Week 1 conference | Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics

KSPA 2017 Conference: Astrophysics With Gravitational Wave Detections

Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, July 10th-July 14th.

A conference is hosted in the first week of the Kavli Summer Program, and features invited pedagogical lectures and contributed talks presenting state-of-the-art research on the program topic.

The lectures will be video-recorded, and meant for a broad scientific audience. Lectures are available at: lectures

Scientific Program

All the talks will be hosted in the auditorium of the NBI.

Monday July 10th

9:00 am - 9:30 am: Registration
10:00 am - 10:30 am: Welcome, opening remarks
10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Lecture

Cole Miller, Lecture 1.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Project presentations
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch, project discussions
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Lecture

Will Farr, Lecture 1.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Afternoon Break
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Project presentations
5:30 pm - onward: Welcome Reception.

Tuesday July 11th

10:00 am - 11:30 am: Lecture

Deirdre Shoemaker, Lecture 1.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Coffee Break
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Project presentations
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch, project discussions
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Lecture

Cole Miller, Lecture 2.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Afternoon Break
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Talk

Evan O'Connor

Wednesday July 12th

10:00 am - 11:30 am: Lecture

Deirdre Shoemaker, Lecture 2.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Coffee break
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Talk

Melvyn Davies : mbdcopenhagen2017talk.pdf

Afternoon free

Thursday July 13th

10:00 am - 11:30 am: Lecture

Will Farr, Lecture 2.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Coffee Break
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Talk
- Stephen Justham
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch, project discussions
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Lecture

Deirdre Shoemaker, Lecture 3.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Afternoon Break
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Talk

Silvia Piranomonte

Friday July 14th

10:00 am - 11:30 am: Lecture

Cole Miller, Lecture 3.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Coffee Break
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Talk
- Jonathan Gair
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch, project discussions
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Lecture

Will Farr, Lecture 3.

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Pizza reception

Will Farr

Lecture notes and tutorials

The syllabus contains some required reading and describes some software that need to be installed.
Material will be archived (including any created during the lectures as part of the course) at: https://github.com/farr/GWDataAnalysisSummerSchool

Recorded lectures