11:00 Kowalevski top: the story of a hidden symmetry

In 1889, Sophie Kowalevski discovered a new case of integrability of the top, besides the well known cases of Euler and Lagrange. The first part of the talk will survey her 1889 groundbreaking Acta Mathematica paper. Besides being an outstanding mathematician, Sophie Kowalevski is one of the most romantic personality in the history of mathematics. A century later, the hidden symmetry behind Kowalevski's top was linked with Kac-Moody Lie algebras and algebraic curve theory

Speaker: Luc Haine (Université catholique de Louvain)

12:00 → 12:30 IRMP: gong session: gong session

12:00 Detecting continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars

Speaker: Andrew Miller (UCLouvain)

CW_known_pulsars_m_meets_p.pdf

12:10 A visual model of the BTZ black hole

Speaker: Louis De Man

12:20 Reviving the interference: framework and proof-of-principle for the anomalous gluon self-interaction in the SMEFT

Speaker: Matteo Maltoni (CP3 / UCLouvain)

Probing_anomalous.pdf

Thursday, 21 January

11:00 → 12:00 IRMP: Presentations

11:00 Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy: Unpacking a Pandora's Box

Diversity and inclusion initiatives in astronomy have been carried out for many years. From public engagement to unconscious bias training and awarding institutions for their work to create diversity in the workplace, we have carried out many and varied activities and programmes to encourage a more diverse and inclusive workplace and culture.
However, many of these interventions are merely box-ticking exercises or feel-good activities that are highly visible, but have no lasting impact. Many have no evidence to support their effectiveness or they are focused too narrowly on particular groups.
By some measures, it will take decades to change the underrepresentation of marginalised groups, using the current paradigm of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Clearly, what we have been doing is not working.
In order to enact meaningful change, we must be willing to have open, honest meaningful conversations about the problems in astronomy in terms of diversity and inclusion.
We require evidence-based initiatives that will drive real change in the workforce, culture and institutions that make up astronomy.

Speaker: Tana Joseph

12:00 → 12:30 IRMP: gong session: Gong session

12:00 Motion measurements to detect gravitational waves in the fridge and on the Moon

Speaker: Dr Joris van Heijningen (UCLouvain)

20210121_MmeetsP_JvH_lowres.pdf

12:10 Three families of knot invariants

Speaker: Fathi Ben Aribi

12:20 The ScotoSinglet Model

Speaker: Dr Ankit Beniwal (CP3, UCLouvain)

AB_M_meets_P_2021.pdf