November 17, 2023 - Friday
BREAKFAST | |
WELCOME Robert Wald (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics) and Daniel Holz (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics) | |
CosmologyChair: Daniel HolzERC 161 | |
Aurora Ireland, University of Chicago Supermassive Primordial Black Holes from Inflation | |
Kris Mackewicz, University of Chicago Gravity of Gluonic Fluctuations and the Value of the Cosmological Constant | |
Tomás Ferreira Chase, Universidad de Buenos Aires Ultralight vector dark matter, anisotropies and cosmological adiabatic modes | |
Ifigeneia Giannakoudi, Perimeter Institute Ultralight Boson Probe-ability with LISA | |
Bryce Cousins, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Cosmic anisotropy with networks of next-generation gravitational-wave detectors | |
Utkarsh Mali, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) Gravitational Wave Cosmology using Spectral Sirens | |
Amanda Farah, University of Chicago Cosmology with the mass distribution of GW sources | |
Testing General RelativityChair: Robert WaldERC 161 | |
Quentin Bailey, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Towards a multipole expansion for testing spacetime symmetry | |
COFFEE BREAK | |
Alex Deich, UIUC/ICASU Lyanpunov exponents to test general relativity | |
Guillaume Dideron, Perimeter Institute Looking for unmodelled physics in gravitational waves | |
Kristen Schumacher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Better early than never: Testing GR with GW Polarizations | |
Yiqi Xie, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Neural Post-Einsteinian Framework for Efficient Theory-Agnostic Tests of General Relativity with Gravitational Waves | |
Haoyang Liu, UCAS/UIUC Probing higher curvature effects through an effective-field-theory consistent gravitational wave model | |
LUNCH | |
Gravitational Waves IChair: Jose Maria EzquiagaERC 161 | |
Nijaid Arredondo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Highly eccentric amplitudes in the efficient fully-precessing eccentric waveform model | |
Aryanna Schiebelbein, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Populations of Binary Black Holes Over Cosmic Time | |
Naresh Adhikari, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Enabling Multi-Messenger Astronomy through Low-Latency GW-GRB Coincidence Ranking and Inference. | |
Jacob Sprague, Northwestern University Gravitational wave signals from axion clouds in the LSD band | |
Caroline Owen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Waveform accuracy and systematic uncertainties in current gravitational wave observations | |
Simone Mezzasoma, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Mitigating Waveform Model Uncertainties in Binary Black Hole Parameter Estimation | |
Tamal RoyChowdhury, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee High accuracy post-Newtonian and numerical relativity comparisons involving higher modes for eccentric binary black holes and a dominant mode eccentric inspiral-merger-ringdown model | |
Gabriel Freedman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Cross Validating the Inter-pulsar Correlations in the NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset | |
COFFEE BREAK | |
Classical General Relativity I + Quantum GravityChair: Lydia BieriKPTC 106 (Note that this session is in a different location from the other sessions!) | |
Frederick Pardoe, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Hyperbolic encounters of binary black holes in general relativity, and scalar Gauss-Bonnet fields | |
Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Baylor University Simplest set of modifications to Einstein's Gravity to construct stable traversable wormholes | |
Christopher Stith, University of Michigan Black hole formation with null dust | |
Victor Zhang, University of Chicago The Entropy of Dynamical Black Holes and the Generalized Second Law | |
Soumodeep Mitra, University of South Dakota Probing Quantum Nature of Black holes with Ultralight Dark Matter | |
Tyler McMaken, JILA, University of Colorado Boulder Pancakification in quantum Kerr black holes | |
Shohreh Gholizadeh Siahmazgi, Wake Forest University Infrared Effects and the Unruh State | |
Ian Newsome, Wake Forest University Quantum Effects in 3+1 Schwarzschild-de Sitter Spacetime: Properties of the Hadamard Two-Point Function | |
John Joseph Marchetta, Baylor University Supertranslations at spatial infinity in terms of Ashtekar-Barbero variables. | |
