Programme

Tuesday, 6 August 2024

Poster Session I

10:00 – 10:30 All accepted posters

Populations & Progenitors

10:30 – 11:00 Floor Broekgaarden Progenitor populations of high-frequency GW mergers
11:00 – 11:15 Raphael Hirschi 321D modelling of convection in progenitors of supernovae, neutron stars and black holes
11:15 – 11:30 Pablo Marchant An upper limit on the spins of black holes formed through binary evolution
11:30 – 11:45 Koushik Sen Massive Algols as whetstones for the progenitors of stripped-envelope supernovae and gravitational wave sources
11:45 – 12:00 Annachiara Picco Forming merging double compact objects with stable mass transfer
13:30 – 13:45 Dong Lai Dynamical Formation of Merging Compact Binaries
13:45 – 14:00 Fabian Schneider Bimodal black-hole mass distribution and chirp masses of binary black-hole mergers
14:00 – 14:15 Sourav Chatterjee Dynamical Formation of Gravitational Wave Sources and Implications for Advanced LIGO
14:15 – 14:30 Sambaran Banerjee Stellar-mass binary black hole mergers from young massive clusters, open clusters, and isolated binaries
14:30 – 14:45 Fulya Kiroglu Signatures of Dynamically-driven Black Hole Mergers through Stellar Collisions and Accretion in Dense Star Clusters
14:45 – 15:00 Isobel Romero-Shaw Detecting, interpreting, and harnessing gravitational waves from eccentric compact binaries

Poster Session II

15:00 – 15:30 All accepted posters

NanoHertz GW

15:30 – 15:45 Matthew Miles The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: Towards the detection of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves
15:45 – 16:00 Mayuresh Surnis Recent Results from the Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA)
16:00 – 16:15 Jaikhomba Singha Precision timing of the relativistic double neutron star binary, PSR J1757-1854 with MeerKAT
16:15 – 16:30 Daniel Reardon Advancing gravitational wave searches with southern hemisphere pulsar timing arrays
16:30 – 16:45 Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan Mass measurements of binary pulsar systems
16:45 – 17:00 Tomasz Bulik Nano hertz gravitational wave background from stellar binaries

Wednesday, 7 August 2024

Plenary

08:30 – 09:00 Silvia Biscoveanu Results from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4 run
09:00 – 09:30 Kenta Hotokezaka Electromagnetic signatures of gravitational wave mergers
09:30 – 10:00 Ryan Shannon Results from the Pulsar Timing Arrays

Poster Session III

10:00 – 10:30 All accepted posters

Fundamental Physics

10:30 – 10:45 Virginia Trimble Was it really only yesterday – the history of gravitational wave production and detection
10:45 – 11:00 Wynn Ho Monitoring young X-ray pulsars using NICER and searching for their gravitational wave emission
11:00 – 11:15 Nikhil Sarin Leveraging direct and indirect multi-messenger observations of merging neutron star binaries
11:15 – 11:30 Clecio Bom A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant using gravitational wave events from the first year of the fourth LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing run
11:30 – 11:45 Tathagata Ghosh Joint Inference of Population, Cosmology, and Neutron Star Equation of State from Gravitational Waves of Dark Binary Neutron Stars
11:45 – 12:00 Jeandrew Brink Black Holes – Deep Dive – Applications of Resonant Structures

Physics of Mergers I

13:30 – 13:45 Albert Sneppen Kilonova evolution — the rapid emergence of spectral features
13:45 – 14:00 James Gillanders Identifying heavy r-process elements in the spectra of two compact binary mergers
14:00 – 14:15 Donggeun Tak Identifying the Heavy Element Signatures in Kilonovae: How Kilonova Ejecta Properties Affect Its Spectrum and Lightcurve.
14:15 – 14:30 Z. Lucas Uhm Exploring the Impact of Ejecta Velocity Profile on Kilonova Evolution: Diversity of the Kilonova Lightcurves
14:30 – 14:45 Ian Roederer The physics of neutron-star mergers revealed by the detailed element-by-element composition of ancient kilonovae outflows
14:45 – 15:00 Kelly Gourdji Revisiting GW170817’s jet on milliarcsecond scales: novel techniques reveal new constraints on key jet parameters

Poster Session IV

15:00 – 15:30 All accepted posters

Physics of Mergers II

15:30 – 15:45 Hiromichi Tagawa The emission for optical and gamma-ray flares associated with binary black hole mergers
15:45 – 16:00 Jordy Davelaar Electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole binaries
16:00 – 16:15 Nigel Bishop Astrophysical implications of gravitational wave interactions with matter
16:15 – 16:30 Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ramírez New Optical Light-Curve Predictions of Electromagnetic Counterparts to Binary Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei
16:30 – 16:45 Michal Zajacek Revealing EMRI/IMRI candidates by quasiperiodic ultrafast outflows
16:45 – 17:00 Agnieszka Janiuk Viscous torque in turbulent magnetized AGN accretion disks and its effects on EMRI’s gravitational wave

Thursday, 8 August 2024

Poster Session V

10:00 – 10:30 All accepted posters

Forward 1: LISA

10:30 – 11:00 Jonathan Gair The LISA Laser Interferometry Antenna
11:00 – 11:15 Hongwei Ge The criteria for dynamical timescale mass transfer and its application in double white dwarfs
11:15 – 11:30 alberto vecchio Identifying galactic compact binaries of neutron stars and black holes with LISA
11:30 – 11:45 Thomas Kupfer The prospects for Multimessenger studies for Galactic binaries with LISA
11:45 – 12:00 Manuel Arca Sedda The formation of intermediate-mass black holes in dense environments: perspectives for current and future gravitational wave detectors
13:30 – 13:45 Aleksandra Olejak Unequal-mass, highly-spinning binary black hole mergers in stable mass transfer formation channel
13:45 – 14:00 Sayan Basu Radio view of PG 1302-102: a potential black hole binary candidate for gravitational wave emission?
14:00 – 14:15 Metin Ata Constraining the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background Anisotropy with Constrained Simulations
14:15 – 14:30 Gerardo Urrutia Sanchez Gravitational wave memory from the propagation of Long Gamma Ray Bursts and their detection by future space-based interferometers
14:30 – 14:45 Surajit Kalita Detection of continuous gravitational waves from fast radio burst sites to understand their progenitor mechanisms

Forward 2: Ground-based Instrumentation I

14:45 – 15:00 Massimiliano Razzano The Low-Frequency frontier.New approachesto seismic noise attenuationand their impact onobservingcapabilities of future gravitationalwavedetectors

Poster Session VI

15:00 – 15:30 All accepted posters

Forward 2: Ground-based Instrumentation II

15:30 – 16:00 Stefan Ballmer Future ground-based gravitational wave observatories
16:00 – 16:15 Valentina Mangano Mitigating Parametric Instabilities with Mechanical Dampers in Current and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors
16:15 – 16:30 Scott Ransom The Future of NANOGrav and the DSA-2000
16:30 – 16:45 Maura McLaughlin The NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Program: Observing, Analysis, and Astrophysics
16:45 – 17:00 Danny Price Enabling gravitational wave astrophysics with the SKA