2021 Gravitational Wave Astronomy Northwest Meeting

Gravitational Wave Astronomy Northwest

Monday June 28, 2021

GWANW student workshop on Zoom (all times Pacific US)

  • 10:00 Welcome and introductions
  • 10:15 GWA overview with Jess McIver
  • 11:00 LIGO tutorial with Adrian Helmling-Cornell and Sylvia Biscoveanu
  • 12:30 Lunch with optional breakout rooms
  • 1:30 NANOGrav tutorial with Aaron Johnson and Bence Bécsy
  • 3:00 Iced coffee break with optional breakout rooms
  • 3:30 LISA tutorial with Tyson Littenberg and Jeff Hazboun
  • 4:30 Summary and wrap-up

Folder with workshop slides

Tuesday June 29, 2021

GWANW meeting on Zoom (all times Pacific US)

  • 9:00 Welcome
  • 9:10 GW observatory status reports
  • 10:10 GWA NW group projects and challenges
  • 12:30 Lunch with optional breakout rooms
  • 1:30 Student and Fellow talks
  • 2:45 Coffee break with optional breakout rooms
  • 3:15 Outreach discussion

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

DETAILED AGENDA (all times Pacific US)

  • 9:00 Welcome
    • Organizing Committee: Jeff Kissel
  • GW observatory status reports
    • 9:10 LISA status: Ira Thorpe, NASA Goddard
    • 9:30 NANOGrav and IPTA status: Jeff Hazboun, UWB
    • 9:50 LHO and LVK status: Georgia Mansell, LHO
  • GWANW group projects and challenges
    • 10:10 University of Washington Bothell: Joey Key
    • 10:25 University of Washington: Michael Ross
    • 10:40 Washington State University: Matt Duez
    • 10:55 Bellevue College: Gwynne Crowder
    • 11:10 University of British Columbia: Jess McIver
    • 11:25 Montana State University: Neil Cornish
    • 11:40 University of Oregon: Ben Farr
    • 11:55 Oregon State University: Xavi Siemens
    • 12:10 Western Washington University: Svenja Fleischer
  • 12:30 Lunch with optional breakout rooms
  • Student and Fellow talks
    • 1:30 Resolving Features in LIGO/Virgo’s Black Hole Mass Spectrum: Bruce Edelman, UO
    • 1:45 Prospects for measuring off-axis spins of binary black hole sources with A+/AdV: Alan Knee, UBC
    • 2:00 Prospects for Reconstructing the Gravitational Wave Signal from Core-Collapse Supernovae in Advanced LIGO-Virgo: Nayyer Raza, UBC
    • 2:15 Continuous Wave Searches with LIGO: Ansel Neunzert, UWB
    • 2:30 Initial Results from the LIGO Newtonian Calibrator: Colin Weller, UW
  • 2:45 Coffee break with optional breakout rooms
  • Outreach discussion
    • 3:15 LIGO Exploration Center (LExC) and International Gravity Outreach Group (IGrav): Amber Strunk, LHO

LIGO DCC link to presentation slides

 

2021 group screenshots

 

GWANW 2022 June 27-29 at LHO

Past meetings:

GWANW 2020

GWANW 2019

LIGO WA 2018