12 May 2023

Strong PhD Day

The Strong Group held a vibrant PhD Day May 12, at the Arbejdermuseet / The Workers Museum in central Copenhagen. The event joined the entire group and a number of visitors, and the day was filled with talks by all the Strong PhD students as well as visiting PhD and Master students, followed by a question and answer session. The program included an introduction to the museum, its history and its role in Danish society, as well as a traditional Danish lunch.

The event program can be found here:

9-9.20 Breakfast

9.20-9.30 Welcome by Vitor/Julie

9.30-10.00 Anson Chen, visiting PhD student: Testing modified gravity with dark sirens by gwcosmo

10.00-10.30 Arianna Foschi, visiting PhD student: To the Galactic Center... and beyond!

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.30 Zhen Zhong, visiting PhD student: Message in a bottle: energy extraction from bouncing geometries

11.30-12.00 Juno Chan, Strong PhD Student: Search for sub-threshold gravitational-wave events

12.00-13.10 Lunch

13.10-13.25 Introduction to the museum (in Festsal)

13.30-14.00 Marina De Amicis, Strong PhD Student: Effects of gravitational waves on the rotation of compact objects and spectroscopy of charged black holes mergers

14.00-14.30 Conor Dyson, Strong PhD Student: Punctures, Plunges, and Penrose Processes

14.30-14.45 Short break

14.45-15.15 Evelyn-Andreea Ester, Strong PhD Student: Quantum phenomena in high curvature regimes and its observational consequences

15.15-15.45 Coffee break

15.45-16.15 Thomas Spieksma, Strong PhD Student: Gravitational Atoms: Towards a Realistic Setting

16.15-16.45 Jaime Redondo Yuste, Strong PhD Student: Non-linearities in black hole spacetimes

16.45-17.00 Short break

17.00-17.20 Zaryab Ahmed, visiting MSc student: Modified Gravity and Black Hole Ringdowns

17.20-17.40 Vasco Gennari, visiting MSc student: Testing general relativity through black hole vibrations

18.30-21.00 Dinner at Cocks and Cows, Gammel Strand 34, 1202 CPH K.

The program also included a tribute to Strong Research Coordinator, Julie de Molade by all the PhD students, for her work at Strong. The day finished at the restaurant 'Cocks and Cows' for a social dinner.