Schedule
Friday
8:00 – 8:30 | Registration and breakfast | ||
8:30 | Session 1: HEP | Chair: Ashmeet Singh | |
8:30 – 8:42 | Welcome | ||
8:42 – 8:54 | * | Nico Salzetta | Spacetime from Unentanglement |
8:54 – 9:06 | * | Pratik Rath | Holography in general spacetimes |
9:06 – 9:18 | * | Gabriel Trevino | How to close the holographic entropy cone |
9:18 – 9:30 | * | Taha Ahmad Malik | A novel definition of entropy and application to black holes. |
9:30 – 9:42 | * | Yousef Izadi | Holographic Dual of Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes |
9:42 – 9:54 | Aron Wall | The True Meaning of Apparent Horizon Entropy | |
9:54 – 10:06 | * | Gökçen Deniz Alıcı | Entropy in Born-Infeld Gravity |
10:06 – 10:18 | * | Zicao Fu | Bare Quantum Null Energy Condition |
10:18 – 10:30 | * | Julio Parra-Martinez | Anomalies and divergences in (super)gravity |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
11:00 | Session 2: Gravitational waves | Chair: Max Isi | |
11:00 – 11:12 | * | Gautam Venugopalan | Squeezing the vacuum - optomechanics for precision metrology and cosmology |
11:12 – 11:24 | Alexandra Macedo | Identifying correlations between LIGO’s astronomical range and auxiliary sensors using LASSO regression | |
11:24 – 11:36 | * | Ron Tso | Black Hole Spectroscopy with Active Interferometry |
11:36 – 11:48 | * | Kellie Ault-O’Neal | Testing General Relativity Through Gravitational Waves |
11:48 – 12:00 | * | Katie Chamberlain | Testing modified gravity with future gravitational wave detectors |
12:00 – 12:12 | Preston Jones | Vacuum production of electromagnetic radiation by gravitational waves | |
12:12 – 12:24 | * | Nader Inan | A New Approach to Detecting Gravitational Waves via a Charge Separation Effect in Superconductors |
12:24 – 14:00 | Lunch | ||
14:00 | Session 3: Astrophysics | Chair: Jess McIver | |
14:00 – 14:12 | * | Riccardo Barbieri | Black hole spin alignment in binary black hole merger |
14:12 – 14:24 | Johan Samsing | Formation of Eccentric Black Hole Mergers | |
14:24 – 14:36 | * | Matthew Giesler | Low-mass X-ray binaries from black-hole retaining globular clusters |
14:36 – 14:48 | Chiara Mingarelli | The local nanohertz gravitational-wave landscape from supermassive black hole binaries | |
14:48 – 15:00 | Stephen Taylor | Nanohertz-frequency Gravitational Wave Astrophysics With Pulsar Timing Arrays | |
15:00 – 15:12 | Natalia Tenorio Maia | Radiation reaction of binary systems via EFT: spin effects | |
15:12 – 15:24 | Simon Birrer | Probing spacetime with strong gravitational lensing | |
15:24 – 15:36 | * | Baoyi Chen | Deformations of extremal black holes in GR and from stringy interactions |
15:36 – 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
16:00 | Session 4: GR/HEP | Chair: Davide Gerosa | |
16:00 – 16:12 | Achilleas Porfyriadis | Critical Emission from a High-Spin Black Hole | |
16:12 – 16:24 | Sam Gralla | Critical Behavior of Extremal Black Hole Perturbations. I. Aretakis Instability | |
16:24 – 16:36 | Peter Zimmerman | Critical Behavior of Extremal Black Hole Perturbations. II. Universal Exponents | |
16:36 – 16:48 | * | Arun Ravishankar | Critical Behavior of Extremal Black Hole Perturbations. III. Holography? |
16:48 – 17:00 | * | Eric Mefford | Gravitational Constraints on Operators in Spherical CFTd |
17:00 – 17:12 | James Hartle | No Boundary Wave Functions of the Universe | |
17:12 – 17:24 | Gary Horowitz | Cosmic Censorship in Anti DeSitter Space | |
17:24 – 17:36 | * | Ivan Kolar | Higher-dimensional NUT-like and near-horizon geometries from the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS metrics |
Saturday
