IV José Plínio Baptista School on Cosmology ​

Gravitational Waves

Pedra Azul - Domingos Martins, ES, Brazil. October 15-19, 2018

---

Home

Mini-courses, Seminars and Posters

List of Participants

Registration

Program

Venue and Accommodation

---

Pedra Azul.

The José Plínio Baptista School of Cosmology (JPBCosmo) reviews every two years relevant topics in Theoretical Physics. Advanced courses and review seminars focus on the state of the art of the chosen topic. The school is aimed at graduate students. 

The 4th edition of the José Plínio Baptista School of Cosmology is devoted to gravitational waves astronomy and astrophysics. The discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO has been one of the major scientific breakthroughs of the last decades and of the history of Physics. The principal authors of their discovery have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017. 
​
Mini-Courses:

• ​Fundamentals of Gravitational Wave Astronomy - Scott Hughes (MIT, USA)
• ​Gravitational Waves and Fundamental Gravity - Ricardo Sturani (UFRN, Brazil)
• Gravitational Wave Detection History - Odylio D. Aguiar (INPE, Brazil)
• Observing and Interpreting Gravitational Waves From Black Holes and Neutron Stars - Badri Krishnan (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
• Topics in Gravitational Wave Physics - Bernard Whiting (University of Florida, USA)
• Topics in Post-Newtonian Theory - Alexandre Le Tiec (Observatoire de Paris, France)

Seminars:

• Black Hole Physics  - Jorge Zanelli (CECs, Chile)
• Gravitational Waves: The Nobel Prize 2017 - Odylio Aguiar (INPE, Brazil) 
• Inflationary Models and Primordial Gravitational Waves - Alexey A. Starobinsky (Landau institute, Russia)
• On the Bending of Light: from Newton Optics to the Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in the Vicinity of a Black Hole - Luís Crispino (UFPA, Brazil) 
• Self-Force and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals - Marc Casals (CBPF, Brazil)
• Stability of Black Holes - Gustavo Dotti (Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina)
• The Gravitational Waves Background  - José Antônio de Freitas Pacheco (OCA, France)

Special Session: In honour of Antônio Brasil Batista on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Organizing Committee:

• Davi C. Rodrigues (UFES)
• Felipe M. Santos (UFES)
• Hermano E. S. Velten (UFES)
• Júlio C. Fabris (Chair, UFES)
• Marc Casals (CBPF)
• Oliver F. Piattella (UFES)
• Riccardo Sturani (UFRN)
• Syrios Gomes (UFES)
• Valerio Marra (UFES)
• Winfried Zimdahl (UFES)

Previous Editions of the School:

2016: The Dark Side of the Universe
2014:  The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
​2012:  Structure formation in the Universe

José Plínio Baptista: 
​
The school is named after professor José Plínio Baptista, who was active in the physics department of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) since 1974 until his death, in 2006. He was one of the co-founders of the physics department, of the physics postgraduate program and of the Cosmology Group of UFES.

---

Support