Name: GWPAW 2017
Start: 2017-05-30T12:20:00+02:00
End: 2017-06-02T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Impérial Palace

GWPAW 2017

from Tuesday, May 30, 2017 (12:20 PM) to Friday, June 2, 2017 (5:00 PM)

Monday, May 29, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

1:30 PM Registration

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Welcome
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Logistics - Frédérique MARION (LAPP)

2:10 PM Welcome by LAPP deputy director - Edwige Tournefier (CNRS)
2:20 PM News from the detectors: Session chair: Nobuyuki Kanda
Session chair: Nobuyuki Kanda
2:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:20 PM Detector status and observing runs - Michael Landry (LIGO)

2:55 PM The evolution of the ground based detectors - Sheila Rowan (University of Glasgow)

3:30 PM Matter wave interferometry for GW detection - Andrea Bertoldi (LP2N)
4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Un-modeled signals, Bursts: Session chair: Kipp Cannon
Session chair: Kipp Cannon
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Gravitational wave signatures from multi-dimensional core-collapse supernova models - Kei Kotake (Fukuoka University)

5:05 PM Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO - Francesco Salemi (AEI - Hannover)

5:20 PM Circular Polarizations of Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae: A Clear Indication of Rapid Rotation - Kazuhiro Hayam (KAGRA Observatory, ICRR, U tokyo)

5:35 PM Enhancing un-modeled gravitational wave searches sensitivity with Wavegraph - Philippe Bacon (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie)
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
8:45 AM Binary Black Hole Science: I; Session chair: Frederique Marion
I; Session chair: Frederique Marion
8:45 AM - 10:35 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Quasinormal modes of black holes: review and recent updates - Lionel London (Cardiff University)

9:20 AM Constructive summation of Quasi Normal Modes from a population of Binary Black Hole Mergers. - Carlos Filipe Da Silva Costa (INPE)

9:35 AM The effect of the choice of prior on measurements of binary black hole spins - Collin Capano (Albert Einstein Institute)

9:50 AM A “No-hair” test of binary black hole nature - Chandra Kant Mishra (IIT Madras)

10:05 AM The status of phenomenological inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform models - Sebastian Khan (AEI Hannover)

10:20 AM A new method for incorporating precession and higher-order modes in searches for compact binaries - Joshua Willis (Abilene Christian University)
10:35 AM Coffee break

10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM Binary Black Hole Science: II: Session chair: Chris Van Den Broeck
II: Session chair: Chris Van Den Broeck
11:05 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:05 AM How do black hole binaries form ? Studying stellar evolution with gravitational wave observations - Irina Dvorkin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

11:40 AM The formation of binary stellar black holes - Felix Mirabel (CEA-France & CONICET-Argentina)

11:55 AM Distinguishing between stellar and primordial black hole merger events - Letizia Sammut (Monash University)

12:10 PM Properties of Dynamically Formed Black Hole Binaries in Globular Clusters - Chunglee Kim (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI))
12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM In memoriam talk: A tribut to Neil Gehrels; Session chair: Peter Shawhan
A tribut to Neil Gehrels; Session chair: Peter Shawhan
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM How Neil Gehrels changed the field of transient astronomy - Paul O'Brien (University of Leicester)
2:20 PM Low frequency signals: Session chair: Ed Porter
Session chair: Ed Porter
2:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:20 PM Probing The Nanohertz Gravitational-wave Landscape With Pulsar Timing Arrays: A Status Report - Stephen Taylor (JPL)

2:55 PM The space detectors status and science - Rita Dolesi (University of Trento)
3:40 PM Poster parade

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Posters
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM A Riemann manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) for binary neutron star parameter estimation. - Yann Bouffanais (Laboratoire APC)

4:34 PM An improved semi-coherent follow-up method for FrequencyHough all-sky candidates - Sabrina D'Antonio (INFN Tor Vergata)

