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 |