Program Schedule

Week 1

See the Conference program page

 


Week 2 

Monday:

  • 10:00 - 10:30 : Agnieska Janiuk: Relativistic Hydrodynamical Models of Compact Objects
  • 10:40 - 11:10 : Irene Tamborra: Modelling supernova neutrinos
  • 11:20 - 11:50: Discussions

 

Wednesday

  • 10:00-10:30: Chris Fryer: Opacities and r-process Nucleosynthesis
  • 10:40-11:10: Stefan Rosswog:  Numerical Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers
  • 11:20 -11:50: Phil Macias and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: r-process Enrichment

 

Friday

  • 10:00-10:30: Phillipp Podsiadlowski: Binary Evolution Primer
  • 10:40-11:10: Tassos Fragos: X-ray Binaries
  • 11:20 - 11:50: Discussions

 


Week 3 

Monday:

  • 10:00-10:30: Erin O'Sullivan: Neutrino Observations
  • 10:40-11:10: Meng-Ru Wu: Kilonovae and Nucleosynthesis
  • 11:20 - 11:50: Discussions

 

Wednesday

  • 10:00-10:30: Duncan Brown:  Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
  • 10:40-11:10: Carl Haster: Parameter Estimation on Gravitational Waves
  • 11:20 - 11:50: Discussions

 

Friday

  • 10:00-10:30: Daniel Holz: Gravitational Wave Cosmology
  • 10:40-11:10: Chris Belczynski: Population Synthesis of Massive Stellar Binaries
  • 11:20-11:50: Josiah Schwab: Massive Stellar Evolution

 


Week 4

Monday:

  • 10:00-10:30: Jess McIyver: Gravitational-wave detectors
  • 10:40-11:10: Joey Shapiro Key: Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds
  • 11:20-11:50: Discussions

 

Wednesday

  • 10:00-10:30: Jeandrew Brink: Testing general relativity with gravitational waves
  • 10:40-11:10: Ben Farr: Gravitational-wave spin measurements
  • 11:20-11:50: Discussions

 

Friday

  • 10:00-10:30: Morgan McLeod: Common envelope physics
  • 10:30-11:30: Nicole Lloyd Ronning: Modelling supernovae
  • 11:20-11:50: Discussions

 


Week 5 

Monday:

  • 10:00-10:30: Carl Rodriguez: Dynamical formation of binary black holes
  • 10:40-11:10: Johan Samsing: Eccentric compact object binaries
  • 11:20-11:50: Discussions

 

Wednesday

  • 10:00-10:30: Ross Church: Mass transfer in compact binaries
  • 10:40-11:10: Alex Nielsen: Searching for deviations from general relativity
  • 11:20-11:50: Discussions

 

 

Friday

  • 10:00-10:30: Ryan Foley: Electromagnetic transient searches
  • 10:40-11:10: Phillip Moesta: Numerical simulations of stellar explosions
  • 11:20-11:50: Discussions

 


Week 6: Fellows Presentations. 

Monday

  • 10:00-10:20: Floor Broekgaarden. "Efficient sampling of the initial binary parameter space for population synthesis"
  • 10:20-10:40: Luke Kelley. "Astrophysics with astrometric detection of gravitational waves "
  • 10:40-11:00: Ron Tso. "Mapping the weak lensing potential using decihertz gravitational wave sources"
  • 11:00-11:20: Mads Sorensen. "Gravitational Wave Probes of Supernovae"
  • 11:20-11:40: John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider. "Neutrinos and gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae: Constraints on the supernova progenitor properties "

Tuesday

  • 10:00-10:20: Soumi De. "Local simulations of common envelope: The bridge to binary population modeling"
  • 10:20-10:40: Sophie Schroder. "Modelling wind capture in HMXBs: Toward understanding electromagnetic emission from precursors of the LIGO sources"
  • 10:40-11:00: Francisco. "Novel tests of general relativity"
  • 11:00-11:20: Alejandro Vigna-Gomez. "Binary mergers and the nature and fate of LBVs and massive stars" 

Wednesday

  • 10:00-10:20: Valeriya Korol. "The effects of formation environment on the properties of massive binaries"
  • 10:20-10:40: Michael Zevin. "Binary-Binary interactions with General Relativistic (GR) effects included in the N-body equation-of-motion" 
  • 10:40-11:00: Ariadna Murguia Berthier. "Low angular momentum leading to black hole assembly in LIGO progenitors"
  • 11:00-11:20: Stefano Ascenzi. "The luminosity function of macronovae" 
  • 11:20-11:40: Zoheyr Doctor. "Testing Compact Binary Formation Models with Supernova Observations"