Plenary Program (preliminary)


Preliminary Plenary Session Speaker Date Grid:



Monday, July 2nd

Mathematics and General Relativity

Chair: RUFFINI Remo
09:00 - 09:35
Marcel Grossmann Awards
Lyman Page, The Planck Scientific Collaboration, Rashid Sunyaev
HEPL - Stanford, Shing-Tung Yau
09:35 - 10:10
Lectio Magistralis		 Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University):

Quasi-local mass at null infinity
10:10 - 10:45 Rashid Sunyaev (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics):

 
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Malcolm J. Perry (University of Cambridge):

Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair
11:50 - 12:25 Thomas Hertog (KU Leuven):

A smooth exit form eternal inflation
12:25 - 13:00 Jean-Luc Lehners (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics):

No smooth beginning for spacetime
13:00 - 13:35 Ivan Agullo (Louisiana State University):

Loop Quantum Cosmology and the Cosmic Microwave Background
13:35 Group Picture
15:15 - 19:15 Parallel Sessions
19:30 - 20:00
Public Lecture		 Jeremiah Ostriker (Columbia University):

Ultra-light scalars as cosmological dark matter
20:00 - 20:30
Public Lecture		 Malcolm Longair (University of Cambridge):

Ryle and Hewish: 50 and 100 Year Anniversaries
[Radio Astrophysics and the Rise of High Energy Astrophysics]


Tuesday, July 3rd

Kilonovae and Gravitational Waves

Chair: COSTA Enrico
09:00 - 09:35 Elena Pian (IASF Bologna):

Kilonovae: the cosmic foundries of heavy elements
09:35 - 10:10 Nial Tanvir (University of Leicester):

A new era of gravitational-wave/electromagnetic multi-messenger astronomy
10:10 - 10:45 Tsvi Piran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):

Mergers and GRBs: past present and future
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Stephan Rosswog (Stockholm University):

Neutron star mergers as heavy element production site
11:50 - 12:25 David Shoemaker (MIT LIGO Laboratory):

LIGO's past and future observations of Black Hole and Neutron Star Binaries
12:25 - 13:0 Yu Wang (ICRANet):

On the role of binary systems in GW170817/GRB170817A/AT2017gfo
13:00 - 13:35 Hao Liu (University of Copenhagen):

An independent investigation of gravitational wave data
15:15 - 19:15 Parallel Sessions
19:30 - 20:00
Public Lecture		 Marc Henneaux (Université Libre de Bruxelles):

The cosmological singularity
20:00 SYSU Connection

Reception sponsored by the Sun Yat-Sen University - China


Wednesday, July 4th

Gravitational Waves

Chair: LAEMMERZAHL Claus
09:00 - 09:35 Stefano Vitale (University of Trento):

Gravitation Wave Astronomy in ESA science programme
09:35 - 10:10 Takaaki Kajita (University of Tokyo):

Status of KAGRA and its scientific goals
10:10 - 10:45 Masaki Ando (University of Tokyo):

DECIGO : Gravitational-Wave Observation from Space
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Jun Luo (Sun Yat-Sen University):

TianQin: a space-borne gravitational wave detector
11:50 - 12:25 Jo Van Den Brand (Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef, and VU University Amsterdam):

Gravitational wave science and Virgo
12:25 - 13:00 Ernst Maria Rasel (Leibniz Universität Hannover):

 
13:00 - 13:35 Manuel Rodrigues:

The first results of the MICROSCOPE test of the equivalence principle in space
15:15 - 19:15 Free afternoon
19:30 Official Banquet
Palazzo Colonna		  


Thursday, July 5th

GRBs and Galactic Center Black Hole

Chair: TAVANI Marco
09:00 - 09:35 Victoria Kaspi (McGill University):

Fast Radio Bursts
09:35 - 10:10 Bing Zhang (University of Nevada):

From gamma-ray bursts to fast radio bursts: unveiling the mystery of cosmic bursting sources
10:10 - 10:45 Jean-Loup Puget :

The Planck mission
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Jorge Armando Rueda Hernandez (ICRANet):

Binary-driven hypernovae and the understanding of gamma-ray bursts
11:50 - 12:25 Remo Ruffini (ICRANet) TBD:

 
12:25 - 13:00 Heino Falcke (Radboud University Nijmegen):

Imaging Black Holes now and in the future
13:00 - 13:35 Luc Blanchet (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris):

Post-Newtonian Theory and Gravitational Waves
15:15 - 19:15 Parallel Sessions
19:30 - 20:00
Public Lecture		 Jean-Loup Puget :

From Planck to Atacama Cosmology Telescope
20:00 - 20:30
Public Lecture		 Lyman Page (Princeton University):

Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background


Friday, July 6th

Cosmology and Space Science

Chair: GIOMMI Paolo
09:00 - 09:35 Razmik Mirzoyan (Max Planck Institute for Physics):

Gamma-Ray and Multi-Messenger Highlights with MAGIC
09:35 - 10:10 Elisa Resconi (Technical University Munich):

Neutrino Astronomy in the Multi-messenger Era
10:10 - 10:45 Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison):

IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 James Lattimer (Stony Brook University):

The history of r -process
11:50 - 12:25 Ralph Engel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology):

What have we learned about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from the Pierre Auger Observatory?
12:25 - 13:00 Paolo De Bernardis (Sapienza - University of Rome):

 
13:00 - 13:35 Fabio Gargano (INFN Bari):

DAMPE and its latest results
15:15 - 19:15 Parallel Sessions
19:30 - 20:00
Public Lecture		 Anne Archibald:

Does extreme gravity affect how objects fall?
20:00 - 20:30 ICRANet Exhibitions:
"Fermi and Astrophysics" & "ICRANet and China"


Saturday, July 7th

The frontiers

Chair: RICCI Fulvio
09:00 - 09:35 Markus Arndt (University of Vienna):

Experiments to Probe Quantum Linearity at the Interface to Gravity & Complexity
09:35 - 10:10 Tobias Westphal (University of Vienna):

Micro-mechanical measurements of weak gravitational forces
10:10 - 10:45 Shu Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences):

Introduction to Insight-HXMT: China's first X-ray Astronomy Satellite
10:45 - 11:15 coffee break
11:15 - 11:50 Lorenzo Amati (INAF - OAS Bologna):

Cosmology and multi-messenger astrophysics with Gamma-Ray Bursts
11:50 - 12:25 Elisabetta Cavazzuti (ASI):

Gev LAT observations from GRBs and active galactic nuclei
12:25- 13:00 Remo Ruffini (ICRANet):

Concluding Remarks
Roy Kerr

Towards the MG16