Louisiana State University, the DOE’s Los Alamos National Lab and Center for Nuclear Astrophysics Across Messengers, NASA’s Physics of the Cosmos Program, and possible future sponsors are happy to announce the workshop Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era. The workshop will be hosted at the Lod Cook Alumni Center and Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 23-26 September 2024.

The workshop goals are to identify opportunities in multidisciplinary studies across the physics disciplines, both from other disciplines to astrophysics and from astrophysics to other disciplines.  The motivation includes the maturation of astrophysical observations surpassing the fidelity of simplified models. We invite the community to review the current state of resources in the relevant fields, reporting on existing collaborations and partnerships which cross disciplines, and identify barriers to multidisciplinary research. Billions of dollars of taxpayer money are being spent on major physics and astronomy facilities. This workshop aims to understand how their scientific return can be maximized through alignment of existing initiatives, facilities, and mechanisms and, if necessary, suggest the creation of new ones. Lastly, we ask the participants to conceive of methods to sustain growth in this area.

This workshop is the third in a series inspired by the Astro2020 Decadal’s report identification of time-domain and multimessenger astronomy as a key priority area this decade. NASA’s Time Domain and Multi-Messenger (TDAMM) Astrophysics workshop held in August 2022, which produced a white paper available here, presented to NASA’s APAC FACA Committee. The second was NSF’s Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem workshop held in October 2023, which produced a white paper available here, presented to the AAAC FACA Committee which advises NSF, NASA, and DOE. This workshop aims to also respond to the long range planning documents of other disciplines, including the 2023 Nuclear Long Range Plan, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel report, and the 2020 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics and 2021 Plasma Physics Decadals.