DrNiels Warburton

I co-organized a month-long workshop that brought together leading experts and early career scientists in the field of theoretical modelling (from astrophysics to numerical relativity), electromagnetic observations, and gravitational wave data analysis, aiming to prepare the community for the new kind of gravitational wave data and to enable groundbreaking astrophysics in the milli-Hertz regime.

Public lecture to the Cork Astronomy Club titled "Gravitational waves, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), and extreme mass ratio inspirals"

Public talk entitled "Gravitational waves from supermassive black holes" at the Charles University in Prague

I was the lead organiser for the 15th International LISA Symposium. The conference featured a program dedicated to gravitational wave astrophysics, with particular emphasis on sources that can be observed in the millihertz band by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the current status and unique challenges in gravitational theory and analysis for LISA sources, and the latest updates on the development of the LISA mission.

Co-chair

I co-organised a workshop on non-linear aspects of general relativity at Princeton University. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity is a well-posed theory of gravity from which one should be able to extract predictions for the evolution of any suitable initial configuration. Extracting concrete predictions can be extremely challenging in practice, mainly due to the nonlinear character of the Einstein equations. This workshop brought together a diverse group of researchers from astrophysics, physics and mathematics backgrounds to share ideas and explore multi-disciplinary strategies for tackling the nonlinear aspects of General Relativity. These issues range from black hole mergers/ringdown, and gravitational self-force to cosmic censorship and the stability of black holes.

Member

I co-organized the 25th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity which was held at University College Dublin, Ireland from 20th - 24th June 2022. The five days were filled with contributed talks and extensive discussion sessions. The conference was held primarily as an in-person event with live remote participation via Zoom. There was no registration fee.

Online event organized by the School of Mathematics and Statistics for Maths Week 2020

Activities around black holes and spacetime, including virtual reality black hole experience for secondary school students in the day led by PhD researchers in the group. The evening saw two Astronomy on Tap talks in a local pub.

Public talk entitled "Studying the Invisible" and virtual reality black hole experience run along with PhD students in the group

Virtual reality black hole experience, with talks from some of our PhD students

Talk on black holes followed by our black hole virtual reality experience given at Pint of Science event in Dublin

Co-chair