The Einstein Telescope project     

Wednesday, January 31 2018

Introduction

Chair: Dirk Ryckbosch

9:00       Jean-René Cudell (ULiège)                         Welcome

9:05       Job de Kleuver (APPEC & NWO)             European Astroparticle Physics strategy with
                                                                                   focus on Gravitational Waves ambitions pdf

9:20       Jo van den Brand (Nikhef)                          Probing dynamical spacetimes with
                                                                                   gravitational waves pdf

Data analysis

10:05     Harald Lück (AEI Hannover)                      From Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors
                                                                                   to the Einstein Telescope pdf

Chair: Frank Linde

11:00     Stefan Hild (University of Glasgow)          Design choices for the ET core interferometers pdf

11:25     Giles Hammond (University of Glasgow)  Suspension choices for the Einstein Telescope pdf

11:50     Christophe Collette (ULiège & ULB)          Seismic isolation techniques pdf

Geology and seismology

Chair: Frédéric Nguyen

14:00     Alain Demoulin (ULiège)                            Geological and seismotectonic setting of the
                                                                                   South Limburg candidate site for the Einstein
                                                                                   telescope pdf

14:25     Michel van Camp (ORB)                            Seismic activity in Northwestern Europe pdf

14:50     Jan Harms (GSSI)                                       Newtonian noise and its cancellation in third-
                                                                                   generation detectors pdf

Astrophysics and cosmology

Chair: Ioana Maris

15:45     Dany Vanbeveren (VUB)                           Massive Binary population synthesis pdf

16:10     Nick Van Eindhoven (VUB & Icecube)      Multimessenger astronomy pdf

16:35     Sébastien Clesse (UNamur & UCL)           Unveiling the abundance, mass, clustering and
                                                                                   formation of primordial and stellar black holes
                                                                                   with the Einstein Telescope pdf

17:OO   Bert Vercnocke (KUL )                               Fundamental Physics with the Einstein
                                                                                   Telescope pdf

Closing

17:25     Frank Linde (Nikhef)                                  Paving the road for a joint Belgian, Dutch,
                                                                                   German bid to host ET? pdf