KITP program "Merging Strong-field and Perturbative Gravity for the Precision Gravitational-Wave Era"

The KITP program "Merging Strong-field and Perturbative Gravity for the Precision Gravitational-Wave Era" will run May 8, 2028 – Jun 22, 2028. This program will bring together experts across gravitational physics to address one of the central challenges of the coming decade: modelling gravitational waves with the precision required by next-generation observatories. As LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA are upgraded, and as LISA, the Einstein Telescope, and Cosmic Explorer come online, gravitational-wave observations will become dramatically more sensitive. Extracting the full physics from these signals will require equally precise theoretical waveform models. Achieving this demands tools spanning pertur