Conference Program
Invited talks/panels marked with *
Program is in AEDT — Australian Eastern Daylight Time
Function Rooms:
ASA: Arthur Streeton Auditorium
AF: Auditorium Foyer
FBR: Fitzroy Ballroom
LTB: Latrobe Ballroom
PR: Promenade
Monday, 5 December
8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration | PR |
9:00 – 9:10 am | Welcome remarks | ASA |
9:10 – 9:50 am | Opening talk: How gravitational wave astronomy is stimulating development in other fields, Yuri Levin * | ASA |
9:50 – 10:10 am | Combining Gravitational Waves and EM constraints on binary evolution, Jan Eldridge * | ASA |
10:10 – 10:30 am | NS EOS with GWs, Paul Lasky * | ASA |
10:30 – 11:00 am | Coffee break | FBR |
11:00 – 11:30 am | Search and parameter estimation pipelines and future improvements, Teja Nerella * | ASA |
11:30 – 12:00 pm | ASA | |
12:00 – 2:00 pm | Lunch break | FBR |
2:00 – 2:15 pm | Do black holes play overtones? Vishal Baibhav | ASA |
2:15 – 2:30 pm | Highlights from MeerKAT observations of pulsars, Matthew Bailes | ASA |
2:30 – 2:45 pm | Systematic uncertainties of bright standard sirens, Hsin-Yu Chen (Virtual) | ASA |
2:45 – 3:00 pm | Search for Gravitational Waves from Vector Ultralight Bosons, Dana Jones | ASA |
3:00 – 3:30 pm | Key results from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, Greg Ashton * | ASA |
3:30 – 4:00 pm | Coffee break | FBR |
4:00 – 4:15 pm | Lost in translation: decoding the eccentric biographies of black hole binaries, Isobel Romero-Shaw | ASA |
4:15 - 4:30 pm | The Uncertain Formation Channels of Gravitational Wave Sources, Floor Broekgaarden | ASA |
4:30 – 4:45 pm | Towards high-precision gravitational-wave astronomy, Vivien Raymond | ASA |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Searching for Intermittent Gravitational-wave Backgrounds, Arianna Renzini | ASA |
5:00 pm | Adjourn |
Tuesday, 6 December
9:00 – 9:20 am | Cosmology with GWs, Tamara Davis * | ASA |
9:20 – 9:50 am | GRB+GW overview, Resmi Lekshmi (Virtual) * | ASA |
9:50 – 10:30 am | Panel discussion of jet launching mechanism, jet structure, shock breakout: Davide Lazzati, Gavin Lamb, Agnieszka Janiuk, Kunihito Ioka * | Moderator: Kate Alexander* | ASA |
10:30 – 11:00 am | Coffee break | FBR |
11:00 – 11:15 am | A non-parametric tour of the compact binary population, Tom Callister (Virtual) | ASA |
11:15 – 11:30 am | Fast parameter estimation using intuitive understanding of gravitational-wave signals, Stephen Fairhurst | ASA |
11:30 – 12:00 pm | ASA | |
12:00 – 2:00 pm | Lunch break | FBR |
2:00 – 2:30 pm | Population modelling: phenomenological choices, model misspecification, Salvatore Vitale * | ASA |
2:30 – 2:45 pm | Defining eccentricity for gravitational wave astronomy, Md Arif Shaikh | ASA |
2:45 – 3:00 pm | Modeling the Dynamics of Compact Objects in Globular Clusters, Kyle Kremer | ASA |
3:00 – 3:15 pm | Formation mechanisms of GW190521-like and GW190412-like events from Population III binary stars, Ataru Tanikawa | ASA |
3:15 – 3:30 pm | Crucial Insights on NS Merger Counterpart Diversity from Observations of GRBs, Jillian Rastinejad | ASA |
3:30 – 4:00 pm | Coffee break | FBR |
4:00 – 4:20 pm | PTA results, Ryan Shannon * | ASA |
4:20 – 4:40 pm | Common envelope evolution, Mike Lau * | ASA |
4:40 – 5:00 pm | Stellar Winds, Andreas Sander * | ASA |
5:00 pm | Adjourn |
Wednesday, 7 December
9:00 – 9:20 am | Tools to facilitate EM follow-up, Andy Howell * | ASA |
9:20 – 10:00 am | Panel discussion of instruments for following up future GW detections: Katie Auchettl, Susanna Vergani, Andrew Levan, Kate Alexander * | Moderator: Iair Arcavi * | ASA |
10:00 – 10:15 am | Binary black hole mergers in young, globular, and nuclear star clusters, Marco Dall’Amico (Virtual) | ASA |
10:15 – 10:30 am | Modeling Cocoon Emission: The Final Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves, Kunihito Ioka | ASA |
10:30 – 11:00 am | Coffee break | FBR |
11:00 – 11:40 am | Panel discussion on the interpretation of results, handling different pipelines, populations & exceptional events: Ryan Magee, Isobel Romero-Shaw, Javier Roulet, Alex Nitz * |Moderator: Mike Zevin* | ASA |
11:40 – 11:55 am | Multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star mergers in the O4 run, Alberto Colombo | ASA |
11:55 – 12:10 pm | Disks, spikes, and clouds: distinguishing between environmental effects around binary black holes, Philippa Cole | ASA |
