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Conference talks and seminars

  • Invited seminar at “Gravitational waves and Cosmology – LISA Cosmology Working Group Workshop”, DESY, Hamburg (Germany), 17-21 October 2016. Title “Implications of GW observations for GR extensions”. Conference webpage
     

  • Invited talk at workshop on “Gravitational waves in modified gravity theories”, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 15–17 September 2016. Title “The implications of GW detections for GR extensions. Conference webpage

  • Invited talk at 22nd meeting of the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitational Physics (SIGRAV2016), Cefalù, Italy September 12–18, 2016. Title “The implications of GW detections for GR extensions”. Conference webpage
     

  • Invited talk at day on the “Presentation of the L3 mission” (organized by LISA France). July 5, 2016. Title “eLISA science in the era of first detections”. Conference webpage
     

  • Talk at the “19th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity”, Meudon, France. June 27 - July 1, 2016. Title “eLISA science in the era of first detections”. Conference webpage
     

  • Invited talk at “2016 Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW 2016)”, Hyannis (MA), USA. June 15-18, 2016. Title “eLISA science in the era of first detections”. Conference webpage

  • Invited talk at conference on “The first observation of a binary black hole merger: Status and future prospects ”, Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover (Germany). May 23-26, 2016. Title “Theoretical implications of gravitational-wave observations”. Conference webpage

  • Talk at the University of Padova, Italy, April 21, 2016. Title “Lorentz-violations in gravity and in cosmology”

 

  • Talk at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy, April 12, 2016. Title “eLISA science in the era of first detections”

 

  • Invited talk at conference on “Current Problems in Theoretical Physics, XII Edition”, March 18-23, 2016, Vietri sul Mare, Italy. Title “eLISA science in the era of first detections”. Conference webpage

 

  • “Gravity and Geometry” seminar, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham (UK), January 20, 2016. Title “Gravitational-wave emission and pulsar constraints in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories”

 

  • Gravity and Cosmology seminar at LPT (Laboratoire Physique Theorique), Orsay, France, November 18, 2015. Title “Gravitational-wave emission in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories”. Seminar webpage

  • Theory group seminar at AstroParticle and Cosmology (APC) laboratory, Paris, France, October 20, 2015. Title “Gravitational-wave emission in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories”. Seminar webpage

  • Invited talk at Miniworkshop “Gravitation and scalar fields”, Observatoire de Paris - Meudon, October 6, 2015. Title “Gravitational-wave emission in shift-symmetric Horndeski theories”. Workshop webpage

 

  • Invited talk at the “Extreme Gravity Workshop”, Montana State University, Bozeman, United States, August 20-22, 2015. Title “Should we bother about strong field gravity?”. Conference webpage

 

  • Invited talk at the “27th International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies”, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 17-22, 2015. Title “Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves”. Conference webpage

 

  • Invited talk at “GPhys day”, Observatoire de Paris, July 6th, 2015. Title “Why bother about strong-field gravity? The example of Lorentz-violating gravity theories”. Conference webpage

 

  • Invited seminar at the Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, June 5th, 2015. Title “Black-hole spins as gravitational and cosmological probes”

 

  • Invited seminar at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, June 2nd, 2015. Title “Black-hole spins as gravitational and cosmological probes”. Seminar webpage

 

  • Invited seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany), May 27, 2015. Title “Lorentz violations in gravity and cosmology”. Seminar webpage

 

  • Invited talk at “Fourth COSPA Meeting”, Mons, Belgium, May 20, 2015, Title “Black-holes spins as gravitational and cosmological probes”. Conference webpage

 

  • Invited talk at “eLISA Cosmology Working Group Workshop”, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 14-17 April, 2015. Title “Testing gravity theories with gravitational waves and compact objects: the case of Lorentz violating gravity”. Conference webpage

 