4:38 PM Fast localization with a hierarchical network of gravitational wave detectors - Yoshinori Fujii (U. of Tokyo / National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

4:46 PM Hierarchical data-driven approach to fitting waveform models for non-precessing binary black holes to numerical data - Sascha Husa (University of the Balearic Islands)

4:50 PM Enhancing binary neutron stars studies by combining inspiral and postmerger information - Tjonnie Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

4:54 PM X-PIPELINE: Gravitational-Wave Burst search applied to LIGO data - Elena Massera (University of Sheffield-LIGO scientific collaboration)

4:58 PM Mass-Radius Relation of Neutron Stars in a Scalar-Tensor Theory - Soichiro Morisaki (University of Tokyo)

5:06 PM Development of a Wide-Field CMOS Camera: Tomo-e Gozen and Contributions to EM Follow-up Observations of Gravitational Wave Events - Ryou Ohsawa (Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo)

5:10 PM New parameter estimation method being free from the bias depending on sky region for targeted GW search - Kenji Ono (ICRR)

5:14 PM Setting up a direct search for continuous gravitational wave signals using the Band Sample Data collection - Ornella Juliana Piccinni (University of Rome "La Sapienza" - INFN)

5:18 PM Estimation of starting times of quasi-normal modes in ringdown gravitational waves with the Hilbert-Huang transform - Kazuki Sakai (Nagaoka University of Technology)

5:22 PM Generalised resampling methodology for binary pulsars - akshat singhal (GSSI)

5:26 PM Physical Metric, Gravitational Waves and Dark Energy - Yukio Tomozawa (University of Michigan)

5:30 PM Extracting the post-merger gravitational wave signal from binary neutron stars - Maria Concetta Tringali (University of Trento and INFN-TIFPA)

5:34 PM Application of a zero-latency whitening filter to compact binary coalescence gravitational-wave searches - Leo Tsukada (The University of Tokyo)

5:38 PM Templated search for black hole echo signals in LIGO data - Julian Westerweck (AEI Hannover)

5:42 PM Study of Hilbert-Huang transform using iKAGRA injection data - Takaaki Yokozawa (Osaka City University)

5:46 PM Looking for truffles in trash: The new DMoff veto in Einstein@Home searches for continuous gravitational waves - Sylvia Zhu (Albert Einstein Institute)

5:50 PM Cocktail
Thursday, June 1, 2017
8:45 AM Testing GR: Session chair: Damir Buskulic
Session chair: Damir Buskulic
8:45 AM - 10:35 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Testing gravity with binary black hole coalescences: results and prospects - Walter Del Pozzo (Universitá di Pisa)

9:20 AM Echoes from the Abyss: Evidence for Planck-scale structure at black hole horizons - Jahed Abedi (Sharif University of Technology)

9:35 AM Analysing gravitational wave data for black hole echoes - Alex Nielsen (MPI for Gravitational Phys)

9:50 AM Questions for the two previous talks - Alex Nielsen (MPI for Gravitational Phys) Jahed Abedi (Sharif University of Technology)

10:05 AM Ringdown and echoes as probes of strong-field dynamics of general relativity - Archisman Ghosh (Nikhef)

10:20 AM Constraining Lorentz violations using gravitational wave observations - Anuradha Samajdar (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata) Chris Van Den Broeck (National Institute for Subatomic Physics)
10:35 AM Coffee break

10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM New Data Analysis Methods: Session chair: Benoit Mours
Session chair: Benoit Mours
11:05 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:05 AM Calibration, Data Quality and Vetos: now and the upcoming challenges - Duncan Brown (Syracuse University)

11:40 AM KAGRA calibration and waveform accuracy - Yuki Inoue (Academia Sinica, Institute of Physics)

11:55 AM All-Sky Searches for Compact Binary Mergers: The Engines of Detection - Thomas Dent (AEI Hannover)

