Scientific Program
Scientific Program
This is going to be an unusual (but hopefully productive!) format. We'd like the entire conference to revolve around the following three open questions in GW populations. All three themes require key inputs from both astro modelers and data analysts.
Parametrization. Design a parametrized model with meaningful astro parameters. Relation between parametrized and nonparametric models: interpretability vs flexibility. What do we learn from which approach? Complementarity?
Session leaders: Monica Gallegos-Garcia, Jack Heinzel, Tassos Fragos, Reinhold Willcox.
Correlation. It's time to go beyond marginals: are mass/redshift/spins/other correlated? Are current claims premature? How to decide? What are the astro predictions? Today, tomorrow, or 3G? Are the extrinsic parameters important for population studies?
Session leaders: Martyna Chruslinska, Tristan Bruel, Matt Mould, Simone Mastrogiovanni.
Falsification. From the astro side: go through your favorite pet channel (or subchannel or whatever) and list things that the model *cannot* possibly predict. From the data side: how do we say that our model is (not) good enough?
Session leaders: Selma de Mink, Hiromichi Tagawa, Isobel Romero-Shaw, Jon Gair.
We are planning to dedicate the first day (Monday) to the introduction of these three themes. We will then work on one theme per day on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Finally, Friday (which is only half a day) will be dedicated to making plans and deciding if/how to go forward with these topics.
Session leaders will solicit mini-talks / contributions from workshop participants, organize discussion sessions, breakout groups to work on paper ideas, etc. In addition, we are planning to dedicate <~1h per day to flash talks for people who do not otherwise get to introduce themselves during the main sessions.
We think these three themes are the open questions in our field and, ideally, our findings can help GW astronomy going forward. Let's see how things go, but it would be great if the outcome of this workshop could be documented in some form (a list of open problems on a website? a mini-review? a set of notes? a paper?). It could be three different documents or a single one.
Legacy material (for conference participants only): this directory
9.00am - 9.15am. Registration ✨
9.15am - 10am. Three questions intro ✨ (Davide Gerosa, Ilya Mandel) Slides
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Problem setup: Parametrization 🚀
11.30am - 4.00pm. Lunch and Snow ❄️
4.00pm - 4.30pm. Refreshments served at the hotel ☕
4.30pm - 5.30pm. Problem setup: Correlation 🔥
5.30pm - 6.30pm. Problem setup: Falsification 🐲
9.00am - 10.00am. Working on the Parametrization problem 🚀
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Working on the Parametrization problem 🚀
11.30am - 4.00pm. Lunch and Snow ❄️
4.00pm - 4.30pm. Refreshments served at the hotel ☕
4.30pm - 5.30pm. Working on the Parametrization problem 🚀
5.30pm - 6.30pm. Flash talks 📽️: Chruslinska, Riley, Galaudage, Talbot, Tagawa, Farr, Borchers, De Renzis, Mastrogiovanni, Fumagalli, Zevin, Reali, Plunkett [chair 🪑: Michele Mancarella]. Slides.
7.00pm. Drinks! at the main hotel 🍸
9.00am - 10.00am. Working on the Correlation problem 🔥
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Working on the Correlation problem 🔥
11.30am - 4.00pm. Lunch and Snow ❄️
4.00pm - 4.30pm. Refreshments served at the hotel ☕
4.30pm - 5.30pm. Working on the Correlation problem 🔥
5.30pm - 6.30pm. Flash talks 📽️: Green, Mancarella, Artale, Willcox, Gerosa, Korb, Fragos, Stegmann, de Mink, Mandel, Holz, Romero-Shaw [chair🪑: Arianna Renzini]. Slides.
8.45pm. Torchlight hike on the snow! 🏔
9.00am - 10.00am. Working on the Falsification problem 🐲
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Working on the Falsification problem 🐲
11.30am - 4.00pm. Lunch and Snow ❄️
4.00pm - 4.30pm. Refreshments served at the hotel ☕
4.30pm - 5.30pm. Working on the Falsification problem 🐲
5.30pm - 6.30pm. Flash talks 📽️: Gair, Xing, Picco, Mould, Samsing, Bruel, Heinzel, Biscoveanu, Callister, Rinaldi, Kapil, Renzini, Roulet [chair🪑: Jakob Stegmann]. Slides.
Conference dinner (still at the main hotel)
9.00am - 10.00am. Future plans ✨ Slides.
10.00am - 10.30am. Break 🤌
10.30am - 11.30am. Future plans ✨