GWA NW @ LHO
LIGO Hanford Observatory
June 24-25, 2019
AGENDA OVERVIEW
Monday, June 24: LHO Multi-Purpose room
- 9:00 Welcome and coffee
- 9:15 GWA Northwest group overviews
- 10:45 Student and Fellow talks
- 12:00 Lunch
- 1:30 LHO and LIGO status
- 2:30 NANOGrav and IPTA status
- 3:30 LISA status
- 4:30 Outreach discussion
- 6:00 Group dinner
Tuesday, June 25: LHO Multi-Purpose room
- 9:00 Coffee
- 9:15 Tour
- 10:45 Science talks
- 12:30 Lunch
Attendees: UW, UW Bothell, Bellevue College, LHO, UO, UBC, MSU, Caltech
Suggested hotel: Home2 Suites in Richland
DETAILED AGENDA
Monday, June 24: LHO Multi-Purpose room
- 9:00 Welcome and coffee
- Local Organizing Committee: Jeff Kissel
- GWA NW group introductions and overviews
- 9:15 University of Washington Bothell: Joey Key
- 9:30 University of Washington: Krishna Venkateswara
- 9:45 Bellevue College: Gwynne Crowder
- 10:00 University of British Columbia: Deborah Good
- 10:15 Montana State University: Bence Becsy
- 10:30 University of Oregon: Ray Frey
- Student and Fellow talks
- 10:45 Adding Confidence to Stochastic Background Searches through Study of Noise Behaviors: Yi-Ting Huang and Anh Tran, Bellevue College
- 11:00 Source of noise at low frequencies in LIGO Optical Lever measurements: Alexandra Lockwood, UW
- 11:15 Xu (Sundae) Chen, U of Western Australia
- 11:30 Environmental couplings to GW candidates: Philippe Nguyen, UO
- 12:00 Lunch
- 1:30 LIGO status
- LHO status: Georgia Mansell, LHO
- 2:30 NANOGrav and IPTA status
- Pulsar Timing Arrays CHIME in on Gravitational Waves: Deborah Good, UBC
- NANOGrav Pulsar Signal Simulator: Kyle Gersbach, UWB
- 3:30 LISA status
- NASA LISA Study Team: Tuck Stebbins, NLST
- 4:30 Outreach discussion
- LHO SEC
- undergraduate research
- classroom projects
- summer exchanges
- 6:00 Group dinner at Proof Gastropub
Tuesday, June 25: LHO Multi-Purpose room
- 9:00 Coffee
- 9:15 Tour: Jeff Kissel, LHO
- Science talks
- 10:45 Simultaneously searching for individual sources and stochastic background in PTA data: Bence Becsy, MSU
- 11:05 Numerical relativity for vacuum binary black hole simulations: Luisa Buchman, Caltech
- 11:25 Development and deployment of beam rotation sensors for the LIGO seismic isolation system: Michael Ross, UW
- 11:45 Photon calibrator, Pcal: Dripta Bhattacharjee, Missouri Science and Technology
- 12:05 GW+glitch analysis: Bruce Edelman, UO
- 12:30 Lunch
GWANW 2020: June 29 on Zoom