Program

This is the final program for the workshop (including all abstracts) in pdf format. Please remember that afternoon sessions will mostly be reserved for informal discussions.

Monday: Present and future experimental tests of GR
Location: Yerby Conference Center (special location for this day only!)

8:30-8:50 Emanuele Berti: Welcome
8:50-9:40 Cliff Burgess: Effective field theories and modified gravity: A bad cop wrapped in a wet blanket standing in a cold shower
9:40-10:30 Norbert Wex: Tests of gravity from radio pulsars
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:40 Pedro Ferreira: Testing general relativity with cosmology
11:40-12:30 Nico Yunes: Gravitational wave tests of general relativity

2:00pm Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Discussion): Testing strong field gravity: Expectations from ground- and space-based gravitational-wave detectors
Discussion panel slides

Tuesday: Systematic errors in GR; data analysis issues
Location: Student Union 

8:30-9:10 Chris Van den Broeck: Testing the strong-field dynamics of general relativity with gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact binaries. I. Basic framework.
9:10-10:00 Tjonnie Li: Testing the strong-field dynamics of general relativity with gravitational wave signals from coalescing compact binaries. II. The TIGER data analysis pipeline.
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:10 Tyson Littenberg: Evidence you can trust through detailed modeling of GW data
11:10-12:00 Antonio De Felice: Review of modified gravity models

2:00pm Neil Cornish: Discussion

Wednesday: Overview of alternative theories
Location: Student Union

8:30-9:20 Vitor CardosoPrecision gravitational-wave astrophysics
9:20-10:10 Andrew MatasObservational tests of massive gravity and galileons
10:10-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:20 Michael HorbatschScalar-tensor gravity
11:20-12:10 Enrico Barausse: Astrophysical consequences of Lorentz violations in gravity
12:10-1:00 Flavio de Sousa Coelho: n-DBI gravity

2:30pm Leo Stein: Discussion

Thursday: Compact objects in alternative theories
Location: Student Union

8:30-9:10 Richard O’ShaughnessyDisentangling astrophysics from gravity
9:10-9:50 Kostas KokkotasRotating relativistic stars: Equilibrium configurations and instabilities
9:50-10:30 Hajime SotaniStellar oscillations in scalar-tensor theory
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:30 Kent Yagi: Strong-field tests of gravity with universal relations in neutron stars and quark stars
11:30-12:10 Ryan Lang: Compact binaries in scalar-tensor gravity: Equations of motion and tensor gravitational waves to high post-Newtonian order

2:00pm Paolo Pani (Discussion): Parametrizing compact objects in modified gravity: where do we stand?

Friday: Numerical simulations and strong-field dynamics
Location: Student Union

8:30-9:10 Ulrich Sperhake: Black-hole binary inspiral and merger in scalar-tensor theory of gravity (animation)
9:10-9:50 Pablo Laguna: Merger of binary black holes in scalar-tensor theories of gravity
9:50-10:10 Coffee break
10:10-11:00 Helvi WitekBlack holes as observatories for beyond-standard model physics
11:00-11:40 Hirotada OkawaCollapse of self-interacting fundamental fields in asymptotically flat spacetimes (animation)

1:00pm Ulrich Sperhake: Discussion