2022 ASPEN WINTER CONFERENCE
Dynamical Formation of Gravitational Wave Sources
January 2 – 7, 2022 | In-Person Conference | Aspen Center for Physics
Schedule of Talks
Morning sessions start at 8:30 AM.
Evening sessions start at 4:30 PM.
MONDAY
Morning — Observations and GW Source Populations [Chair: Fred Rasio]
Maya Fishbach – Astrophysical Lessons from GW Source Catalogs
Debnandini Mukherjee – Searching for the Giants: Search for IMBHs in LIGO-Virgo O3
Jessica Lu – Hunting for Black Holes in the Milky Way
Karan Jani – Finding IMBHs from Earth, Moon, and Space
Luke Kelley – MBH Binaries: their Dynamical Assembly and Low-frequency GWs
Alex Kusenko – Primordial Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Other Astrophysical Manifestations
Evening — Overview of BBH Formation Channels [Chair: Vicky Kalogera]
Zoheyr Doctor – Data-Driven Modeling of BH-Merger Population Distributions
Will Farr – Confusion in Black Hole Spins
Chris Belczynski – The Crossroads between Isolated Binary and Dynamical Formation of BBH Mergers
Jeff Andrews – Next Generation Binary Population Synthesis with POSYDON
General Discussion led by Daniel Holz – How do we disentangle formation channels?
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TUESDAY
Morning — Dense Star Clusters and Hierarchical Mergers [Chair: Smadar Naoz]
Kyle Kremer – Modeling the Dynamics of Compact Objects in Globular Clusters
Nicholas Rui – Peeking inside Globular Clusters with Monte Carlo
Newlin Weatherford – Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Observational Validation and Massive Mergers
Barry Ginat – Binary – Single Encounters as Random Walks (R)
Chase Kimball – Hierarchical Mergers in LIGO-Virgo O3
Giacomo Fragione – Closing the Gap in the BH Mass Spectrum with New Detections of IMBHs
Mike Zevin – Growing Black Holes: The Impact of Retention Efficiency on Hierarchical Mergers and the BBH Mass Spectrum
Evening — Connection to Massive Star Formation and Star Cluster Formation [Chair: Jessica Lu]
Katie Breivik – Black Hole Binary Formation: a Multi-messenger, Multi-band Puzzle
Ugo Di Carlo – Young Star Clusters: Shaping BBH Progenitors
Elena González – Growing Massive Stars and Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
William Lake – SIGOs: Proposed Progenitors to Globular Clusters, and their Connection to GW Anisotropies
Carl Rodriguez – The Evolution and GW Production of Star Clusters in a Milky-Way-mass Galaxy
General Discussion led by Floor Broekgaarden – What can we really learn about massive stars from all this?
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WEDNESDAY
Morning — Triples and Quadruples [Chair: Carl Rodriguez]
Yubo Su – Observational Signatures of Tertiary-Induced Binary Black Hole Mergers
Erez Michaely – GW and EM Sources from Wide Binaries in the Field (R)
Hagai Perets – The Ultra-wide Binaries and Triples Channel for GW Sources (R)
Pavan Vynatheya – Gravitational Waves from Quadruple Stars
Johan Samsing – Distinguishing Dynamical Formation Channels Apart Using Burst Timing
Miguel Martinez – Hierarchical Triples in Dense Star Clusters
Imre Bartos – Has LIGO Detected Eccentric Black Hole Mergers
No evening session
Public Lecture by Andrea Ghez at Wheeler Opera House
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THURSDAY
Morning — Hydrodynamics and Neutron Stars [Chair: Steinn Sigurdsson]
Wenbin Lu – Aftermath of White Dwarf Tidal Capture
Claire Ye – Neutron Star Binary Mergers from Globular Clusters
Scott Ransom – A New Wave of Globular Cluster Pulsars (R)
Miguel Holgado – The Role of Strong Gravity, the Nuclear Equation of State, and Accretion for Double Neutron Star Formation
Andris Dorozsmai – The Importance of Stable Mass Transfer Phases for GW Source Formation
Maxim Lyutikov – EM Precursors to Gravitational Wave Sources
Lan Nguyen – Self-Interacting Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves
Evening — Nuclear Star Clusters and Massive Black Holes [Chair: Andrea Ghez]
Anil Seth – Nuclear Star Clusters Present and Past
Sanaea Rose – On the Dynamical Formation of Intermediate- and Extreme-Mass Ratio Inspirals
Itai Linial – Quasi-periodic X-ray Eruptions from Stars Inspiraling towards a SMBH
Re’em Sari – Mass Segregation in Nuclear Stellar Clusters
Charlotte Ward – Tracing the Masses and Spins of IMBH and SMBH Merger Populations with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Andrés Escala – On the Fate of SMBHs in Galaxy Mergers: Possible Sources for LISA
Barak Rom – BBH Mergers in the Extreme Mass Ratio Limit: Universal Recoil Coefficient
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FRIDAY
Morning — AGN Disks and Other Gas-rich Environments [Chair: Anil Seth]
Mor Rozner – Binary Evolution and GW Mergers in Second-generation Gas-enriched Globular Clusters (R)
Hareesh Bhaskar – Black Hole Mergers Through Evection Resonances
Barry McKernan – The AGN Channel for Compact Object Mergers
Saavik Ford – Implications of the AGN Channel for BBH Mergers
Matthew Graham – Searching for the Impossible: Looking for EM Counterparts to BBH Mergers
Gayathri Vivekenanthaswamy – Black Hole Mergers of AGN Origin in LIGO-Virgo O1-O3a
Bence Kocsis – Binary Formation and Mergers in AGN
11:30 AM: conference ends