8:00 – 8:30 | Breakfast | ||
8:30 | Session 5: Beyond GR | Chair: Maria Okounkova | |
8:30 – 8:42 | Quentin G Bailey | General Relativity tests in the solar system and beyond | |
8:42 – 8:54 | * | Luciano Manfredi | Quasinormal Modes of Modified Gravity Black Holes |
8:54 – 9:06 | * | Ruifeng Dong | Gravitational-wave ringdown echoes from black holes in massive gravity |
9:06 – 9:18 | * | Zachary Mark | A recipe for echoes from exotic compact objects |
9:18 – 9:30 | Matthew Mewes | Tests of local Lorentz invariance in General Relativity | |
9:30 – 9:42 | * | Noah Harris | Testing for Equivalence Principle Violation with Fission Products |
9:42 – 9:54 | * | Michele Oliosi | Minimal theory of quasidilaton massive gravity |
9:54 – 10:06 | * | Kevin Croker | Cosmological tests of the gravastar hypothesis |
10:06 – 10:18 | Coleman Dobson | Fuzz Balls and Noncommutative Gravity | |
10:18 – 10:30 | Atsushi Naruko | Extended vector-tensor theory | |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
11:00 | Session 6: Numerical Relativity | Chair: Matthew Giesler | |
11:00 – 11:12 | * | Vijay Varma | Aligned-spin numerical relativity hybrid surrogate model with subdominant modes. |
11:12 – 11:24 | Davide Gerosa | Modeling black hole kicks with waveform approximants | |
11:24 – 11:36 | * | Hyun Lim | Towards simulations of intermediate/extreme mass ratio binaries with numerical relativity |
11:36 – 11:48 | * | Vishal Baibhav | Systematic Errors and Energy Estimates in Binary Black Hole Ringdown |
11:48 – 12:00 | * | Maria Okounkova | On choosing the start time of binary black hole ringdown |
12:00 – 12:12 | * | Samuel Rodriguez | Visualizing the Curvature of Spacetime: Vortex and Tendex Lines of Head-On Merging Binary Black Holes |
12:12 – 12:24 | Charalampos Markakis | Acoustical & Canonical Fluid Dynamics in Numerical General Relativity | |
12:24 – 12:36 | George Schuhmann | Use of a Density Function to Represent Gravity | |
12:36 – 14:00 | Lunch | ||
14:00 | Session 7: Cosmology | Chair: Steve Taylor | |
14:00 – 14:12 | Arthur Fischer | A Simple Model for the Birth and Death of the Universe | |
14:12 – 14:24 | Rodger Thompson | Analytic Cosmological Parameter Solutions with Beta Functions | |
14:24 – 14:36 | * | Taisaku Mori | BRS structure of simple model for the cosmological constant |
14:36 – 14:48 | Tanmoy Paul | Bouncing cosmology from warped extra dimensional scenario. | |
14:48 – 15:00 | * | Dipanjan Dey | On The Validity of Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in a Cosmological Scenario |
15:00 – 15:12 | * | Andres Américo Navarro Leon | Non-Abelian S-term dark energy and inflation |
15:12 – 15:24 | Nikodem Poplawski | Big Bounce and Inflation from Spin and Torsion | |
15:24 – 15:36 | * | Ilya Vilensky | Deriving loop quantum cosmology dynamics from diffeomorphism invariance |
15:36 – 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
16:00 | Session 8: GR/HEP | Chair: Leo Stein | |
16:00 – 16:10 | Student Prize | ||
16:10 – 16:22 | Hongsu Kim | Closed Timelike Curves in Kerr-Newman BH spacetime are gauge artifacts. | |
16:22 – 16:34 | Chia-Hsien Shen | Color-kinematics duality in Classical Radiation | |
16:34 – 16:46 | Christos Tzounis | Ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein Metric of an Evaporating Black Hole | |
16:46 – 16:58 | Shohreh Abdolrahimi | Hawking Radiation Energy and Entropy from a Bianchi-Smerlak Semiclassical Black Hole | |
16:58 – 17:10 | Sujoy Modak | Saying ‘Yes’ to loss of information in black hole evaporation | |
17:10 – 17:22 | Chiara Toldo | Black hole bound states in AdS |
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