BelGrav weekly meeting "Roundtable" format

Wednesday 14 Dec 2022, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Brussels

https://cern.zoom.us/j/8354516554?pwd=N3lSOWdhczdLcnNUSkZLRVNMeDFkQT09 (virtual - zoom)

News and announcements: please see slide. Next BelGrav meeting on Jan 11.

CW:

Magdalena: Parallax paper approved!

Andrew: Paper to PnP for GeV excess. CW finished first detection readiness document. Analysis of LISA pathfinder data.

SGWB:

[UAntwerpen] Nick: No specific updates. Kevin and Jessica presented yesterday. About intermittent stoch signals. Kamiel's paper has been accepted! Null channel paper rejected. Rebuttal to PRD. Kevin: about to submit to PnP.

[VUB] Alex + Kevin: 1st order PT and domain walls implications. Undergoing review.

[UCLouvain] Jishnu: Pieces of code to be reviewed before O4.

Sébastien: Astrophysical implication of PBH.

BE-Higgs Solstice meeting at ULB on Wednesday Dec 21, next week. At VUB at 4pm. Presentation by Mairi & Fabio. In-person only. Link: https://indico.iihe.ac.be/event/1707/

Mechanics:

[UAntwerpen] Pengbo: Not too much updates. Maastricht, optimal performance of winding machines. Anoop: performance of RasWatt system.

[UCLouvain] Morgane + Joris: Morgane measurements for improving the bandwidth.

Conmputing:

Giacomo: Andres involved with ET MDC. Alex: Following IRI, similar infrastructure to be set up on the Flemish side. Olivier @ VUB. Archisman: Trying to move to computing jobs to these clusters. Freija in touch with Andres.

 

1 News and announcements

Speaker: Archisman Ghosh (Ghent University)

BelGrav_2022-12-14.pdf

2 CW

Speakers: Magdalena Sieniawska (UCLouvain, CP3), Andrew Miller (UCLouvain), Antoine Depasse (IRMP - CP3)

3 SGWB

Speakers: Max Lalleman (University of Antwerp), Guillaume Boileau (UAntwerpen), Kevin Turbang (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Universiteit Antwerpen), Kamiel Janssens (UAntwerpen), Nick van Remortel (Universiteit Antwerpen), Simone Blasi (VUB), Aäron Rase (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Hannah Duval (VUB), Alba Romero-Rodríguez (IFAE), Alberto Mariotti (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Alexander Sevrin (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Federico De Lillo (UCLouvain - CP3), Jishnu Suresh (Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Institute de Recherche en Mathématique et Physique, Université catholique de Louvain), Giacomo Bruno (Université de Louvain)

4 Instrumentation - mechanics

Speakers: Pengbo Li (UAntwerpen), Kumar Akhil Kukkadapu (UAntwerpen), Anoop Koushik (UAntwerpen), Hans Van Haevermaet, Morgane Zeoli (UCLouvain), Joris van Heijningen (UCLouvain), Daniela Pascussi (UGent)

5 Computing

Speaker: Andres Jorge Tanasijczuk (Universite catholique de Louvain)