Ulrich Sperhake
        
            (University of Cambridge)
            
        
                28/10/2025, 09:30
            
        Boson stars are compact objects composed of fundamental fields
arising in theories beyond the standard model (SM) of particle physics.
From dark-matter halos to ultracompact objects with light rings,
they have acquired an important role in gravitational-wave driven
searches for physics beyond the "GR+SM" paradigm. In this talk
we present an overview of the modeling of boson-star...