2019 Gravitational Wave Astronomy Northwest Meeting

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

LIGO DCC link

GWANW 2020: June 29 on Zoom