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08:30
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--- Coffee, Pastries & Name Tags ---
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08:45
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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Senior Associate Dean Prof. Chris Clemens
(Room 011, Sitterson Hall)
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08:52
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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CoSMS Institute Director Prof. John Wilkerson
(Room 011, Sitterson Hall)
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09:00
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Update on LIGO
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Aaron Zimmerman
(Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
(Sitterson 011)
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10:00
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Prospects for observing extreme-mass-ratio inspirals with LISA
- Dr.
Jonathan Gair
(University of Edinburgh)
(Sitterson 011)
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11:00
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--- Break ---
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11:30
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Solving for binary inspiral dynamics using renormalization group methods
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Chad Galley
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
(Sitterson 011)
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08:30
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--- Coffee & Pastries ---
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09:00
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Computing inspirals and waveforms using the self-force
- Dr.
Niels Warburton
(University College Dublin)
(Sitterson 011)
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10:00
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First order gravitational self-force on generic bound orbits in Kerr spacetime
- Dr.
Maarten van de Meent
(AEI Potsdam-Golm)
(Sitterson 011)
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11:00
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--- Break ---
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11:30
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Time-domain metric reconstruction for self-force applications
- Prof.
Leor Barack
(University of Southampton)
(Sitterson 011)
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08:30
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--- Coffee & Pastries ---
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09:00
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Progress at second order
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Adam Pound
(University of Southampton)
(Sitterson 011)
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10:00
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Effective Source Calculations Through Second Perturbative Order
- Dr.
Barry Wardell
(University College Dublin)
(Sitterson 011)
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11:00
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--- Break ---
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11:30
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Effective source formulations in the Regge-Wheeler gauge
- Mr.
Jonathan Thompson
(University of Florida)
(Sitterson 011)
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08:30
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--- Coffee & Pastries ---
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09:00
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The laws of binary black hole mechanics: an update
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Alexandre Le Tiec
(Observatoire de Paris)
(Sitterson 011)
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10:00
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Effective-one-body modeling of binary black holes in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy
- Dr.
Andrea Taracchini
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Potsdam)
(Sitterson 011)
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11:00
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--- Break ---
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11:30
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Scattering of two spinning black holes and effective-one-body mappings
- Dr.
Justin Vines
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
(Sitterson 011)
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08:30
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--- Coffee & Pastries ---
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09:00
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--- Research Collaborations ---
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10:00
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--- Focused Discussion: Analytic Function Expansion Methods ---
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11:00
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--- Break ---
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11:30
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--- Focused Discussion: Unstable Modes in Lorenz Gauge ---
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12:00
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Regularization via the Detweiler-Whiting Singular Field
- Dr.
Anna Heffernan
(University of Florida)
(Sitterson 011)
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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Scattering events in Schwarzschild spacetime
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Seth Hopper
(Instituto Superior Técnico)
(Sitterson 011)
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14:30
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Eccentric Orbit EMRIs: Enhanced Method for Determining Analytical Flux Coefficients to 7 PN.
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Christopher Munna
(UNC Chapel Hill)
(Sitterson 011)
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15:00
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Progress towards multiscale EMRI approximation: zones and scales
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Jordan Moxon
(Cornell University)
(Sitterson 011)
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15:30
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--- Break ---
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16:00
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The nonspinning binary black hole merger scenario revisited
- Prof.
Carlos Lousto
(Rochester Institute of Technology)
(Sitterson 011)
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16:30
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Merger Simulation Using the Parker Sochacki Method and Finite Element Analysis, in a Model Explicitly Consistent with Quantum Mechanics.
- Mr.
Joseph Rudmin
(James Madison University)
(Sitterson 011)
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17:00
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--- Discussion ---
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12:00
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Evolution of small-mass-ratio binaries with a spinning secondary
- Dr.
Thomas Osburn
(Oxford College of Emory University)
(Sitterson 011)
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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Transient Instabilities of Nearly Extremal Black holes
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Aaron Zimmerman
(Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
(Sitterson 011)
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14:30
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Scalar self-force and QNM excitation for highly eccentric orbits in Kerr spacetime
- Dr.
Jonathan Thornburg
(Indiana University, Astronomy Dept)
(Sitterson 011)
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15:00
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Towards the self-consistent evolution of a scalar charge around a Schwarzschild black hole.
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Peter Diener
(Louisiana State University)
(Sitterson 011)
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15:30
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--- Break ---
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16:00
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Scalar self-force for generic bound orbits on Kerr
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Zach Nasipak
(The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
(Sitterson 011)
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16:30
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Self-force on a scalar charge in circular orbits about a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole
- Mr.
Jezreel Castillo
(National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman)
(Sitterson 011)
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17:00
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--- Discussion ---
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12:00
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A near-horizon expansion of second-order black hole perturbations
- Dr.
Kei Yamada
(Kyoto Universiry)
(Sitterson 011)
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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--- Focused Discussion (A. Pound & B. Wardell): Progress and challenges at second order ---
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15:30
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--- Break ---
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16:00
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Overcharging Higher-dimensional Black holes using point particles
- Mr.
Karl Simon Revelar
(University of the Philippines)
(Sitterson 011)
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16:30
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General-Relativistic Dynamics of an Extreme Mass-Ratio Binary with an External Body
- Dr.
Huan Yang
(Princeton University)
(Sitterson 011)
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17:00
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--- Discussion ---
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18:00
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--- Reception & Dinner ---
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12:00
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--- Research Collaborations ---
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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--- Focused Discussion (J. Vines): EOB ---
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15:00
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--- Break ---
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15:30
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Discussion on EMRI/IMRI using numerical relativity
- Prof.
Bernard Schutz
(Cardiff University and AEI)
(Room 011, Sitterson Hall)
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15:45
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--- Focused Discussion: EMRI/IMRI Using Numerical Relativity ---
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16:30
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Capra roundup: perspective and prospects.
- Prof.
Bernard Whiting
(University of Florida)
(Sitterson 011)
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17:00
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--- Discussion ---
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12:30
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--- Lunch ---
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14:00
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--- Focused Discussion: Long-Term Evolution ---
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15:00
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--- Research Collaborations ---
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