2020 Gravitational Wave Astronomy Northwest Meeting

Gravitational Wave Astronomy Northwest

Monday June 29, 2020

AGENDA OVERVIEW (all times Pacific US)

  • 9:00 Welcome
  • 9:15 GWA NW group projects and challenges
  • 11:15 Student and Fellow talks
  • 12:30 Lunch
  • 1:30 LHO and LVK status
  • 2:00 NANOGrav and IPTA status
  • 2:30 LISA status
  • 3:00 Coffee break
  • 3:30 Science talks
  • 4:30 Outreach discussion

Attendees: Bellevue College, LHO, MSU, OSU, UBC, UO, UW, UW Bothell, WWU

DETAILED AGENDA (all times Pacific US)

  • 9:00 Welcome
    • Organizing Committee: Jeff Kissel
  • GWA NW group projects and challenges
    • 9:15 University of Washington Bothell: Joey Key
    • 9:30 University of Washington: Michael Ross
    • 9:45 Bellevue College: Gwynne Crowder
    • 10:00 University of British Columbia: Jess McIver
    • 10:15 Montana State University: Neil Cornish
    • 10:30 University of Oregon: Ray Frey & Ben Farr
    • 10:45 Oregon State University: Xavi Siemens
    • 11:00 Western Washington University: Svenja Fleischer
  • Student and Fellow talks
    • 11:15 Katie Rink, UBC: Data Quality Studies in LIGO’s 3rd Observing Run
    • 11:30 Kyle Gersbach, UWB: A Solution to LISA’s Galactic Binary Problem
    • 11:45 Tim Kostersitz, UWB: Improvement of Outer Boundary Conditions for Binary Black Hole Numerical Simulations
    • 12:00 Adrian Helmling-Cornell, UO: Blip Glitches at LHO
  • 12:30 Lunch with breakout rooms
  • 1:30 LVK status: Keita Kawabe, LHO
  • 1:45 LHO status: Jenne Driggers, LHO
  • 2:00 NANOGrav and IPTA status: Jeff Hazboun, UWB
  • 2:30 LISA status: Tuck Stebbins, NLST
  • 3:00 Coffee break with breakout rooms
  • Science talks
    • 3:30 Ansel Neunzert, UWB: Noise Characterization for Continuous Wave Searches
    • 3:45 Bence Bécsy, MSU: Joint Search for Isolated Sources and a Stochastic Background in PTA Data
    • 4:00 Nima Laal, OSU: Stochastic Gravitational Wave Detection
    • 4:15 Jerry Sun, OSU: Red Noise in the 12p5-year NANOGrav Data Set
  • Outreach discussion
    • 4:30 Amber Strunk, LHO: LIGO Exploration Center (LExC) and International Gravity Outreach Group (iGrav)

LIGO DCC link

GWANW 2020 Zoom group photos

GWANW 2021: June 27-28 on Zoom

 

Past meetings:

GWANW 2019

LIGO WA 2018