Contributed Sessions

Contributed Sessions

The conference meetings will be held in Premier room 1. The breaks, lunch, banquet and poster session will be in Premier 2.

Monday 14:15-15:15 Electromagnetic Follow-up I
Tyson Littenberg Searching for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with LIGO/Virgo Gravitational-Wave Candidates using the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Abstract
Peter Veres Results from electromagnetic counterpart search programs with Fermi GBM Abstract
Jamie Kennea Swift and the Search for EM Counterparts  Abstract
James Annis DES-GW: Searching for kilonova with DECam  Abstract
Monday 15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
Monday 15:45-16:30 Electromagnetic Follow-up II
Stefano Valenti Searching for the electromagnetic counterpart of LIGO/Virgo events with the DLT40 supernova search.  Abstract
Iair Arcavi GW EM Followup with the Unique Las Cumbres Observatory  Abstract
Ken Hearner Cosmology with Gravitational Waves in DES and LSST  Abstract
Poster Flash Slides
Monday 17:00 – 19:00 Poster session/Reception
Tuesday 10:15-10:45 Gravitational Wave Searches I
Matteo Di Giovanni Detection of gravitational wave transients: estimating signal waveforms errors with minimal assumptions  Abstract
Javier M. Antelis A supervised learning approach to estimate parameters of binary black holes from gravitational waveforms   Abstract
Tuesday 14:15-15:00 Gravitational Wave Searches II
Cody Messick The GstLAL Low-Latency Search for Compact Binary Mergers in O2      Abstract
Davide Gerosa Reanalysis of LIGO black-hole coalescences with alternative prior assumptions    Abstract
Graham Smith Strongly-lensed Gravitational Waves    Abstract
Tuesday 15:00-15:30 Astrophysics I 
Felix Mirabel The formation of stellar black holes  Abstract
Astrid Lamberts Merging massive black holes: the right place, the right time   Abstract
Tuesday 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Tuesday 16:00-17:00 Electromagnetic Follow-up III
Ryan Foley The One-Meter Two-Hemisphere (1M2H) Program   Abstract
Maria Drout EM Follow-up of GW Triggers from Las Campanas Observatory  Abstract
Nick Cannady Search for Hard X-ray and Gamma-ray Counterparts to GRBs and Gravitational Wave Events with CALET    Abstract
Tingting Liu Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey     Abstract
Tuesday 17:00-17:45 Astrophysics II
Karelle Siellez Predictions for the rate of short GRB in coincidence with GW in LIGO/Virgo   Abstract
Gavin Lamb Revealing short GRB jet structure and dynamics with Gravitational Wave Electromagnetic Counterparts   Abstract
Sourav Chatterjee Dynamical Production of Merging Compact Binaries in Dense Star Clusters     Abstract
Wednesday 10:15-10:45 Astrophysics III
Nevin Weinberg Tides in Coalescing Superfluid Neutron Stars   Abstract
Haakon Andresen Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae    Abstract
Wednesday 11:15-12:00 Instrumentation I
Keiko Kokeyama Status of KAGRA, the underground and cryogenic gravitational-wave telescope  Abstract
Maggie Tse Squeezed Vacuum Injection for aLIGO O3   Abstract
Terra Hardwick Operation of LIGO detectors with high laser power    Abstract
Thursday 10:15-10:45 Instrumentation II
Marie Kasprzack Angular noise sources during the second observing run  Abstract
Karla Elizabeth Ramirez Guevara Characterization of the Alignment Sensing and Control Subsystem of Advanced LIGO to prepare the third observing run  Abstract
Thursday 11:15-12:00 Astrophysics III
Youjun Lu Host galaxy properties of mergers of stellar binary black holes and their implications for advanced LIGO gravitational wave sources    Abstract
Jared Rice Radio afterglow of gravitation-driven plasma waves in supermassive black hole binary mergers   Abstract
Claudia Moreno Gravitational and electromagnetic signatures of accretion into a charged black hole    Abstract
Thursday 13:30-14:15 EM Follow up IV
Francesco Verrecchia Search of GW counterparts by the AGILE satellite    Abstract
Aaron Tohuvavohu Swift as a follow-up engine for GW triggers: Improving for O3   Abstract
James DeLaunay Gravitational Wave and Multimessenger Searches with AMON    Abstract
Thursday 14:15-15:15 Astrophysics IV
Maya Fishbach Where are LIGO’s Big Black Holes?     Abstract
Qingjuan Yu Evolution of massive binary black holes in realistic galaxy distributions and their gravitational wave radiation     Abstract
Liudmila Fesik Polarization states of gravitational waves detected by LIGO-Virgo antennas        Abstract
Mauri Valtonen High accuracy measurement of gravitational wave back-reaction in the OJ287 black hole binary    Abstract

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