The Dawning Era of
Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics
The detection of binary black hole mergers has ushered in the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics. This conference will discuss the GW detector network, the scientific output from LIGO’s first science run (O1), the progress of the second run (O2; expected to be ongoing during the conference), and expectations for the future of gravitational wave astronomy. We expect to focus on the following broad topics:
• GW Detectors
• GW data analysis and waveform modeling
• Current GW results
• Astrophysical repercussions of GW measurements, EM follow-up
• The future of gravitational-wave astrophysics
Application deadline is November 15, 2016. Please complete your application here.
Organizers:
Rana X. Adhikari, Caltech
Patrick Brady, UW-Milwaukee
Alessandra Buonanno, Albert Einstein Institute
Laura Cadonati, Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel Holz*, University of Chicago
Mike Landry, LIGO/Caltech
Nergis Mavalvala, MIT
*Denotes physicist in charge of diversity
The Aspen Center for Physics is committed to a significant participation
of women and under-represented groups in all of its programs.
Conference Talks/Slides listed at bottom
Conference Talks/Slides
Name Title (click to access slides)
Monday AM, Chair: Daniel Holz
Laura Cadonati O1 results and where we are now
Chris Belczynski What LIGO’s O1 results have taught us about astrophysics
Duncan Meacher Open challenges and Future directions for LIGO searches
Monday PM, Chair: Patrick Brady
Nico Yunes Testing GR with GW sources
Carl-Johan Haster Precision Measurement of Black Hole Mergers
Richard O’Shaughnessy Numerical relativity and GW data
Stefan Ballmer Instrumental challenges with Advanced LIGO
Tuesday AM, Chair: Ilya Mandel
Philipp Podsiadlowski Chemically homogeneous formation/SNe
Bence Kocsis Disentangling LIGO sources in dense stellar systems
Zsolt Frei Parameter Distributions of Eccentric Stellar BHBs in Galactic Nuclei
Tuesday PM, Chair: Rana Adhikari
Matt Evans Design targets for a new generation of detectors
Benno Willke Lasers for 3rd Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
Belinda Pang Quantum noise in GW detectors: A New Hope
Sunghoon Jung Angular Resolution of Atom Interferometers
Ron Tso Beyond GR Test of Gravitational Wave Dispersion and Polarization
Wednesday AM, Chair: Richard O'Shaughnessy
Geoffrey Lovelace Numerical simulations of merging black holes
Steven Liebling Charged black holes and binaries in Multi-messenger Astronomy
Jeremy Schnittman Radiation Transport in Dynamic Spacetimes
Eliu Huerta Analytical and numerical modeling of eccentric binaries
Wednesday PM
Science Cafe with Leo Singer and Marcelle Soares-Santos
Public Lecture by Rana Adhikari
Thursday AM, Chair: Neil Cornish
Michele Vallisneri Science with PTAs
Guido Mueller eLISA mission design
Zoltan Haiman Merging Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Luke Kelley Detection of Massive BHBs by Pulsar Timing Arrays
Thursday PM, Chair: Matias Zaldarriaga
Davide Gerosa The kick is in the waveform: detection of black-hole recoils
Aaron Zimmerman The ringdown of rapidly rotating black holes
Sergey Klimenko Reconstruction of GW signals
Doron Kushnir GW150914: spin constraints on the merger time of the progenitor
Ilias Cholis Have we detected Dark Matter in LIGO data?
Alex Kusenko Primordial black holes in the mass range relevant to LIGO
Friday AM, Chair: Jordan Camp
Leo Singer First Light: EM Follow-Up with Ground-Based GW Detectors
Marcelle Soares-Santos GW/EM follow-up
Hsin-Yu Chen LIGO localization
Daniel Siegel EM signatures of CBC systems
Juna Kollmeier AS4
Friday PM, Chair: Jim Annis
Neil Cornish Detecting the Unexpected
Ilya Mandel Summary & Discussion
