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KITP Conference: Storming the Gravitational Wave Frontier
(Apr 19-22, 2022)
Coordinators: Alessandra Buonanno, Donal O'Connell, Ira Rothstein, Mikhail Solon, and Aaron Zimmerman

Tuesday, Apr 19, 2022

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome[Video][CC]
9:00am Christopher Berry (Glasgow U) The status of gravitational-wave astronomy[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am Teja Nerella (UCSB) Looking for mergers in gravitational wave data: results, lessons, and future outlook[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Philippe Landry (CITA) Neutron star binaries: mergers, matter and modeling[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am Ilya Mandel (Monash) Things I don't know about gravitational-wave astrophysics (but would like to learn)[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Stefano Foffa (Geneva) Radiative contributions to conservative binary dynamics[Slides][Video][CC]
2:45pm Claudia de Rham (Imperial College) Causality Constraints on the EFT of gravity around Black Holes[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Jan Steinhoff (AEI) Gravitational waveforms for compact binaries[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45pm Julio Parra Martinez (Caltech) Collider methods for gravitational physics: status and challenges ahead[Video][CC]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Apr 20, 2022

9:00am Gabriele Veneziano (CERN) Lessons from the ultra-relativistic frontier[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am Harvey Reall (Cambridge) Well-posed formulation of some gravitational effective field theories[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Geoffrey Lovelace (Cal State Fullerton) Numerical relativity for next-generation gravitational-wave observatories[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am William East (Perimeter Inst.) Predicting New Physics for Gravitational Wave Astronomy[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Carlo Heissenberg (Uppsala U) The Eikonal Exponentiation and Soft Theorems[Slides][Video][CC]
2:45pm Nathan Moynihan (Edinburgh U) How uncertainty clarifies observables from amplitudes[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Penn State) Probing the Universe with Cosmic Explorer[Video][CC]
4:45pm Hsin Yu Chen (MIT) Gravitational-wave standard sirens with electromagnetic counterparts[Video][CC]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Apr 21, 2022

9:00am Barry Wardell (UC Dublin) Gravitational waveforms for compact binaries from second-order self-force theory[Video][CC]
9:45am Rafael Porto (DESY) Bootstrapping the relativistic 2-body problem: From (post-)Newton to (post-) Minkowski through Feynman[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins) Black hole spectroscopy[Video][CC]
11:45am Elisa Maggio (AEI) Probing new physics at the horizon of black holes with gravitational waves[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Callum Jones (UCLA) From Scattering Amplitudes to N-Body Potentials[Video][CC]
2:45pm Gustav Mogull (AEI) SUSY in the Sky with Gravitons[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Chia-Hsien Shen (UCSD) Solving Dissipative Dynamics from Poincare Invariance and Soft theorems[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45pm Lionel Mason (Oxford) Explicit gravity amplitudes on self-dual backgrounds[Slides][Video][CC]
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Friday, Apr 22, 2022

9:00am Sam Gralla (Arizona) Scattering scoots in gravity and electromagnetism[Video]
9:45am Justin Vines (AEI) Scattering gravitational waves off spinning black holes[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Alfredo Guevara (Harvard) Twistor Amplitudes[Video][CC]
11:45am Michèle Levi (QMUL) What is Love? New Physics at the State of the Art with Spins[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm

CONFERENCE ENDS- SHUTTLE BACK TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus Goleta location (See Registration Desk BEFORE FRIDAY to sign up.)

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