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

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

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
09:00-09:00
Session Chair: Katerina Chatziioannou (Caltech)
09:00-09:15
Katerina Chatziioannou (California Institute of Technology)
Introduction to Single Source Inference
09:15-09:55
Tyson Littenberg (NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center)
Virtual Talk: Building flexible, but not too flexible, models of gravitational wave data
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

Afternoon Session

12:40-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:15
Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Supermassive Black Holes and Merging Galaxies: Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection with Pulsar Timing Arrays
15:25-15:40
Break
15:40-16:30
Discussion
16:30-16:40
Lightning Poster Presentations
16:40-18:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
Session Chair: Jose Antonio Font (University of Valencia)
09:00-09:15
Salvatore Vitale (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: Introduction to Population Inference
09:15-09:55
Michela Mapelli (University of Padova)
Virtual Talk: Astrophysical models of binary compact objects: open questions and main uncertainties
10:05-10:30
Break
10:30-11:10
Rachel Gray (Queen Mary University of London)
Virtual Talk: Cosmology with dark sirens: attempting to solve the Hubble constant tension
11:20-11:45
Break
11:45-12:30
Maya Fishbach (Northwestern University)
Black hole astrophysics with gravitational-wave catalogs

Afternoon Session

12:40-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:15
Colm Talbot (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adventures in practical population inference
15:25-15:40
Break
15:40-16:30
Discussion

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
Session Chair: Alejandro Torres-Forné (University of Valencia)
09:00-09:45
Stephen Green (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert Einstein Institute)
Real-time gravitational-wave parameter estimation using machine learning
09:55-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Scott Field (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Virtual Talk: Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation with Compressed Likelihood Evaluations
11:05-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Joshua Speagle (University of Toronto)
Virtual Talk: A Brief Introduction to Nested Sampling

Afternoon Session

12:20-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-02:45
Dan Foreman-Mackey (Flatiron Institute)
Methods for scalable probabilistic inference
14:55-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
Kyle Cranmer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Simulation-based Inference for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
16:10-16:25
Break
16:25-17:00
Discussion

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
Session Chair: Geraint Pratten (University of Birmingham)
09:00-09:40
Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Virtual Talk: Searching for Ultra-Light Bosons with Black Hole Superradiance
09:50-10:15
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

Afternoon Session

12:25-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Jose Antonio Font (University of Valencia)
Inference with core-collapse supernova waveforms
14:55-15:15
Break
15:15-15:55
Ling Sun (Australian National University)
Virtual Talk: Tracking a continuous gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model
16:05-16:25
Break
16:25-17:00
Discussion

Friday, November 19, 2021

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:00
Session Chair: Patricia Schmidt (University of Birmingham)
09:00-09:15
Patricia Schmidt (University of Birmingham)
Introduction to Systematics
09:15-10:00
Geraint Pratten (University of Birmingham)
Waveform Systematics and Binary Black Holes
10:10-10:30
Break
10:30-11:10
Rossella Gamba (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)
Virtual Talk: Waveform systematics in the gravitational-wave inference of tidal parameters and equation of state from binary neutron star signals
11:20-11:45
Break
11:45-12:30
Sylvia Biscoveanu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Effect of Power Spectral Density Uncertainty on Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation

Afternoon Session

12:40-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Ben Farr (University of Oregon)
Virtual Talk: Nobody Likes a Glitch
15:20-15:40
Break
15:40-16:30
Discussion
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