UKNR 2025 Birmingham

~ 10:00: Arrival, coffee and registration (Vinen Room) ~

11:00: Welcome & CCP News - Slides

11:20: Ulrich Sperhake - Title TBC

12:00: Juliana Kwan - Gotta Go Fast! Optimizing GRTeclyn for accelerated architectures

12:25: Miquel Miravet-Ténes - The UKNR Mentoring Programme

~ 13:00: Lunch ~

14:30: Adam Clark - Spin Precession in Black Hole Scattering: Numerical Relativity vs. post-Minkowskian Gravity

14:55: Stef Husken - Liszt, an algorithm to decompose spatial NR data from ringdown in its QNM content

15:20: Ignacio Brevis - Solving the binary black holes PDE problems using deep learning techniques

15:45 - 17:00: UKNR Roadmap & Discussion

~ 18:00: Workshop Reception (Vinen Room) ~

10:00: Tom Giblin - Primordial Black Holes from Cosmology 

~ 11:00: Coffee (Vinen Room) ~

11.30: Panagiotis Giannadakis - A lower bound on tensor-scalar ratio from inhomogeneous inflation

11:55: Mary Gerhardinger - Simulating Primordial Black Hole Formation in Radiation Cosmology

~ 12:30: Lunch ~

14:00: Sam Brady - Inflaton Dynamics in Higher-Derivative Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity

14:25: Areef Waeming - Oscillon Formation in Modified Gravity

14:50: Seppe Staelens - Stable evolutions of ultracompact black hole mimickers in 3+1 dimensions

15:15: Gareth Marks - Boson Stars as Black Hole Mimickers: Stability and Distinguishability

15:45: Close-out