Schedule
All events will be held at the Alumni Center
All meals are provided through the generosity of the WVU Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
*eligible for student prize
| Date | Time | Event | Location | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-May | 7PM-9PM | Evening Social | Kennedy Club Room | |
| 16-May | 8AM-10AM | Session 1 | Barnette Room | McWilliams, Field, Canizares, Huerta, Winicour, Spilhaus* |
| 10AM-10:30AM | Coffee and snacks | outside Barnette Room | ||
| 10:30AM-12:30PM | Session 2 | Barnette Room | Lousto, Zlochower, Etienne, Dennison, Babuic-Hamilton, Baumgarte | |
| 12:30PM-1:30PM | Lunch | Barnette Room | ||
| 1:30PM-5PM | Session 3 | Barnette Room | Harry, McLaughlin, Shawhan, Jones*, Swiggum*, Yancey*, Bahrami*, Ruchlin*, Kriske, Rasor | |
| 5PM-7PM | Conference dinner | Nutting Gallery | ||
| 7PM-9PM | Planetarium Show and observing (weather permitting) | White Hall | ||
| 17-May | 8AM-10AM | Session 1 | Barnette Room | Mark*, Moxon*, Cailleteau, Brahma, Ita, Zimmerman* |
| 10AM-10:30AM | Coffee and snacks | outside Barnette Room | ||
| 10:30AM-12:30PM | Session 2 | Barnette Room | Westernacher-Schneider*, Stephen Green, Yang, Landry*, Bonga*, Kesavan* | |
| 12:30PM-1:30PM | Lunch | Barnette Room | ||
| 1:30PM-5PM | Session 3 | Barnette Room | Finch, Akbar, Edward Green, McNees, Nichols, Owen, Taylor | |
| 4PM-5PM | Featured Talk by Ezra (Ted) Newman | Barnette Room | ||
| 5:00PM-5:15PM | GGR award for best student talk | |||
| 5:15PM | Meeting Adjourns | |||
| 7PM-10PM | Performance by Second Cousin (featuring Duncan Lorimer) | Downtown Black Bear |
Detailed Talk Schedule
Download the detailed schedule in pdf format here.
16 May 2014
Session 1
| 8:00 AM | 8:20 AM | Sean McWilliams | Welcome |
| 8:20 AM | 8:40 AM | Scott Field | Surrogate models for rapid generation of parameterized waveforms |
| 8:40 AM | 9:00 AM | Priscilla Canizares | Accelerated parameter estimation of gravitational waves |
| 9:00 AM | 9:20 AM | Eliu Huerta | A waveform model for mergers of eccentric compact binaries |
| 9:20 AM | 9:40 AM | Jeffrey Winicour | TBA |
| 9:40 AM | 10:00 AM | Tyler Spilhaus* | Numerical study of high-multipole Kerr tails |
Session 2
| 10:30 AM | 10:50 AM | Carlos Lousto | Recoil velocities for aligned spin black hole binaries |
| 10:50 AM | 11:10 AM | Yosef Zlochower | Recoils from the mergers of supermassive black hole binaries |
| 11:10 AM | 11:30 AM | Zachariah Etienne | IllinoisGRMHD: an open-source, highly-extensible, and portable rewrite of the Illinois GRMHD code |
| 11:30 AM | 11:50 AM | Ken Dennison | TBA |
| 11:50 AM | 12:10 AM | Maria Babuic-Hamilton | TBA |
| 12:10 AM | 12:30 AM | Thomas Baumgarte | TBA |
Session 3
| 1:30 PM | 1:50 PM | Gregory Harry | Status of Advanced LIGO |
| 1:50 PM | 2:10 PM | Maura McLaughlin | Status of NANOGrav |
| 2:10 PM | 2:30 PM | Peter Shawhan | Detectability ofÓcalar GW Bursts with LIGO and Virgo |
| 2:30 PM | 2:50 PM | Megan Jones* | Measuring the Shapiro delay and unusual orbit of PSR J1903+0327 |
| 2:50 PM | 3:10 PM | Joseph Swiggum* | Pulsars in DNS binaries: probing GR and constraining the galactic NS-NS binary merger rate |
| 3:10 PM | 3:30 PM | Cregg Yancey* | Coincident measurement of gravitational waves and prompt meter-wavelength radio emissions |
| 3:30 PM | 3:50 PM | Sina Bahrami* | Non Gaussianity in single field inflationary models with non-Bunch Davies vacuua |
| 3:50 PM | 4:10 PM | Ian Ruchlin* | Puncture initial data for black hole binaries with nearly extremal spins |
| 4:10 PM | 4:30 PM | Richard Kriske | Predicting gravitational waves in the CMB using Hawking's imaginary time |
| 4:30 PM | 4:50 PM | Ned Rasor | Predicting the fundamental constants of nature using a phenomenological model of gravitation |
17 May 2014
Session 1
| 8:00 AM | 8:20 AM | Zachary Mark* | Perturbative solutions for quasi-normal modes of Kerr-Newman black holes |
| 8:20 AM | 8:40 AM | Jordan Moxon* | On the subleading correction to the self-force for a particle coupled to a scalar field in Minkowski spacetime |
| 8:40 AM | 9:00 AM | Thomas Cailleteau | Effective loop quantum cosmology |
| 9:00 AM | 9:20 AM | Suddhasattwa Brahma* | TBA |
| 9:20 AM | 9:40 AM | Eyo Ita | Affine group formulation for four-dimensional, quantum gravity |