  • Invited talk at “Mini-workshop on gravity and cosmology”, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, February 24 - 27, 2015. Title “Lorentz violations in gravity and cosmology”

 

  • LPT Orsay (France), invited talk at workshop on gravity theories, November 17-18, 2014. Title “Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity”. Workshop webpage

 

  • Osaka University Theoretical Astrophysics Colloquium, Osaka (Japan), June 5, 2014. Title “Compact objects as probes of astrophysics, gravity and fundamental physics”. Seminar webpage

 

  • Talk at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto (Japan), June 2, 2014, as part of a long term workshop on “Holographic vistas on Gravity and Strings”. Title “Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity”. Workshop webpage

 

  • Invited talk at the 10th International LISA Symposium, Gainesville FL (USA), May 18-23, 2014, Title “Black-hole spins as gravitational and cosmological probes”. Conference webpage

 

  • Seminar at the University of Milan Bicocca, Milan (Italy), May 8, 2014, Title “Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity”

 

  • Gravitational Physics Seminars at the University of Cardiff, April 11, 2014, Title “Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity”

 

  • Invited seminar at the 558th WE-Heraeus-Seminar on “The Strong Gravity Regime of Black Holes and Neutron Star”, Bad Honnef (Germany), March 31 to April 4, 2014. Title “Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity”. Conference webpage

 

  • Physics Department Seminar at the University of Trento, Italy, March 19, 2014. Title “Compact objects as probes of astrophysics, gravity and fundamental physics”

 

  • CEA-Saclay, Astrophysics Institute Colloquium (Séminaire SAp), March 11, 2014, Title “Compact objects as probes of astrophysics, gravity and fundamental physics”

 

  • IAP Seminar, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, March 7, 2014. Title “Compact objects as probes of astrophysics, gravity and fundamental physics”. Seminar webpage

 

  • Invited talk at workshop on “The structure of gravity and spacetime”, University of Oxford (UK), February 6-7, 2014. Title “Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity”

 

  • Invited talk at workshop on “Testing General Relativity with Astrophysical Observations”, University of Mississippi, Oxford MS (USA), January 6-10, 2014. Title “Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity”. Conference webpage

 

  • Invited talk at Virtual Institute of Astroparticle Physics (Online seminar platform hosted at the CNRS APC laboratory, Paris, France; see link), November 8, 2013. Title “Strong Binary Pulsar Constraints on Lorentz Violation in Gravity"

 

  • Invited talk at the National Conference of the Italian Physical Society, Trieste (Italy), September 27, 2013. Title “Neutron-star mergers in scalar-tensor theories of gravity”. Conference webpage

 

  • Invited Quantum gravity seminar at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo (Canada), August 22, 2013 Title “Strong Binary Pulsar Constraints on Lorentz Violation in Gravity”.

 

  • Colloquium at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo (Canada), June 7, 2013. Title “Spinning black-hole binaries as gravitational and cosmological probes".

 

  • Colloquium at the University of Guelph (Canada), June 5, 2013. Title “The sound of the Universe: probing astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics with gravitational waves”. Seminar webpage

 

  • Invited talk at the CNRS AstroParticle and Cosmology (APC) laboratory, Paris, France, May 7, 2013 Talk title “Neutron-star mergers in scalar-tensor theories of gravity”. Seminar webpage

 

  • Talk at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (US), April 19, 2013. Talk title “Spinning black-hole binaries as gravitational and cosmological probes”

 

  • Invited Strong Gravity Seminar at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo (Canada), April 11, 2013 Title “Spinning black-hole binaries as gravitational and cosmological probes”.

 

  • Gravity seminar, University of Southampton (UK), March 14, 2013 Talk title “Neutron-star mergers in scalar-tensor theories of gravity”. Seminar webpage

  • Invited talk at the “Strong Gravity beyond GR” workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, March 5 - 8, 2013 Talk title “Neutron-star mergers in scalar-tensor theories of gravity”. Conference webpage

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