#  Sackler Conference 2018 Videos and Slides from Talks 

 



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 **Day One**

 **Charles Alcock and Avi Loeb:** Welcome – [Video](https://youtu.be/TNhBaER45Sw) - [Slides](/file_url/385)

Sort    **Session 1: Detectors and Techniques**

 

 



 *Session Chair: Vicky Kalogera*

 **Lisa Barsotti:** Status of LIGO and Virgo towards O3 – [Video](https://youtu.be/SX7HyDmoePY) - [Slides](/file_url/382)  
**Matt Evans:** Future ground-based detectors – [Video ](https://youtu.be/AXxQwoXVFpw)- [Slides](/file_url/383)

 **Karsten Danzmann:** Gravitational wave astronomy from space: LISA and its pathfinder  – [Video](https://youtu.be/EJR8QgsloU0) - [Slides](/file_url/388)

 **Maura McLaughlin:** Pulsar Timing Arrays: Current Status and Future Prospects – [Video](https://youtu.be/pJhWs_cx8R0) - [Slides](/file_url/384)

Sort    **Session 2: Data analysis + parameter estimation + Model Selection**

 

 



 *Session Chair: Jim Moran*

 **Alessandra Buonanno:** The Next Theoretical Challenges for Gravitational-Wave Observations – [Video](https://youtu.be/6eZ2d7jSYVo) - [Slides](/file_url/397)

 **Duncan Brown:** Template-based search techniques – [Video](https://youtu.be/DhJ_oOk4z_E) - [Slides](/file_url/389)

 **Maria Alessandra Papa:** Continuous source search techniques – [Video](https://youtu.be/SRfDtZurwWM) - [Slides](/file_url/390)

 **Neil Cornish:** Gravitational wave parameter estimation – [Video](https://youtu.be/WjALYWu5y6Y) - [Slides](/file_url/395)

Sort    **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](https://youtu.be/QhPdlWvWnI0) - [Slides](/file_url/398)

 **Selma de Mink:** Black hole binary formation – field (non-common envelope) – [Video](https://youtu.be/q11HJpH0490) - [Slides](/file_url/386)

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 **Day Two**

Sort    **Session 3: Source populations, cont’d**

 

 



 *Session Chair: Ramesh Narayan*

 **Fred Rasio:** Black Hole Binary Formation through Stellar Dynamics in Globular Clusters – [Video](https://youtu.be/7htEONhvm_8) - [Slides](/file_url/399)

 **Smadar Naoz:** Black Hole Binary Formation through Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei – [Video](https://youtu.be/X_vXFU5A7IQ) - [Slides](/file_url/391)  
**Deirdre Shoemaker:** Black hole binary - simulations – [Video](https://youtu.be/E7fD3iCCgFk) - [Slides](/files/itc/files/shoemaker.pdf)

 *Session Chair: Josh Grindlay*

 **Daniel Holz:** Some recent results in GW astrophysics – [Video](https://youtu.be/a7VCn0Tb5G0) - Slides  
**Stephan Rosswog:** Neutron star mergers as cosmic factories of heavy elements – [Video](https://youtu.be/H4WAJqr45LU) - [Slides](/file_url/393)  
**Monica Colpi:** LISA black hole coalescences: on clock? – [Video](https://youtu.be/_g6lnQ_IB18) - [Slides](/file_url/387)

 **Stan Woosley:** The stellar mass black hole birth function – [Video](https://youtu.be/Q-zk3GGWucc) - [Slides](/file_url/401)  
**Adam Burrows:** Core-collapse supernova explosions and their gravitational wave signatures – [Video](https://youtu.be/zKWSvCgaKMs) - [Slides](/file_url/394)

 **Marta Volonteri:** Gravitational waves as probes of massive black hole evolution – [Video](https://youtu.be/t9y1flscB1A) - [Slides](/file_url/396)

Sort    **Session 4: Results from LIGO O1/O2**

 

 



 *Session Chair: Irwin Shapiro*

 **Ben Farr:** BBH detections in O1/O2 – [Video](https://youtu.be/tQOsFguIpZo) - [Slides](/file_url/404)

 **Bangalore Sathyaprakash:** A "no-hair" test for binary black holes  – [Video](https://youtu.be/7Ew4jAhlrvA) - [Slides](/file_url/406)

 **Paolo Pani:** Testing the nature of compact objects with gravitational waves – [Video](https://youtu.be/BTwwbD3735M) - [Slides](/file_url/392)

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 **Day Three**

Sort    **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](https://youtu.be/9Gf_myMZLmM) - Slides  
**Brian Metzger:** Kilonova emission from a binary neutron star merger – [Video](https://youtu.be/5Y26h_jdnWs) - [Slides](/file_url/403)  
**Raffaella Margutti:** Radio and X-ray counterparts to BNS mergers – [Video](https://youtu.be/SWtHN1oQg-c) - Slides

 **Bence Kocsis:** EM counterparts for LISA sources – [Video](https://youtu.be/lmEqdIfuMLg) - [Slides](/file_url/402)

 **Panel on EM follow-up**

 Marcelle Soares-Santos, Mansi Kasliwal, Stephen Smartt, Philip Cowperthwaite,

 Lindy Blackburn – [Video](https://youtu.be/KcJHKoPCpOs) - 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](https://youtu.be/iFOODPzyuY8) - [Slides](/file_url/405)