Program
Talks are 15min each with 3 minutes for questions.
U = Undergraduate Student Talk
G = Graduate Student Talk
Jump to Session: Friday-AM1 | Friday-AM2 | Friday-PM1 | Friday-PM2 | Saturday-AM1 | Saturday-AM2 | Saturday-PM1
Friday, October 4th
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Speaker |
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8:00-8:45 |
Arrival and Registration |
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8:45-9:00 |
Welcoming Remarks |
Frederick Antczak, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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Session 1 |
Chair: Bob Wald (UChicago) |
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Numerical binary black hole collisions in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity |
Leo Stein (Mississippi) |
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Modeling Subgrid MHD Turbulence with Artificial Neural Networks (G) |
Shawn Rosofsky (UIUC) |
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Magnetic Braking and Damping of Differential Rotation in Massive Stars (G) |
Lunan Sun (UIUC) |
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Effects of spin on magnetized binary neutron star mergers and jet launching |
Milton Ruiz (UIUC) |
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Dynamically stable ergostars |
Antonios Tsokaros (UIUC) |
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10:30-10:50 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 2 |
Chair: Leo Stein (Mississippi) |
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Spin Self-Force (G) |
Kristian Mackewicz (UChicago) |
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EMRI Waveforms: Efficient Self-Force Calculations |
Anna Heffernan (Perimeter & Guelph) |
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Finite Size Effects On The Self-Force (G) |
Klaountia Pasmatsiou (Case Western Reserve) |
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Dynamical gravitomagnetic tidal response of a rotating, barotropic star (G) |
Simon Pekar (Perimeter & Guelph) |
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Black hole hairstyle excitations (G) |
Pablo Bosch Gomez (Perimeter & Waterloo) |
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12:20-2:10 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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Session 3 |
Chair: Timothy Dolch (Hillsdale) |
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Generating Physically Realistic Neutron Star Initial Data (U) |
Grace Fiacco (RIT) and Trung Ha (Rochester) |
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Microgravity Effects in Human Body (U) |
Tanmoy Chakraborty (Zhengzhou Univ) |
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Solving Time Travel Paradoxes (U) |
Jacob Hauser (Pomona) |
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Signal Overlays for Evaluating Continuous Gravitational Wave Candidates (U) |
Grant Weldon (Michigan) |
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3:25-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 4 |
Chair: Brett Bolen |
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Thermodynamics of Lorentzian Taub-NUT spacetimes (G) |
Alvaro Ballon Bordo (Perimeter) |
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The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Pulsar Timing Array |
Timothy Dolch (Hillsdale) |
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Constraining Galaxy Merger Histories in the Local Universe with Pulsar Timing Arrays |
Sarah Vigeland (UW Milwaukee) |
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Active Galactic Nuclei: Laboratory for Gravitational Physics |
Ashkbiz Danehkar (Michigan) |
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Cosmic expansion from spinning black holes (G) |
Chi Tian (Case Western Reserve) |
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Applications of Machine Learning to Gravitational Physics (G) |
Tim Whittaker (Perimeter & Waterloo) |
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5:35-8:00 |
Dinner (on your own) |
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8:00-9:00 |
Public Lecture: Black Hole Myths and Mysteries (Loosemore Auditorium, DeVos) |
Leo Stein, University of Mississippi |
Saturday, October 5th
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Title |
Speaker |
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Session 5 |
Chair: Sarah Vigeland (UWM) |
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Environment effects in multi-band detections of black hole binaries (G) |
Laura Sberna (Perimeter) |
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Can environment effects spoil detection of stellar-origin massive black hole binaries? (G) |
Alexandre Toubiana (APC/IAP, Paris) |
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Testing exotic cosmology models with future Gravitational Wave siren data (G) |
Maxence Corman (Perimeter) |
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The Memory Effect and Infrared Divergences in Quantum Gravity (G) |
Gautam Satishchandran (UChicago) |
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Determination of The Static Scalar and Electromagnetic Self-Force From Conical Singularities (G) |
Michael LaHaye (Guelph) |
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10:30-10:50 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 6 |
Chair: Shane Larson (CIERA/Northwestern) |
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Testing Lorentz violation in the Earth's gravitational field (G) |
Zonghao Li (Indiana) |
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Local and covariant flow relations for OPE coefficients in curved spacetime (G) |
Mark Klehfoth (UChicago) |
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Lorentz Transformations and Existence in Minkowski Spacetime |
Armin Nikkhah Shirazi (Michigan) |
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On the relationship between symmetry of metric and symmetry of matter (G) |
Fatemeh Bagheri (Texas - Arlington) |
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Spacetime Decomposition Methods for GR (G) |
Soham Mukherjee (Perimeter) |
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12:20-2:10 |
Lunch (on your own) |
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2:10-2:30 |
Coffee and Blue Apple Award Ceremony (Best Student Talk) |
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Session 7 |
Chair: Ben Holder (GVSU) |
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Solid state analogs for LQG and string theory |
Stephen Harnish (Bluffton) |
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General Relativity and the Dirac Equation |
Thomas Brennan (Ferris State) |
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LISA as a Probe of Stellar Astrophysics |
Shane L. Larson (CIERA/Northwestern) |
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Asteroid effects on LISA |
Brett Bolen (GVSU) |
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3+1 Decomposition of General Relativity for a Scalar Field Using Mathematica |
George E. Hrabovsky (MAST) |
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Meta Relativity |
Rick DeWitt |
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4:20-4:30 |
Wrap-up and Farewell |