Gravitation and scalar fields

A mini-workshop at LUTH

6-7 October 2015

Location

Room 204 of Evry Schatzman building (no. 18) in Meudon Observatory

Program

The duration of each talk is 25 min + 5 min for questions.

Tuesday 6 October

09:00: Welcome (café et croissants)
09:30: Christos Charmousis (LPT, Orsay): Hairy black holes in scalar tensor theories
10:00: Carlos Herdeiro (Univ. Aveiro): Kerr black holes with scalar hair: theory and phenomenology
10:30: Coffee break
11:00: Helgi Runarsson (Univ. Aveiro): Kerr black holes with self-interacting scalar hair: hairier not heavier
11:30: Frédéric Vincent (LESIA, Meudon): Imaging accretion flows around boson stars
12:00: Zakaria Meliani (LUTH, Meudon): Modelling of flows in the vicinity of boson stars and black holes
12:30: Lunch (at the Observatory cafeteria)
14:30: Thomas Sotiriou (Univ. Nottingham): No-hair theorems and coupling with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant
15:00: Enrico Barausse (IAP, Paris): Gravitational-wave emission in shift-symmetric scalar-tensor theories
15:30: Philippe Grandclément (LUTH, Meudon): Kadath : a numerical tool for theoretical physics
16:00: Coffee break
16:30: Gyula Fodor (LUTH, Meudon): Scalar breathers with anti-de Sitter asymptotics
17:00: Grégoire Martinon (LUTH, Meudon): Geons in asymptotically AdS spacetimes
17:30: End of the session

Wednesday 7 October

09:00: Welcome (café et croissants)
09:30: André Füzfa (Univ. Namur): Spherical collapse in quintessential cosmologies with numerical relativity
10:00: Sandrine Schlögel (Univ. Namur): Particlelike distributions of the Higgs field nonminimally coupled to gravity
10:30: Ilia Musco (LUTH, Meudon): Quasi-static solutions for compact objects in Chameleon models
11:00: Coffee break
11:30: Jean-Philippe Bruneton (LUTH, Meudon): Regular Black Holes : singularity-free collapse in modified gravity
12:00: Anastasia Golubtsova (BLTP, Dubna): Linear dilaton for asymptotically Lifshitz-like spacetimes
12:30: Silvano Bonazzola (LUTH, Meudon): Vector boson stars
13:00: Lunch (at the Observatory cafeteria)
14:30 - 17:00: Disussions

Organizers

Éric Gourgoulhon and Annie Le Guevellou

Contact information

Participants

Jean-Michel Alimi (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Enrico Barausse (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France)
Silvano Bonazzola (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Jean-Philippe Bruneton (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Brandon Carter (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Christos Charmousis (Lab. Physique Théorique, Orsay, France)
Stéphane Collion (Air France, Paris, France)
Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France)
Nathalie Deruelle (APC, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Paris, France)
Joaquin Diaz Alonso (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Gyula Fodor (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
André Füzfa (naXys, Univ. Namur, Belgium)
Anastasia Golubtsova (Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Dubna, Russia)
Éric Gourgoulhon (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Philippe Grandclément (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Carlos Herdeiro (Univ. Aveiro, Portugal)
Alexandre Le Tiec (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Grégoire Martinon (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Zakaria Meliani (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Ilia Musco (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Jérôme Novak (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)
Daniela Pérez (Grupo de Astrofísica Relativista y Radioastronomía, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Helgi Runarsson (Univ. Aveiro, Portugal)
Sandrine Schlögel (naXys, Univ. Namur, Belgium)
Thomas Sotiriou (Univ. Nottingham, UK)
Frédéric Vincent (LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France)

Practical informations

Internet connection

Internet access will be provided via the eduroam system; if you do not have eduroam, another wireless network will be accessible.

Access to the workshop

Some pick-up service will be organized from the SNCF train station "Meudon" around 9:00 am on Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning. If you come by your own, please follow this map to find the Evry Schatzman building (no. 18).