12 | IHES Annual Report 2020

Thibault DAMOUR Theoretical Physics, permanent professor since 1989.

PUBLICATIONS

With D. Bini, F. Martinetti, A. Nagar, P. Rettegno and G. Riemenschneider Comparing Effective One Body Hamiltonians for Spin aligned Coalescing Binaries Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 10, 104027.

With P.A. Zyla and al. Review of Particle Physics, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics PTEP (2020) 8, 083C01, doi:10.1093/ptep/ptaa104.

With D. Bini and A. Geralico Binary Dynamics at the Fifth and Fifth and a half Post Newtonian Orders Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 2, 024062. Sixth Post Newtonian Local in time Dynamics of Binary Systems Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 2, 024061. Sixth Post Newtonian Nonlocal in time Dynamics of Binary Systems Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 8, 084047.

With V. Nikiforova Black Holes in Torsion Bigravity Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 8, 084027.

With D. Bini, A. Geralico, S. Laporta and P. Mastrolia Gravitational Dynamics at O(G6): Perturbative Gravitational Scattering Meets Experimental Mathematics Prepublication arXiv: 2008.09389.

Gravitational Scattering at the Seventh Order in G: Nonlocal Contribution at the Sixth Post Newtonian Accuracy Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 4, 044038.

Radiative Contribution to Classical Gravitational Scattering at the Third Order in G Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 12, 124008.

CONFERENCES

Germany Rethinking the Relativistic Two-Body Problem; A Universe of Gravitational Waves, AEI, (24-28 August) Whatever Works! [Basta che funzioni !] Plea for an Eclectic Approach to the Two Body Problem (video conference)

Italy EFT Methods from Bound States to Binary Systems, Universita degli Studi di Padova (28-30 October) The Two Body Problem in Classical General Relativity: PM, PN, MPM, MAE, ADM, GSF, EOB, EFT, NRGR, FWF, TF, ACV, BCRSSZ and All That! (video conference)

In 2020, THIBAULT DAMOUR s main activity focused on obtaining an improved analytical control of the dynamics of gravitationally interacting binary systems. A new eclectic framework (dubbed Tutti Frutti ) was introduced (with Donato Bini and Andrea Geralico), and a puzzle concerning the high-energy limit of two-body scattering was solved by taking into account radiation reaction effects.

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DISTINCTIONS

CNRS Bronze Medal (1980) Prix Paul Langevin in theoretical physics, Société Française de Physique (1984) Prix Mergier Bourdeix, Académie des sciences de Paris (1990) First Award of the Gravity Research Foundation (USA) (1994) Albert Einstein Medal (1996) Cecil F. Powell Memorial Medal, European Physical Society (2005) Académie des sciences de Paris, member Amaldi Medal, Società Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione (2010) Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture Prize (2016) Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016) Gruber Cosmology Prize (2016) CNRS Gold Medal (2017) Levi Civita Prize for the Mathematical and Mechanical Sciences (2017) Academia Europaea, member Max Planck for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Fachbeirat member American Academy of Arts and Science, honorary foreign member