Preliminary programme of LP Grishchuk memorial conference
“At the origin of modern cosmology and astrophysics of gravitational waves”
WEDNESDAY, November 16, Sternberg Astronomical Institute
9:30 – 11:00 Registration of participants
11:00 – 11:10 Opening of the meeting. Introductory word by A.M. Cherepashchuk, Director of SAI
11:10 – 12:30 MEMORIAL SESSION. Reminiscences about Leonid Grishchuk ( Kip Thorne, Bernard Schutz, Stas Babak, Sergey Kopeikin et al)
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 16:00 GRAVITATIONAL WAVES I. EXPERIMENT
14:00 – 14:45 Kip Thorne (Caltech, USA) A Brief History of LIGO: A Half Century Quest for Gravitational Waves
14:45 – 15:20 Valery Mitrofanov (Phys. Dep. MSU) for LIGO-Voyager Team: LIGO Voyager Project of Future Gravitational Wave Detector
15:20 – 16:00 Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Cardiff U., PSU) Testing General Realtivity with Gravitational Wave Observations
16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE
16:3018:00 II. GRAVITATIONAL WAVES II. EXPERIMENT
16:30 – 17:00 Farid Khalili (Phys. Dept. MSU) Quantum noise in gravitational-wave detectors
17:00 – 17:30 Sergey Vyatchanin (Phys. Dept. MSU) How to Avoid Parametric Instability in Gravitational Wave Detector
18-00 Welcome party (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)
THURSDAY, November 17
09:45 – 11:30 GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE ASTRONOMY
09:45 -- 10:20 Stanislav Babak(A.Einstein Institute, Golm, Germnay) "Searching for gravitational waves from nano-Hertz to kilo-Hertz"
10:20 -- 11:00 Yuri Levin (Monash U., Australia) Measuring gravitational-wave memory with LIGO and Pulsar Timing Arrays
11:00 -- 11:30 Vladimir Lipunov (SAI MSU) Optical identification of aLIGO/VIRGO events by MASTER robotic project
11--30 – 11:50 COFFEE
11:50 -- 13:00 COSMOLOGY 1
11:50 – 12:20 Olga Sazhina (SAI MSU) Search for cosmic strings
12:20 – 13:00 Pavel Ivanov (AstroSpaceCenter) Gas-assisted Supermassive Black Hole Mergers
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 GRAVITATIONAL WAVES III. EXPERIMENT
14:30 – 15:15 Valentin Rudenko (SAI MSU) Leonid Grishchuk in Gravitational-Wave Space
15:15 – 16:00 Mikhail Sazhin (SAI MSU) Space GW project “TIANQIN” in subHZ frequency range
16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE
16:30 -- 17:40 COSMOLOGY II
16:30 – 17:10 Dmitry Gorbunov (INR) Inflation and reheating in modified gravity.
17:10 – 17:40 Mikhail Ivanov (MSU Moscow, INR RAS, EPFL, Lausanne) Analytical approaches to Large Scale Structures: problems, achievements and future prospects.
18:00 – 20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (Sternberg Astronomical Institute)
FRIDAY, November 18
9:45 – 13:10 THEORY OF GRAVITY
9:45 – 10:20 Alexander Dolgov (Novosibirsk U., U. Ferrara, ITEP) “Universe at high redshifts. Recent observations and problems.”
10:20 – 11:00 Sergey Kopeikin (U. Missuri) General Relativity and Experimental Gravitational Physics
11:00 -- 11:30 COFFEE
11:30 – 11:50 Elena Arbuzova (Dubna U.) "Striking effects of modified gravity".
11:50 – 12:10 Viktor Berezin (INR RAS) Cosmological particle creation phenomenology, conformal gravity and Dirac vacuum
12:10 -- 12:40 Alexander Petrov (SAI MSU) Field theoretical approach in gravitation and applications
12:40 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30 ASTROPHYSICAL SOURCES OF GW
14:00 – 14:40 Alexander Polnarev (Queen Mary College, London) CMB Polarization and primordial GWs
14:40 – 15:10 Konstantin Postnov (SAI MSU) Standard and nonstandard binary BH coalescences registered by LIGO
15:10 – 15:20 Adjourn
16:00 Public lecture by Kip Thorne at the Faculty of Physics (Rem Khokhlov Auditorium)