12:10 – 12:25 pm | A global p-astro for gravitational-waves: consistently combining information from multiple search pipelines, Sharan Banagiri | ASA |
12:25 – 12:40 pm | The LIGO-Virgo O3 run and the multi-messenger observations, Rosa Poggiani (Virtual) | ASA |
12:40 – 1:00 pm | ASA | |
1:00 pm | Adjourn |
Thursday, 8 December
9:00 – 9:15 am | Probing the Milky Way gamma-ray excess with continuous gravitational waves in O3 LIGO–Virgo data, Ornella Juliana Piccinni | ASA |
9:15 – 9:30 am | Probing mental health in academia in the field of multi-messenger astrophysics, Kamiel Janssens | ASA |
9:30 – 9:45 am | Population properties and multimessenger prospects of neutron star-black hole mergers following GWTC-3, Sylvia Biscoveanu | ASA |
9:45 – 10:00 am | Binary stellar evolution using the flurry of Galactic compact binaries detected by LISA, Lucy McNeill | ASA |
10:00 – 10:15 am | A new formalism for common-envelope phases of massive stars, Ryosuke Hirai | ASA |
10:15 – 10:30 am | No peaks without valleys; Understanding the peak at the low-mass end of the binary black hole mass distribution, Lieke van Son | ASA |
10:30 -11:00 am | Coffee break | FBR |
11:00 – 11:30 am | Kilonova Theory, Kyohei Kawaguchi * | ASA |
11:30 – 12:00 pm | Kilonova Observations, Maria Drout (Virtual) * | ASA |
12:00 – 2:00 pm | Lunch break | FBR |
2:00 – 2:40 pm | Panel discussion on how to handle large alert streams, Gemma Anderson, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Anais Moller, Simon O’Toole* | Moderator: Iair Arcavi * | ASA |
2:40 – 3:00 pm | Metallicity specific star formation history: theory and observations, Chiaki Kobayashi * | ASA |
3:00 – 3:15 pm | Lessons learned from the evolution of non-thermal emission from GW170817, Aprajita Hajela | ASA |
3:15 – 3:30 pm | Unveiling gamma-ray burst jet properties with radio observations, James Leung | ASA |
3:30 – 4:00 pm | Coffee break | |
4:00 – 4:30 pm | NS merger simulations, Daniel Siegel * | ASA |
4:30 – 4:45 pm | BRIGHT: A Legacy Sample of Short GRB Hosts with Implications for Neutron Star Merger Evolution and GW Follow-Up, Anya Nugent | ASA |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Non-LTE analysis of Helium and Strontium line signatures in kilonovae, Yuta Tarumi | ASA |
5:00 pm | Adjourn | |
6:00 – 7:00 pm | Poster viewing and pre-drinks | FBR |
7:00 pm | Conference dinner | LTB |
Friday, 9 December
9:00 – 9:20 am | Current / near future ground-based detectors, David Ottaway * | ASA |
9:20 – 9:40 am | Longer-term future ground-based detectors (3G), Bram Slagmolen * | ASA |
9:40 – 10:00 am | Tests of GR with GWs, Anuradha Gupta * | ASA |
10:00 – 10:15 am | Will pulsar timing arrays observe the Hellings-Downs correlation curve? Bruce Allen | ASA |
10:15 – 10:30 am | On the effectiveness of null TDI channels as instrument noise monitors in LISA, Martina Muratore | ASA |
10:30 – 11:00 am | Coffee break | FBR |
11:00 – 11:15 am | Low-latency and optimal sky localization of binary neutron star mergers for LIGO- Virgo-KAGRA’s fourth observing run, Rory Smith | ASA |
11:15 – 11: 30 am | Application of the Hilbert-Huang transform for analyzing gravitational waves in a core-collapse supernova, Hirotaka Takahashi (Virtual) | ASA |
11:30 – 11:45 am | Coming soon: GW follow-up with Vera Rubin Observatory, Igor Andreoni (Virtual) | ASA |
11:45 – 12:00 pm | Circumbinary Disk Torques as a function of Binary Eccentricity and Mass Ratio, Magdalena Siwek | ASA |
12:00 – 2:00 pm | Lunch break | FBR |
2:00 – 2:20 pm | Core collapse & supernova kicks, Bernhard Müller * | ASA |
2:20 – 2:40 pm | Inferring supernova kicks from Gaia, DNSs and XRBs, Jeff Andrews * | ASA |
2:40 – 3:00 pm | Nuclear astrophysics with GWs, Sanjay Reddy (Virtual) * | ASA |
3:00 – 3:15 pm | Measurement of precession in a black-hole binary, Mark Hannam | ASA |
3:15 – 3:30 pm | Efficient neural network emulation of complex physical models for gamma-ray burst afterglows, Oliver Boersma | ASA |
3:30 – 4:00 pm | Coffee break | FBR |
4:00 – 4:15 pm | Evidence for subdominant multipole moments and precession in merging black hole binaries from GWTC-3, Charlie Hoy | ASA |
4:15 – 4:30 pm | Methods to verify a nHz Gravitational-wave background detection, Patrick Meyers (Virtual) | ASA |
4:30 – 4:45pm | Do X-ray binaries end up as LIGO/Virgo sources? Iwona Kotko | ASA |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Model exploration in gravitational-wave astronomy with the maximum population likelihood, Ethan Payne | ASA |
5:00 pm | Adjourn |