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
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
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