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Dynamical Horizons, Binary Coalescences, Simulations and Waveforms

July 16 - 19, 2018

320 Whitmore Lab


Workshop Program


All discussion sessions will include short presentations by participants.
These will be organized and coordinated by the discussion leaders.

Monday, July 16
MORNING SESSION:    9:00 AM - 12:30 PM   Post-Newtonian (Chair: Abhay Ashtekar)
  9:00 - 10:00 K. G. Arun - Overview: 40 minutes; Discussion: 20 minutes
What has been accomplished; different kinds of approximations; open issues   Slides
10:00 - 11:00 Discussion Session - Leader: B. Sathyaprakash
Testing GR using PN results (brief presentation: Anuradha Gupta)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Discussion Session, continued
Interface between Post Newtonian (PN) and Numerical Relativity (NR)
(brief presentations: Brennan Ireland -
12:30 -   2:00 Lunch (on own)
AFTERNOON SESSION:    2:00 - 5:30 PM   Numerical Relativity (Chair: Jose-Luis Jaramillo)
  2:00 -   3:00 Pablo Laguna - Overview: 40 minutes; Discussion: 20 minutes
What has been accomplished; waveform predictions; parameter space
  3:00 -   4:00 Discussion Session - Leader: Deirdre Shoemaker
Black hole spectroscopy (brief presentation: Deborah Ferguson)
  4:00 -   4:30 Coffee Break
  4:30 -   5:30 Discussion Session Leader: Yosef Zlochower
Evolution of binaries and parameter estimation


Tuesday, July 17
MORNING SESSION:    9:00 AM - 12:30 PM   Dynamical Horizons (Chair: Pablo Laguna)
  9:00 - 10:00 Badri Krishnan - Overview: 40 minutes; Discussion: 20 minutes
Basic notions and numerical solutions
10:00 - 11:00 Discussion Session - Leader: Abhay Ashtekar
Multipoles; hair; relation to null (brief presentation: Ofek Birnholtz)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Discussion Session - Leader: Jose-Luis Jaramillo
DHs and null infinity as screens (brief presentations: Ivan Booth and Andrey Shroom)
12:30 -   2:00 Lunch (on own)
AFTERNOON SESSION:    2:00 - 5:30 PM    Post Newtonian, Numerical Relativity and Dynamical Horizons (Chair: Pablo Laguna)
  2:00 -   3:00 B.S. Sathyaprakash - Overview: 40 minutes; Discussion: 20 minutes
Phenomenological and effective one-body models
  3:00 -   4:00 Discussion Session - Leader: Larry Kidder
Modeling: Interface of analytical and numerical methods
  4:00 -   4:30 Coffee Break
  4:30 -   5:30 Discussion Session Leader: Pablo Laguna
DHs and NR


Wednesday, July 18
MORNING SESSION:    9:00 AM - 12:30 PM    Data Analysis (Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker)
  9:00 - 10:00 K. G. Arun - Overview: 40 minutes; Discussion: 20 minutes
Algorithms for testing GR and alternative theories
10:00 - 11:00 Discussion Session - Leader: B. Sathyaprakash
Quantum gravity signatures in gravitational waves? (brief presentation: Eugenio Bianchi)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Brainstorming Session (Chair: Badri Krishnan)
12:30 -   2:00 Lunch (on own)
AFTERNOON SESSION: Discussions/Reports    2:00 - 5:00 PM
  2:00 -   4:00 Summary Session: To-do lists and discussion (Chair: Badri Krishnan)


Focus session supported by the Pittsburgh Foundation through its Urania Stott Fund and the Eberly College of Science.