Workshop III: Source inference and parameter estimation in Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Part of the Long Program Mathematical and Computational Challenges in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
November 15 - 19, 2021

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, November 15, 2021

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)

Session Chair: Katerina Chatziioannou (Caltech)
9:00 - 9:15
Katerina Chatziioannou (California Institute of Technology)

Introduction to Single Source Inference

 
9:15 - 9:55
10:05 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15
Kristen Lackeos (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

LISA and the global analysis of galactic binary gravitational wave signals

 
11:25 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:30
Arianna Renzini (California Institute of Technology)

Stochastic background searches in GW experiments
PDF Presentation

 
12:40 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:15
3:25 - 3:40 Break
3:40 - 4:30 Discussion
4:30 - 4:40 Lightning Poster Presentations
4:40 - 6:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

Session Chair: Jose Antonio Font (University of Valencia)
9:00 - 9:15
Salvatore Vitale (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Virtual Talk: Introduction to Population Inference

 
9:15 - 9:55
10:05 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:10
11:20 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:30
Maya Fishbach (Northwestern University)

Black hole astrophysics with gravitational-wave catalogs
PDF Presentation

 
12:40 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:15
Colm Talbot (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Adventures in practical population inference

 
3:25 - 3:40 Break
3:40 - 4:30 Discussion

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

Session Chair: Alejandro Torres-Forné (University of Valencia)
9:00 - 9:45
Stephen Green (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute)

Real-time gravitational-wave parameter estimation using machine learning
PDF Presentation

 
9:55 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
11:05 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
Joshua Speagle (University of Toronto)

Virtual Talk: A Brief Introduction to Nested Sampling
PDF Presentation

 
12:20 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
Dan Foreman-Mackey (Flatiron Institute)

Methods for scalable probabilistic inference
PDF Presentation

 
2:55 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00
4:10 - 4:25 Break
4:25 - 5:00 Discussion

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

Session Chair: Geraint Pratten (University of Birmingham)
9:00 - 9:40
Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Virtual Talk: Searching for Ultra-Light Bosons with Black Hole Superradiance

 
9:50 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Juan Calderon-Bustillo (University of Santiago de Compostela)

The challenge of characterising high-mass compact mergers: the case of GW190521

 
11:10 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Jocelyn Read (California State University, Fullerton (CSU Fullerton))

Gravitational-wave observations of neutron-star mergers

 
12:25 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
Jose Antonio Font (University of Valencia)

Inference with core-collapse supernova waveforms
PDF Presentation

 
2:55 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:55
4:05 - 4:25 Break
4:25 - 5:00 Discussion

Friday, November 19, 2021

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)

Session Chair: Patricia Schmidt (University of Birmingham)
9:00 - 9:15
Patricia Schmidt (University of Birmingham)

Introduction to Systematics

 
9:15 - 10:00
Geraint Pratten (University of Birmingham)

Waveform Systematics and Binary Black Holes

 
10:10 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:10
11:20 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:30
12:40 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:10
Ben Farr (University of Oregon)

Virtual Talk: Nobody Likes a Glitch

 
3:20 - 3:40 Break
3:40 - 4:30 Discussion