| 9:40 AM | 10:00 AM | Peter Zimmerman* | Going beyond the vacuum in self-force calculations |
Session 2
| 10:30 AM | 10:50 AM | Ryan Westernacher-Scheider* | Hydrodynamic turbulence in 2+1D and applications to 3+1D gravity |
| 10:50 AM | 11:10 AM | Stephen Green | Holographic path to the turbulent side of gravity |
| 11:10 AM | 11:30 AM | Huan Yang | Turbulent gravitational behavior in rapidly spinning black holes |
| 11:30 AM | 11:50 AM | Phillippe Landry* | Relativistic theory of surficial Love numbers |
| 11:50 AM | 12:10 AM | Beatrice Bonga* | Asymptotics with a positive cosmological constant |
| 12:10 AM | 12:30 AM | Aruna Kesavan* | Asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes |
Session 3
| 1:30 PM | 1:52 PM | Tehani Finch | A new formulation of the Myers-Perry metric |
| 1:52 PM | 2:13 PM | Mohammad Akbar | TBA |
| 2:13 PM | 2:35 PM | Edward Green | Conservative transformation group: star models, dark matter halos and solar system dynamics |
| 2:35 PM | 2:56 PM | Robert McNees | Four-dimensional conformal gravity with (Anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions |
| 2:56 PM | 3:18 PM | David Nichols | Ambiguity in angular momentum and its relationship to gravitational-wave memory |
| 3:18 PM | 3:39 PM | Robert Owen | The algebraic structure of mixmaster cosmology |
| 3:39 PM | 4:00 PM | Peter Taylor | Propagation of test particles and test fields in traversable wormhole spacetimes |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Ezra (Ted) Newman | Reminiscences, opinions, and judgments |
Participants
- Jennifer Adams — GMU
- Mohammad Akbar — The University of Texas at Dallas
- Maria Babiuc-Hamilton — Marshall University
- Sina Bahrami — Cornell University
- Kamal Barghout — Prince Mohammad University
- Thomas Baumgarte — Bowdoin College
- Beatrice Bonga — The Pennsylvania State University
- Suddhasattwa Brahma — Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Penn State University
- Thomas Cailleteau — Institute gravitation and Cosmos
- Priscilla Canizares — Cambridge University (UK)
- Ken Dennison — Bowdoin College
- Zachariah Etienne — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/U. of Maryland/WVU
- Hannah Fair — American University
- Scott Field — University of Maryland
- Tehani Finch — NASA/GSFC
- Eanna Flanagan — Cornell University
- Edward Green — University of North Georgia
- Stephen Green — University of Guelph
- Charles Harnden — University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
- Gregory Harry — American University
- Eliu Huerta — West Virginia University
- Eyo Ita — US Naval Academy. Annapolis, MD
- Jack Jenkins — SUNY Geneseo
- Megan Jones — West Virginia University
- Bernard Kelly — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Aruna Kesavan — The Pennsylvania State University
- Richard Kriske — University of Minnesota
- Philippe Landry — University of Guelph
- Ben Lemberger — Oberlin College
- Duncan Lorimer — West Virginia University
- Carlos Lousto — Rochester Institute of Technology
- Ulisses Diego Almeida Santos Machado — Cornell University
- Zachary Mark — Oberlin College
- Maura McLaughlin — West Virginia University
- Sean McWilliams — West Virginia University
- Robert McNees — Loyola University Chicago
- Jordan Moxon — Cornell University
- Ezra Newman — University of Pittsburgh
- Jonathan Newport — American University
- David Nichols — Cornell University
- Robert Owen — Oberlin College
- Akshaya Rane — West Virginia University
- Ned Rasor — Rasor Associates, Inc.
- Ian Ruchlin — Rochester Institute of Technology
- Peter Shawhan — University of Maryland
- Tyler Spilhaus — University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
- Leo Stein — Cornell University
- Joe Swiggum — West Virginia University
- Peter Taylor — Cornell University
- Richard P Treat — West Virginia University
- Paul Walter — St. Edward's University
- Ryan Westernacher-Scheider — Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute
- Jeffrey Winicour — University of Pittsburgh
- Cregg Yancey — University of Maryland
- Huan Yang — Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Fan Zhang — West Virginia University
- Peter Zimmerman — Guelph
- Yosef Zlochower — Rochester Institute of Technology