12:10 PM Are we missing the most interesting binary mergers? - Ian Harry (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
12:30 PM Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM SOC meeting
2:00 PM Continuous Waves and Stochastic Signals: Session chair: Cristiano Palomba
Session chair: Cristiano Palomba
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM The detection of Continuous Gravitational Waves in the Advanced Detector Era - Paola Leaci (Sapienza University and INFN)

2:35 PM Searching for the stochastic gravitational-wave background with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo - Nelson Christensen (Artemis)

3:10 PM Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in advanced LIGO data - Sinéad Walsh (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

3:25 PM Hunting the oxymoron: transient continuous waves from disturbed neutron stars - David Keitel (University of Glasgow)

3:40 PM Searches for Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 with Advanced LIGO - John Whelan (Rochester Institute of Technology)
4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Binary Black Hole Science: III; Session chair: Bruce Allen
III; Session chair: Bruce Allen
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Binary black hole observations with Advanced LIGO - Chad Hanna (Penn State)

5:05 PM Binary black hole spins - Christopher Berry (University of Birmingham)

5:20 PM Testing the area theorem with gravitational wave signals - Miriam Cabero Mueller (Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)

5:35 PM Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves - Tjonnie Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
7:00 PM Dinner

7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Friday, June 2, 2017
8:45 AM Binary Systems with Neutron Stars: Session chair: Tania Regimbau
Session chair: Tania Regimbau
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Neutron stars astrophysics - Freire Paulo (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

9:20 AM Measuring neutron star tidal deformability with Advanced LIGO: a Bayesian analysis of neutron star - black hole binary observations - Michael Pürrer (AEI)

9:35 AM Structure of binary neutron star merger remnants - Wolfgang Kastaun (AEI Hannover)

9:50 AM Constraining BNS merger rates and X-ray counterpart models with existing data - Serena Vinciguerra (University of Birmingham)

10:05 AM Results and Prospects of the Search for Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Binaries and Neutron Star-Black Hole Binaries - Steven Reyes (Syracuse University / LIGO)
10:30 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Multi-messenger: I; Session chair: Gianluca Guidi
I; Session chair: Gianluca Guidi
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM How do gravitational wave sources look electromagnetically? - Stephan Rosswog (Stockholm University)

11:35 AM GRBs and Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events - Om Sharan Salafia (INAF)

12:10 PM Probing the intrinsic properties of short gamma-ray bursts using joint gravitational wave observations - Christopher Messenger (University of Glasgow)
12:30 PM Lunch

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Multi-messenger: II; Session chair: Peter Shawhan
II; Session chair: Peter Shawhan
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Gravitational-wave transient candidate alerts: prospect and challenges for the multi-messenger astronomy - Marica Branchesi (Università di Urbino/INFN-Sezione di Firenze)

2:35 PM The SVOM mission in the multi-messenger era - Sarah Antier (LAL)

2:50 PM Optimal follow-up observations of gravitational wave events with small optical telescopes - Tatsuya Narikawa (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

3:05 PM Estimating short gamma-ray burst luminosities in conjunction with gravitational wave observations - Ik Siong Heng (University of Glasgow)
3:20 PM Closure: Session chair: Peter Shawhan
Session chair: Peter Shawhan
3:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

3:20 PM Poster prize talk: Mass-Radius Relation of Neutron Stars in a Scalar-Tensor Theory - Soichiro Morisaki (Research Center for the Early Universe, the University of Tokyo, Japan.)

3:30 PM Poster prize talk: Estimation of starting times of quasi-normal modes in ringdown gravitational waves with the Hilbert-Huang transform - Kazuki Sakai (Nagaoka University of Technology)

3:40 PM Poster prize talk: Looking for truffles in trash: The new DMoff veto in Einstein@Home searches for continuous gravitational waves - Sylvia Zhu (Albert Einstein Institute)

3:50 PM Workshop highlights - Alan Weinstein (Caltech)

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