Daine Danielson, The University of Chicago Asymptotic Charge Induced Decoherence in QED and Quantum Gravity |
November 18, 2023 - Saturday
BREAKFAST | |
AstrophysicsChair: Zoheyr DoctorERC 161 | |
Justin Ripley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Probing internal dissipative processes of neutron stars with gravitational waves during the inspiral | |
Abhishek Hegade Kumbale Raveesha, UIUC Probing dissipative effects in neutron stars using gravitational waves-II | |
Rohit Chandramouli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Probing internal dissipative processes of neutron stars with gravitational waves during the inspiral III: Implications from GW170817 | |
Jayana Antunes Saes de Lima, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Why is the average stiffness inside neutron stars approximately universal? | |
Daniel Caballero, Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Stability of Dark Matter Admixed Neutron Stars | |
Darsan Swaroop Bellie, CIERA, Northwestern University The unresolved stochastic background from compact binary mergers detectable by next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatories | |
Pranav Satheesh, University of Florida Studying gravitational wave and slingshot recoil of massive black holes in cosmological simulations | |
Kellie O'Neal-Ault, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Recent Spacetime symmetry tests in Gravity | |
COFFEE BREAK | |
Classical General Relativity IChair: Nicolas YunesERC 161 | |
Zachary Tyler, Grand Valley State Physics Department Numerical Solutions to McVittie Timelike Geodesics | |
Robert Weinbaum, University of Chicago The Averaged Null Energy Condition for Classical Dirac Fields | |
Taillte May, Perimeter Institute Non-linear contribution to black hole ringdown | |
Mohamed Fawzy Abbas Aly, SUNY at Buffalo On the Generalization of the Kruskal-Szekeres Coordinates: A Global Conformal Charting of the Reissner–Nordström Spacetime | |
Conner Dailey, Perimeter Institute Reflecting boundary conditions in numerical relativity as a model for black hole echoes | |
LUNCH | |
Christopher Winfield, Oakland University Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics Analysis of Large Harmonic-Degree Asymptotics for Non-Radial Stellar Pulsation Models: Explorations of Numerical and Symbolic Computation via Mathematica | |
Alan Wiseman, University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee The self-force on a static charge in Schwarzschild spacetime using the method of images | |
Gravitational waves IIChair: Albert StebbinsERC 161 | |
David Garfinkle, Oakland University Gravitational wave memory and the wave equation | |
Sylvia Biscoveanu, Northwestern University Probing Correlations in the Binary Black Hole Population with Flexible Models | |
Maya Fishbach, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Oldest Black Holes | |
Gayathri Vivekananthaswamy, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Gravitational wave source populations: Disentangling an AGN component | |
Colm Talbot, University of Chicago Preparing for gravitational-wave population inference at scale | |
Vishal Baibhav, Northwestern University Which came first? Black-hole Spin or Supernova Kick | |
COFFEE BREAK | |
Nima Laal, Vanderbilt The NANOGrav 15-year data set: Search for Transverse Polarization Modes in the Gravitational-Wave Background | |
Nihan Pol, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee The NANOGrav 15 yr dataset: Evidence for a nanohertz gravitational wave background | |
Lydia Bieri, University of Michigan Asymptotics of Radiative Spacetimes | |
Jamie Bamber, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Fundamental physics with black holes and scalar fields | |
Classical General Relativity IIChair: Alan WisemanERC 161 | |
George Hrabovsky, Midwest Area Science an d Technology Constructing Classical Fields from a Lagrangian in Mathematica | |
James Wheeler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Generic Naked Singularities in Vaidya Spacetimes | |
Alex Buchel, UWO/Perimeter Institute Gravitational reheating at strong coupling from holography | |
Ariel Edery, Bishop's University Phase transition at a critical coupling $xi_c$ for a vortex nonminimally coupled to Einstein gravity in AdS$_3$ | |
Andrew J. S. Hamilton, U. Colorado, Boulder Spin(11,1) String Theory | |
Charles Sven, Independent Researcher The Copernican Cosmological Principle Revisited. |