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Overview

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Federica Bianco, Professor Martin Hendry, and Professor Graham Smith.

The first multi-messenger (electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves) detection of a gravitationally lensed cosmic explosion will have huge impact and unleash decades of novel science. This meeting brings together experts from the relevant disciplines to review recent progress and chart the path to first detection, as the Vera Rubin Observatory nears first-light, and gravitational wave detector sensitivity continues to improve. 

We particularly encourage the participation of early career researchers, including Masters thesis students, PhD students, postdocs, and research assistants. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to submit an abstract about their relevant work for a contributed talk or the poster session.

Contributed talks

We invite submission of abstracts (up to 200 words) to be selected for a contributed talk within the meeting. If successful, you will give a 12 minute presentation followed by 3 minutes for questions. Please submit your talk title and abstract to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 26 January 2024. Your submission should include the text ‘Contributed abstract submission - Gravitational Lensing' in the email subject line.

Poster session

There will be a poster session on Monday 11 March. If you would like to present a poster, please submit your proposed title, abstract (up to 200 words), author list, and the name of the proposed presenter and institution to the Scientific Programmes team no later than Friday 26 January 2024. Please include the text 'Poster abstract submission - Gravitational Lensing' in the email subject line.

Programme

The schedule of talks and speaker biographies will be available shortly.

Attending this event

  • This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is a residential meeting taking place at the Edwardian hotel, Manchester.
  • Free to attend.
  • Advance registration is essential (please request an invitation). When requesting an invitation, please briefly state your expertise and reasons for attending. Requests are reviewed by the meeting organisers on a rolling basis. You will receive a link to register if your request is successful.
  • This is an in-person meeting only.
  • Catering options are available to purchase during registration. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation booking.  

Enquiries: contact the Scientific Programmes team.

Organisers

Schedule

09:00-09:05
Welcome by the Royal Society and lead organiser
09:05-09:30
Introduction and overview

Speakers

09:30-10:00
Fundamental physics

Speakers

10:00-10:30
Time delay cosmography

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

Speakers

10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:30
Kilonova physics
11:30-12:00
Contributed talks
12:00-12:30
Discussion
13:30-14:00
Status: Gravitational wave (GW) perspective

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

14:00-14:30
Status: Electromagnetic (EM) perspective

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

Speakers

14:30-15:00
Status: Joint GW+EM perspective
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:00
Lessons from multi-messenger astronomy

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

16:00-16:30
Lessons from lensed supernova searches

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

Speakers

16:30-17:00
Discussion
17:00-18:30
Flash talks and poster session
09:00-09:30
False positives: GW perspective

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

Speakers

09:30-10:00
False positives: EM perspective
10:00-10:30
Insights from population synthesis
10:30-11:00
Break
10:30-12:00
Contributed talks
11:00-11:30
Machine Learning perspective
12:00-12:30
Discussion
13:30-14:00
The GRB perspective

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

Speakers

14:00-14:30
The FRB perspective

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

14:30-15:00
Contributed talks
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:00
Vera Rubin Observatory

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon. 

16:00-17:00
Panel discussion

Abstract

Abstract of the talk will be available soon.