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"Enhancements and Improved Tests of Relativity with Multi-band GW Observations " Abstract: As LIGO continues its third observing run, the added gravitational wave (GW) events provide the promise of further tests of general relativity (GR). In the future...

"The Formation and Evolution of Close Binaries and Planets " Abstract: The formation and orbital migration of close binaries and planets remain a mystery. The majority of very close binaries have outer tertiary companions, suggesting Kozai-Lidov...

Jeff Kuhn (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) and Svetlana Berdyugina (KIS, Freiburg) "New ideas for giant telescopes for mapping exoplanets" Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:00 AM ITC Lounge Abstract: Exoplanet direct imaging and light curve...

"Do fast-spinning neutron stars emit continuous gravitational waves? " A neutron star is useful to study some extreme aspects of nature. A fast-spinning neutron star, known as a millisecond pulsar, can typically spin several hundred times in a second. A...

“Structure and Formation of S0 and Spheroidal Galaxies” Update of Kormendy & Bender 2012, ApJS, 198, 2 I present observational evidence that Sph galaxies such as Fornax and NGC 205 are bulgeless S0 galaxies. Sph galaxies are, I suggest, late-type galaxies...

“The Primordial Lithium Problem” Abstract: Big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) remains one of the major pillars of modern cosmology. A comparison of predicted and observationally-inferred primordial 2H and 4He abundances implies a baryon density in excellent...

" Probing the standard cosmological model with the population of binary black-holes" Gravitational-wave (GW) detections are rapidly increasing in number, enabling precise statistical analyses of the population of compact binaries. In this talk I will show...