Program & Schedule

Program & Schedule

Oct 16

Monday

Oct 17

Tuesday

Oct 18

Wednesday

Oct 19

Thursday
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

John DiTusa, Chair, LSU Department of Physics and Astronomy; Cynthia Peterson, Dean, LSU College of Science

Followed by GW announcement press conference, Washington, DC

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 Conference

Washington, DC

Gravitational Wave Searches I

Astrophysics III

Coffee break

 
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
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
15:45-16:30
(Premier room 1)

Electromagnetic Follow-up II

Astrophysics I

  Close out
16:30–17:15(Premier room 1)

Astrophysics 1

Poster Flash Presentations

 Electromagnetic Follow-up III   

Banquet

Start at

6:30 PM

(Premier room 2)
17:15-19:00(Premier room 2)

Poster Session/

Reception

Astrophysics II

 

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

 

 

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