Category: talks

“Relativistic Fluids around Compact Objects” Workshop

May 15, 2025 / Bruno

Last week (May 5 to 7 2025), I had the pleasure of attending the Relativistic Fluids around Compact Objects workshop, held at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK) in Warsaw, Poland. This event brought together leading experts in astrophysics to discuss the latest advancements in GRMHD simulations and their implications for compact objects like black holes and neutron stars.

The workshop covered a wide range of topics, and I had the opportunity to present my recent results in the modeling of multi-messenger signals from accreting supermassive black hole mergers (slides available here).

The workshop provided a fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues, exchange ideas, and explore potential collaborations. I’m grateful to the organizers for putting together such a well-structured event and to everyone who attended my talk.

Talk at XXIV SIGRAV Conference

September 10, 2021 / Bruno

After almost two years I attended an in-person conference. It was the XXIV Conference of the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV) at the University of Urbino (Italy). I gave an invited plenary talk on “GRMHD Simulations of Compact Object Binaries”. The pdf version of my talk can be found on the conference webpage.

Einstein Toolkit and TCAN Workshops at RIT

June 22, 2019 / Bruno

This week I participated at two very interesting workshops at the Rochester Institute of Technology: the Einstein Toolkit and the TCAN meeting. I gave a talk on wednesday presenting some applications of my WhiskyMHD code to binary neutron star mergers (below you can find the YouTube video of my talk).

Both workshops were successful and with very interesting discussions about the future of the Einstein Toolkit and our plan for the next year of our TCAN international collaboration funded by NASA. Many young researchers joined both meetings indicating a strong potential growth for the field of numerical relativity applied at astrophysical sources.

Talk at INT in Seattle available on line

August 4, 2017 / Bruno

On July 31 I gave a talk at the INT workshop “Observational Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis in Neutron Star Mergers” on “Magnetic Field Effects in the Post-Merger Phase of Binary Neutron Stars”. The slides of my talk are available online in pdf format together with the other workshop talks.

Plenary talk at the EPS Conference on Plasma Physics

July 10, 2017 / Bruno

Two weeks ago I gave a plenary talk on “General Relativistic MagnetoHydroDynamic Simulations: a Review and Status Report” at the European Physical Society 44th Conference on Plasma Physics (Belfast, Northern Ireland). The pdf version of my talk is now available online.

EWASS 2017 review talk

July 10, 2017 / Bruno

Two weeks ago I gave a review talk on “Merging Neutron Stars as Tools for Fundamental Physics” at the S13 session on “The multifrequency gravitational wave universe” at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (June 26 – 30 2017, Prague, Czech Republic). The slides of my talk can be found here in pdf format.

Talk on “EM Counterparts of LIGO-Virgo Events” at INAF

April 12, 2016 / Bruno

Yesterday I attended the “INAF after GW150914” meeting in Rome. I was asked to give a short theoretical overview on electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources (pdf slides can be downloaded here). The focus of the meeting was to better understand the important role that the Italian Astrophysical Research Institute (INAF) can play in the gravitational wave era. The whole meeting was broadcasted live and you can watch it (in Italian) on INAF YouTube channel. Below instead you can listen to my talk (in Italian).