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Black Holes Across the Gravitational Wave Spectrum

Workshop | Monday, July 31, 2017 - Friday, August 11, 2017

Directors: Walter Del Pozzo, Riccardo Sturani, Michele Vallisneri
Date Time Speakers Name Talk Title

Monday

July 31, 2017

09:30 am - 10:00 am

REGISTRATION

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

John Veitch
Invited Lecturers

Birmingham University (United Kingdom)

Testing GR with GW observations from binary coalescence

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

02:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Soichiro Isoyama
Invited speaker

IIP-UFRN (Japan)

Bridging the gap between fundamental gravity theory and binary waveform predictions

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Coffee Break

04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Massimo Tinto
Invited speaker

CASS-University of California at San Diego (United States of America)

How do we detect GW signals from binary coalescences in the presence of instrumental noise and "gravitational wave noises” of astrophysical nature?

Tuesday

August 01, 2017

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Bangalore Sathyaprakash
Invited speaker

Penn State University (United States of America)

Complementarities between space- and ground-based observations of BH binaries of 10 to 100 solar masses

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

02:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Chris Messenger
Invited speaker

Glasgow University (United Kingdom)

Data analysis for 3rd generation detectors using deep neural networks

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Coffee Break

04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Bangalore Sathyaprakash
Invited speaker

Penn State University (United States of America)

LIGO observations and binary black hole coalescence rate

Wednesday

August 02, 2017

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

John Veitch
Invited speaker

Birmingham University (United Kingdom)

Gaussian process in GW modeling

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

02:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Stephen Taylor
Invited speaker

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (United States of America)

Super massive binary black holes astrophysics probed by Pular Timing Aarray

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Coffee Break

04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Stephen Taylor
Invited speaker

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (United States of America)

Super massive binary black holes astrophysics probed by Pular Timing Aarray

Thursday

August 03, 2017

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

John Veitch
Invited speaker

Birmingham University (United Kingdom)

Efficient stochastic sampling of high-dimensional parameter space

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

Friday

August 04, 2017

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Stephen Taylor
Invited speaker

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (United States of America)

Efficient modeling of stochastic signals in Bayesian pulsar-timing analysis, and whether such methods are possible for LIGO/LISA analysis

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

02:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Chris Messenger
Invited Lecturers

Glasgow University (United Kingdom)

Luminosity-distance relationship without electromagnetic counterparts

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Coffee Break

Monday

August 07, 2017

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Giovanni Marozzi
Invited speaker

CBPF (Brazil)

Cosmology with the geodesic light-cone coordinates: formalism and applications

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

02:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Riccardo Sturani
Invited speaker

International Institute of Physics (Brazil)

Binary coalescence from primordial black holes

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Coffee Break

Tuesday

August 08, 2017

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Stephen Taylor
Invited speaker

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (United States of America)

Constraints on early-Universe physics/DM with PTAs through probes of primordial GWs

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

02:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Massimo Tinto
Invited speaker

CASS-University of California at San Diego (United States of America)

The scientific case for for a space-based mission to complement LISAs and LIGOs observations?

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Coffee Break

04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Colloquium

07:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Conference dinner

Wednesday

August 09, 2017

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Riccardo Sturani
Invited speaker

International Institute of Physics (Brazil)

Spin measurements and binary formation channels

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Student Presentation

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

Thursday

August 10, 2017

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

M. Tinto and J. Veitch
Invited speaker

San Diego University (United States of America)

Can one apply LIGO parameter estimation methods to LISA or something fundamentally different shuold be thought of?

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm

Coffee Break

Friday

August 11, 2017

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Summary & Closeout