Day 1: Astrophysics of compact binary populations

• Morning: Compact binary formation models
  8:30am-9:00am: de Mink
  Formation of binary black holes through evolutionary channels
  9:00am-9:30am: Rodriguez
  Dense star clusters as binary black hole factories
  9:30am-10:00am: Horowitz
  Did LIGO detect primordial black holes?

  10:30am-12:00am: discussion panel
  Miller, de Mink, Horowitz, Rodriguez, Stevenson

• Afternoon: Model selection with gravitational wave observations
  1:30pm-2:00pm: Vitale
  A few applications of model selection in gravitational wave astrophysics
  2:00pm-2:30pm: Pankow
  Towards astrophysical model selection with gravitational-wave transient observations
  2:30pm-3:00pm: Stevenson
  Insights into binary evolution from gravitational waves

  3:30pm-5:00pm: discussion panel
  O’Shaughnessy, Pankow, Stevenson, Vitale

Day 2: Spin measurements in compact binaries

• Morning: Linking spin dynamics and astrophysics
  8:30am-9:00am: Taracchini
  Gravitational waveforms for data analysis of spinning binary black holes
  9:00am-9:30am: Lousto
  Flip-flopping spinning binary black holes
  9:30am-10:00:am: Gerosa
  Spin signatures of astrophysical black hole formation mechanisms

  10:30am-12:00am: discussion panel
  Rodriguez, Gerosa, Lousto, Taracchini

• Afternoon: Spin precession, binary morphology and spin measurements
  1:30pm-2:00pm: Kesden
  Precessional dynamics: insights and questions
  2:00pm-2:30pm: Chatziioannou
  Spin-precessing compact binaries: gravitational wave modeling and information extraction
  2:30pm-3:00pm: O’Shaughnessy
  Measuring the imprint of spin in the strong field

  3:30pm-5:00pm: discussion panel
  Vitale, Chatziionannou, Kesden, Klein, O’Shaughnessy

  6:00pm-8:00pm: conference dinner at Saint Leo

Day 3: Strong field gravity and cosmology

• Morning: Black hole spectroscopy, gravitational memory, recoil velocities
  8:30am-9:00am: Yagi
  Current status on probing gravity with binary black hole coalescences
  9:00am-9:30am: Favata
  Gravitational-wave memory: an overview
  9:30am-10:00am: Moore
  Kicked waveforms: Observing black hole recoils in gravitational wave signals

  11:00am-12:00am: discussion panel
  Chen, Favata, Gerosa, Moore, Yagi

• Afternoon: Cosmological measurements with compact binaries
  1:30pm-2:00pm: Van Den Broeck
  Four ways of doing cosmography with gravitational waves
  2:00pm-2:30pm: Nishizawa
  Gravitational wave propagation as a probe for cosmology and gravity
  2:30pm-3:00pm: Tamanini
  Probing cosmology and measuring the peculiar acceleration of binary black holes with LISA

  3:30pm-5:00pm: discussion panel
  Van Den Broeck, Horowitz, Nishizawa, Tamanini - plus slides from Chiara Caprini

Day 4: Signatures of new physics and exotic compact objects

• Morning: Modified gravity
  8:30am-9:00am: Sathyaprakash
  From ringdown back to inspiral
  9:00am-9:30am: Yunes
  Future tests of general relativity with gravitational waves
  9:30am-10:00am: Sotiriou
  Strong gravity and fundamental physics: the four challenges

  10:30am-12:00am: discussion panel
  Van Den Broeck, Littenberg, Silva, Sotiriou, Yunes - see also slide from Hector O. Silva

• Afternoon: Tests of the Kerr nature of black holes and new physics
  1:30pm-2:00pm: Herdeiro
  Kerr black holes can have hair. So what?
  2:00pm-2:30pm: Brito
  Discovering new physics with gravitational wave observations
  2:30pm-3:00pm: Stein
  Bumpy black hole parameterizations

  3:30pm-5:00pm: discussion panel
  Stein, Brito, Herdeiro, Pappas, Yagi