Program & Schedule
Oct 16Monday |
Oct 17Tuesday |
Oct 18Wednesday
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Oct 19Thursday
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7:30-8:30 (Premier room 1/2) | Registration (Premier room 1) Breakfast (Premier room 2) |
Breakfast(Premier room 2) |
Breakfast(Premier room 2) |
Breakfast(Premier room 2) |
8:45 – 9:30 (Premier room 1) |
Welcome
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Peter Fritschel(MIT, USA) “Ground-based GW detectors: current status and near future developments” Abstract |
Paul Lasky (Monash University, Australia): “Overview: Cosmological stochastic gravitational wave detections” | Jan Harms (Gran Sasso Science Institute and INFN, Italy): “Science and Cosmology with future ground based detectors” |
9:30-10:15 (Premier room 1) |
Laura Nuttall(Cardiff University, UK): “Neutron stars and stellar-mass black-holes – results from the first and second advanced LIGO and Virgo observing runs” |
Pablo Marchant(CIERA, Northwestern University): “Neutron star and black holes astrophysics” |
Sinead Walsh(Albert Einstein Institute, Germany): “ Searching for continuous GW signals” |
Elena Pian(Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy): “High Energy Astrophysics” |
10:15-10:45 |
Press ConferenceWashington, DC |
Gravitational Wave Searches I |
Astrophysics III |
Coffee break
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10:45–11:15 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Instrumentation II |
11:15–12:00 | Varun Bhalerao (India Institute of Technology, India): “Electromagnetic follow up of LIGO/Virgo detections of gravitational waves” Abstract | Gemma Jansen (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Netherlands): “Search for Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing” |
Instrumentation I |
Astrophysics III |
12:00-13:30 (Premier room 2) | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break | Lunch break |
13:30–14:15 (Premier room 1) | Brian Metzger (Columbia University, USA): “Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Waves and their Electromagnetic Counterparts” Abstract | Jacob Slutsky (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA): “LISA and LISA Pathfinder: Space-based detection of mHz gravitational-wave science” |
EM Follow up IV |
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14:15–15:15
(Premier room 1) |
Electromagnetic Follow-up I |
Gravitational Wave Searches II |
LIGO tour |
Astrophysics IV |
15:15–15:45 (Premier room 2) |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Future Prospects |
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15:45-16:30 (Premier room 1) |
Electromagnetic Follow-up II |
Astrophysics I |
Close out | |
16:30–17:15(Premier room 1) |
Astrophysics 1Poster Flash Presentations |
Electromagnetic Follow-up III |
BanquetStart at 6:30 PM (Premier room 2) |
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17:15-19:00(Premier room 2) |
Poster Session/Reception |
Astrophysics II
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The conference meetings will be held in Premier room 1. The breaks, lunch, banquet and poster session will be in Premier 2.