Day One
Charles Alcock and Avi Loeb: Welcome – Video - Slides
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Session 1: Detectors and Techniques |
Session Chair: Vicky Kalogera
Lisa Barsotti: Status of LIGO and Virgo towards O3 – Video - Slides
Matt Evans: Future ground-based detectors – Video - Slides
Karsten Danzmann: Gravitational wave astronomy from space: LISA and its pathfinder – Video - Slides
Maura McLaughlin: Pulsar Timing Arrays: Current Status and Future Prospects – Video - Slides
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Session 2: Data analysis + parameter estimation + Model Selection |
Session Chair: Jim Moran
Alessandra Buonanno: The Next Theoretical Challenges for Gravitational-Wave Observations – Video - Slides
Duncan Brown: Template-based search techniques – Video - Slides
Maria Alessandra Papa: Continuous source search techniques – Video - Slides
Neil Cornish: Gravitational wave parameter estimation – Video - Slides
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Session 3: Source populations |
Session Chair: Ramesh Narayan
Ilya Mandel: Formation of merging black holes through isolated binary evolution via the
common envelope phase – Video - Slides
Selma de Mink: Black hole binary formation – field (non-common envelope) – Video - Slides
Day Two
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Session 3: Source populations, cont’d |
Session Chair: Ramesh Narayan
Fred Rasio: Black Hole Binary Formation through Stellar Dynamics in Globular Clusters – Video - Slides
Smadar Naoz: Black Hole Binary Formation through Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei – Video - Slides
Deirdre Shoemaker: Black hole binary - simulations – Video - Slides
Session Chair: Josh Grindlay
Daniel Holz: Some recent results in GW astrophysics – Video - Slides
Stephan Rosswog: Neutron star mergers as cosmic factories of heavy elements – Video - Slides
Monica Colpi: LISA black hole coalescences: on clock? – Video - Slides
Stan Woosley: The stellar mass black hole birth function – Video - Slides
Adam Burrows: Core-collapse supernova explosions and their gravitational wave signatures – Video - Slides
Marta Volonteri: Gravitational waves as probes of massive black hole evolution – Video - Slides
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Session 4: Results from LIGO O1/O2 |
Session Chair: Irwin Shapiro
Ben Farr: BBH detections in O1/O2 – Video - Slides
Bangalore Sathyaprakash: A "no-hair" test for binary black holes – Video - Slides
Paolo Pani: Testing the nature of compact objects with gravitational waves – Video - Slides
Day Three
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Session 5: Electromagnetic counterparts + follow-up |
Session Chair: Edo Berger
Wen-fai Fong: Short-duration gamma-ray bursts in the era of GW discovery – Video - Slides
Brian Metzger: Kilonova emission from a binary neutron star merger – Video - Slides
Raffaella Margutti: Radio and X-ray counterparts to BNS mergers – Video - Slides
Bence Kocsis: EM counterparts for LISA sources – Video - Slides
Panel on EM follow-up
Marcelle Soares-Santos, Mansi Kasliwal, Stephen Smartt, Philip Cowperthwaite,
Lindy Blackburn – Video - Slides
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Banquet Keynote Lecture
Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss (with introductory remarks by Avi Loeb) "Prospects and Challenges for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics" – Video - Slides