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SYMPOSIUM
Picture Credit: Vivishek Sudhir
8:30am - 9:00am
Arrival and Registration
Arrival and Registration
9:00am - 9:05am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Lisa Barsotti (MIT)
9:05am - 9:30am
Rai's Scientific Legacy
Rai's Scientific Legacy
Peter Fritschel (MIT)
9:30am - 10:30am
Big Questions in Astrophysics
Big Questions in Astrophysics
Chair: David Kaiser (MIT)
Speakers: Scott Hughes (MIT), Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern University)
Bernard Schutz (Cardiff University), Bruce Allen (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
Lyman Page (Princeton University)
Break 10:30am - 11:00am
11:00am - 12:00
Cosmic Microwave Background
Cosmic Microwave Background
Chair: Lyman Page (Princeton University)
Panelists: Andrew Jefferies, Ed Cheng, Mark Halpern, John Mather (NASA)
Speaker: Sam Day-Weiss (Princeton University)
Lunch 12:00pm - 1:00pm
(lunch will be provided)
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Primordial Black Holes
Primordial Black Holes
Chair: Peter Fisher (MIT)
Speakers: Alexandra Klipfel (MIT), Benjamin Lehmann (MIT)
1:30pm - 1:45pm
Cosmic Coda
Cosmic Coda
Mary-Jane Doherty (Boston University)
1:45pm - 3:15pm
LIGO Instrumentation
LIGO Instrumentation
Chair: David Reitze (Caltech)
Speakers: Fred Dylla (American Institute of Physics), Mike Zucker (MIT & Caltech),
Joseph Giaime (Lousiana State University), Stan Whitcomb (Caltech),
Rana Adhikari (Caltech), Matthew Evans (MIT)
Break 3:15pm - 3:45pm
3:45pm - 4:45pm
Rai's Stories
Rai's Stories
Chair: Nergis Mavalvala (MIT)
Short remarks from colleagues: Richard Isaacson, Fred Raab,
B.S. Sathyaprakash, David Tanner, Zsolt Frei, Bruno Coppi, Steve Penn, Valera Frolov,
Stefan Ballmer, Vivishek Sudhir, Salvatore Vitale
4:45pm - 5:30pm
Bringing Rai's legacy into the future
Bringing Rai's legacy into the future
Cosmic Coda transition
Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez (Louisiana State University)
Speakers and Panelists: Antonios Kontos (Bard College), Nancy Aggarwal (UC Davis),
Sylvia Biscoveanu (Princeton University)
Closing
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