Computational Challenges in Gravitational Wave Astronomy

January 28 - February 1, 2019

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 28, 2019

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Shedding light on Binary Black Hole Mergers with Numerical Simulations

 
9:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:00
Matt Choptuik (University of British Columbia)

Black hole formation in Randall-Sundrum II braneworlds
PDF Presentation

 
11:00 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 12:10
12:10 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Jess McIver (California Institute of Technology)

Mitigating noise artifacts in gravitational-wave detector data in the era of open public alerts
PDF Presentation

 
2:50 - 3:10 Break
3:10 - 4:00
Frank Ohme (Max Planck Institute für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut)

Modeling compact mergers in the era of regular gravitational-wave observations
PDF Presentation

 
4:30 - 5:30 Please note different location: Korn Convocation Hall
Barry Barish (California Institute of Technology)

Public Lecture - Green Family Lecture Series: “From Einstein to Gravitational Waves"

 
5:30 - 6:45 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
9:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:00
Elena Cuoco (European Gravitational Observatory)

Wavefier: a prototype of real time classifier for transient signals
PDF Presentation

 
11:00 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 12:10
12:10 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:20
Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)

Seeing Through Space Time

 
2:20 - 2:40 Break
2:40 - 3:30
Edward Porter (Laboratoire Astroparticule & Cosmologie (APC))

A Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Algorithm for Bayesian Interference of CBC sources

 
3:30 - 3:40 Break
3:40 - 4:30

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Zvi Bern (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

High Post-Minkowskian Orders for Binary Systems
PDF Presentation

 
9:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:00
Serena Vinciguerra (Max Planck Institute für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut)

Accelerating CBC parameter estimation with multi-band frequency domain waveforms
PDF Presentation

 
11:00 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 12:10
12:10 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:20 - 4:00 Break
4:30 - 5:30 Please note different location: Korn Convocation Hall
Barry Barish (California Institute of Technology)

Public Lecture - Green Family Lecture Series: “Gravitational Waves and a Future New Science"

 
5:30 - 6:45 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Pablo Cerdá-Durán (University of Valencia)

Understanding GWs from core-collapse supernovae

 
9:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 12:10
Alejandro Torres-Forné (Max Planck Institute für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut)

Variational models and algorithms for GW denoising and reconstruction: applications

 
12:10 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:20
Barry Barish (California Institute of Technology)

Gravitational Waves from Detectors to Detection

 
2:20 - 2:40 Break
2:40 - 3:40 Panel Discussion

Friday, February 1, 2019

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
9:50 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:00
Hari Sundar (University of Utah)

Dendro-GR: Enabling Adaptivity & Parallelism for Computational Relativity
PDF Presentation

 
11:00 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 12:10