Detailed Talk Schedule

Italicized talks will be delivered virtually via Zoom.

Monday, August 10:

9:00 AM: Welcome & Intro -- Jenne Driggers (LIGO Hanford)

9:30 AM: Observatory Overviews
-LISA Overview: Aryamann Rao (UBC)
-LIGO Overview: Louis Daretz
-PTA/NANOGrav Overview: Jeremy Baier (OSU)

11:00: Coffee Break

11:30: Contributed Talks Block I: Detector Characterization and Noise Reduction II
-Sukanta Bose (WSU), "Improved Binary Black Hole Search Discriminator from the Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Gaussian Noise Transients"
-Kexuan Wu (WSU), "CoBiTS: Single-detector discrimination of binary black hole signals from glitches using deep learning"
-Owen Helin (UBC), "Machine Learning Explainability for GSpyNetTree-O4 Data Analysis"
-Rida Rashid (UBC), "Untangling Black Hole Mergers: Machine Learning for LISA Signal Detection"

12:30: Lunch

1:30: Outreach Talk/Discussion

3:00: Coffee Break

3:30: Contributed Talks Block II: Neutron stars and GRBs
-Amlan Nanda (WSU), "Parameter estimation of Population, Cosmology, and Equation of State parameters from a population of Dark Binary Neutron Star mergers."
-Lance Blagg (UO), "The Search for Gravitational Waves from Magnetar Bursts"
-Derryck Hughes & Oliver Hughes (UM), "Exploration of Pulsar Variability with CHIME"
-Stephanie Poole (OSU), "Searching for Extreme Scattering Events in the IPTA DR3"
-Genevieve Connolly (UO), "Gravitational Waves from Collapsar Accretion Disks"
-Rachel Langgin (UNLV), "Gravitational-Wave informed pointing of short-gamma-ray bursts observations"

6:30 pm: Conference Dinner at 3 Eyed Fish Kitchen and Bar

Tuesday, August 11:

9:00: LIGO Tour

10:30: Coffee Break

11:00: Machine Learning Session with PNNL

12:30: Lunch

1:30: Contributed Talks III: Detector Characterization and Noise Reduction II
-Shrey Goel (UCB), "Measuring Environmental Noise for Cosmic Explorer Site Selection"
-Jonathan Olson (UO/LIGO), "Characterizing Lightning Induced Magnetic Noise and Beamtube Currents in the LIGO Hanford Observatory"
-Mathilda Damon (Brown University), "Removing Earthquake Noise During Detector Earthquake Mode"
-Khanh Vu (Mount Holyoke College), "Optimization of Alignment Sensing and Control Loops for the Jitter Attenuation Cavity"
-Sierra Ford (UBC), "A machine learning approach for automation of LIGO data quality vetoes"
-Serena Zhu (UBC), "Automation of Narrow Spectral Artifact Investigations Using Clustering"

3:00: Coffee Break

3:30: Contributed Talks IV: Black Hole Astrophysics
-Connor Camacho (WSU), "Symmetries in Effective Field Operators for Kerr Black Holes"
-Ivan Juarez Reyes (UO), "Modeling Compact Binary Coalescences with Bivariate B-splines"
-Clare Nelle (UO), "GiddyUp! Horseshoe priors for varying sparsity the binary black hole population"
-Aislinn McCann (UO), "Population Inference acroos the Full Neutron-Star Black-Hole Spectrum"

4:30: Wrap-up and Adjourn

Evening: Student activity (likely at Moonshot Brewing)

Wednesday (August 12):

9:00: Introduction to Gravitational Waves -- Deborah Good (UM)

9:30: LISA Tutorial -- Aryamann Rao (UBC)

11:00: LIGO Tutorial Part I -- Jennie Wright (LIGO)

12:30: Lunch

1:30: LIGO Tutorial Part II -- Rachel Langgin (UNLV)

3:00: PTA Tutorial -- Deborah Good (UM)