Schedule
Friday
| 8:00 – 8:50 | Registration and coffee | ||
| 8:50 | Session 1 | Chair: Leo C. Stein | |
| 8:50 – 9:00 | Welcome | ||
| 9:00—9:15 | Emanuele Berti | Black hole spectroscopy | |
| 9:15—9:30 | Nathan Johnson-McDaniel | Constraining binaries of black hole mimickers using gravitational waves | |
| 9:30—9:45 | * | Purnima Narayan | Probing biases in Tests of GR due to Strong Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves |
| 9:45—10:00 | * | Siddharth Mahesh | Enhancing Accuracy and Performance of Aligned Spin EOB Models with NRPy and BOB |
| 10:00—10:15 | * | Aniket Khairnar | Improvement in PNBMS frame fixing using PN result of COM charge |
| 10:15—10:30 | Sashwat Tanay | 2PN solution to the dynamics of spinning, eccentric binary black holes | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | Session 2 | Chair: Sashwat Tanay | |
| 11:00—11:15 | * | Preeti Sharma | The effect of Microseismic ground motion on the Duty-Cycle of the LIGO Livingston detector in Last Two Winters |
| 11:15—11:30 | * | Debasmita Nandi | Characterizing the scattered light noise in the LIGO Livingston Observatory |
| 11:30—11:45 | * | Mari Strong | Data-Driven Controls and Advanced LIGO |
| 11:45—12:00 | Rakshak Adhikari | General Relativistic Force-free Electrodynamics | |
| 12:00—12:15 | Govind Menon | The Cosmological Balance of Electromagnetic Power | |
| 12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Session 3 | Chair: Maria Jose Bustamante Rosell | |
| 14:00—14:15 | * | Calla Bassett | Origins of the term “chirp mass” in gravitational wave astronomy |
| 14:15—14:30 | * | Muhsin Aljaf | Primordial Black Hole Merger Rates from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observations |
| 14:30—14:45 | * | Joseph Fichera | Modeling Intermediate-Mass BlackHole Growth and Dynamics in a Cosmological Population of Nuclear Star Clusters |
| 14:45—15:00 | * | William G. Lamb | Cosmic Variance Effects on Gravitational Wave Background Spectra |
| 15:00—15:15 | * | Arindam Sharma | The Shape of U: Measuring the curvature of the Universe with Gravitational Waves |
| 15:15—15:30 | * | Amitesh Singh | Tracing the evolution of precessing binary black holes on eccentric orbits |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 | Session 4 | Chair: Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño | |
| 16:00—16:15 | Vladimir Strokov | LISA double white dwarf binaries as Galactic accelerometers | |
| 16:15—16:30 | Maria Jose Bustamante Rosell | Celestial Poincaré Maps: Using Quasi-Periodic Eruptions to Find Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals | |
| 16:30—16:45 | * | Harry O’Mara | Searching for EMRI Signals through a Bayesian Analysis |
| 16:45—17:00 | Robert Rosati | A Prototype Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Search for the LISA Global Fit | |
| 17:00—17:15 | Prof. Dr. Andreas Malcherek | A gravitoelectromagnetic alternative to general relativity theory |
Saturday
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Coffee | ||
| 9:00 | Session 5 | Chair: Francesco Bertucci | |
| 9:00—9:15 | James Bonifacio | Bootstrap bounds on manifolds | |
| 9:15—9:30 | * | Nauman Ibrahim | Numerically estimating the Weyl tensor for a causal set sprinkled in a plane gravitational wave. |
| 9:30—9:45 | * | Maxwell Siebersma | Polymer Quantum Mechanics on Compact Configuration Spaces |
| 9:45—10:00 | * | Paula Ariela Calizaya Cabrera | Toward the observation of entanglement from superradiant scattering |
| 10:00—10:15 | * | Riley B. Dawkins | Analogue Quantum Field Theory in Quantum Spacetime – An Experimental Approach |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | Session 6 | Chair: James Bonifacio | |
| 11:00—11:15 | Roman Berens | Visualizing Black Hole Spacetime with the Photon Ring | |
| 11:15—11:30 | * | Trevor Gravely | Black Hole Vision: An Interactive iOS App to Visualize Warped Spacetime |
| 11:30—11:45 | Alex Lupsasca | The Black Hole Explorer: The Future of Black Hole Imaging | |
| 11:45—12:00 | Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño | Perturbative and non-linear analyses of gravitational turbulence in spacetimes with stable light rings | |
| 12:00—12:15 | Soham Maity | Gravitational wave in f(Q) gravity via geodesic deviation | |
| 12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Session 7 | Chair: Alex Lupsasca | |
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| 14:15—14:30 | Thomas Donlon | Directly Measuring the Milky Way’s Gravity with Pulsar Accelerations | |
| 14:30—14:45 | * | LingQin Xue | What determines the maximum mass of AGN-assisted black hole mergers? |
| 14:45—15:00 | * | R. Daniel Murphy | Gravitational Wave Analysis as a Tool to Investigate Core Collapse Supernovae |
| 15:00—15:15 | * | James Phillips | Constraining Neutron Star Kicks With Gravitational Waves |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 | Session 8 | Chair: Nathan Johnson-McDaniel | |
| 16:00—16:15 | Yafet E Sanchez Sanchez | Energy decay in Rindler Spacetime | |
| 16:15—16:30 | Bruno Arderucio Costa | Safeguards Against Negative Masses | |
| 16:30—16:45 | * | Siddiqur Rahman (Milon) | Linearization Stability in Conformal Gravity |
| 16:45—17:00 | * | Subhayu Bagchi | Numerical Solutions to Rotating Black Holes in theories of gravity beyond GR |
| 17:00—17:15 | Lucas Timotheo Sanches | Boosting performance in the Einstein Toolkit: Multipatch domains and Multistep time integrators | |
| 17:15 – 17:25 | Break for judges to deliberate | ||
| 17:25 – 17:30 | Student prize and Closing |
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