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. |
