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KITP Program: The New Era of Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astrophysics
(May 13 - Jul 19, 2019)
Coordinators: Duncan Brown, Daniel Holz, Brian Metzger, and Alberto Sesana
Scientific Advisors: Alessandra Buonanno, Elena Gallo, Selma E. de Mink, Frans Pretorius, and Eliot Quataert

Time Speaker Title
5/13, 2:00pm All Participants Welcome
5/14, 9:30am Vasileios Paschalidis
University of Arizona & KITP
What have we really learned about the nuclear equation of state from GW170817?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/15, 9:30am Ben Margalit
UC Berkeley & KITP
What have we really learned about the nuclear equation of state from GW170817?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/17, 2:00pm All Participants Weekly wrap-up meeting
5/20, 3:30pm All Participants All-participants organizational meeting
5/21, 1:00pm Nicolas Yunes
Montana State University & KITP
Nearly Impossible Compact Objects
5/24, 2:00pm All Participants Weekly wrap-up meeting
5/28, 9:30am All Participants organizational meeting
5/29, 9:30am Duncan Brown
Syracuse & KITP
So FAR, So Good: Detection of Binary Mergers[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/30, 9:30am Rob Farmer
Univ. of Amsterdam & KITP
How to Make Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/30, 9:30am Jim Fuller
Caltech & KITP
The Spins of Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/31, 2:00pm Andrew MacFadyen
NYU & KITP
Dynamics and EM Signatures of Binary Black Hole Accretion[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/03, 2:00pm All Participants Organizational meeting
6/06, 9:30am Jennifer Barnes
(Columbia & KITP)
Ryan Chornock
(Ohio U & KITP)
Kilonova Modelling[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/10, 2:00pm All Participants organizational meeting
6/11, 9:30am Chuck Horowitz
Indiana University & KITP
Gravitational waves and the nature of dense matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/12, 9:30am Chris Belczynski
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center & KITP
Black Hole Spins[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/12, 3:00pm Cole Miller
(Maryland & KITP)
Tamara Bogdanovic
(Georgia Tech & KITP)
Gaseous Dynamical Friction in Presence of BH Radiative Feedback[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/13, 9:30am Julian Krolik
JHU & KITP
How Can We Find Supermassive Binary Black Holes?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/14, 2:00pm All Participants TBA
06/17 12:15pm Dan Kasen
Berkeley & KITP
Light and Gravitational Waves from Merging Stars[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
6/17, 2:00pm All Participants Organizational meeting
6/18, 9:30am Emanuele Berti
Johns Hopkins & KITP
On multiband GW astronomy: What are we learning from gravitational wave observations of merging binaries, and what do we need to learn more?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/19, 9:30am Daniel Holz
University of Chicago & KITP
Cosmology with standard sirens and the Hubble constant tension: an outlook[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/20, 9:30am Doug Lin
UC Santa Cruz & KITP
Stellar rejuvenation and gravitational waves in AGN disks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
6/21, 2:00pm All Participants TBA
06/24-27 Conference: Merging Visions: Exploring Compact-Object Binaries with Gravity and Light
7/01, 2:00pm All Participants Meet and Greet
7/02, 9:30am Philipp Podsiadlowski
Oxford & KITP
Cosmic Rates of Black Hole Mergers and Pair-Instability Supernovae from Chemically Homogeneous Binary Evolution[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/03, 9:30am Sterl Phinney
Caltech & KITP
Beyond Binaries & Electromagnetic counterparts of LIGO binary black hole mergers[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/08, 2:00pm All Participants Weekly welcome meeting
7/09, 9:30am Alberto Sesana
(Universita` di Milano Bicocca & KITP)
Ian Harry & KITP
(University of Portsmouth)
What LISA can do for you and what you can do for LISA[Slides][Aud][Cam]
7/10, 9:30am Cole Miller
University of Maryland & KITP
What your competitor's BBH model can't do[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/11, 10:00am Ian Harry
Portsmouth & KITP
Adventures in LISA data analysis[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/12, 1:30pm Brian Metzger
Columbia & KITP
Predictions for the Diversity of Kilonova Counterparts of NS-BH and NS-NS Mergers[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/15, 12:30pm All Participants Bring-a-plot
7/16, 9:30am Carl Rodriguez
MIT & KITP
Eccentricity of binaries: What, where and why?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/16, 10:30am Lisa Randall
Harvard & KITP
Binaries: Measuring Eccentricity w/o Measuring Eccentricity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/17, 10:00am Richard O'Shaughnessy
RIT & KITP
Eccentricity of binaries[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/17, 10:40am Ian Harry
Syracuse & KITP
Beyond LIGOs Black Holes: Are There More?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/18, 9:30am Alessandra Buonanno
AEI & KITP
Ever more physics in gravitational waveform models[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

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