Scientific Program
Monday, May 23
09:15 - 09:30 Badri Krishnan: Introductory remarks
09:30 - 10:30 Duncan Brown: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Benno Willke: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries
12:00 - 13:00 Collin Capano: Detecting and interpreting GW150914 with modeled and unmodeled searches
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Ilya Mandel: GW150914: Astrophysical implications of the discovery
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Tomasz Bulik: The astrohysical origin of GW150914
Tuesday, May 24
09:30 - 10:30 Luc Blanchet: Problem of motion in GR and post-Newtonian theory
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Mark Hannam: Waveform modelling with numerical relativity: the key to decode GW150914
12:00 - 12:30 Andrew Lundgren: Instrumental validation of GW150914
12:30 - 13:00 Alessandro Nagar: The IHES EOB model for coalescing binaries: from black holes to neutron stars
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Alessandra Buonanno: GW150914 and the next challenges in gravitational-wave observations
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Thomas Tauris: GW150914 in Light of Binary Stellar Evolution Models
16:30 - 17:00 Peter Berczik: The DRAGON globular cluster simulations: a million stars, black holes and gravitational waves
Wednesday, May 25
09:30 - 10:30 Samaya Nissanke: Follow the roar of GW150914: localization and electromagnetic follow up of GW events
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Andreas von Kienlin: Fermi GBM Observations of LIGO GW150914
12:00 - 13:00 Tsvi Piran: Electromagnetic Counterparts of Neuton Star Mergers - Past and Future
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Masaru Shibata: Neutron star mergers: Predictions by numerical relativity
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Kenta Kiuchi: The fate of strongly magnetized remnant massive neutron stars formed in low mass binary neutron star mergers
Thursday, May 26
09:30 - 10:30 Chris van den Broeck: Tests of General Relativity using GW150914
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Enrico Barausse: Theoretical implications of gravitational-wave observations
12:00 - 13:00 Thibault Damour: Gravitational Waves, General Relativity and Fundamental Physics
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Bernard Schutz: After GW20150914: Meeting the Challenge of GW Astrophysics
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break