Day 1
Wednesday 2/28/2024
Registration 8:30 - 9:00
Overview of Multimessenger Observations
Convener: Bing Zhang
9:00 - 9:05
Welcome
Dave Hatchett (UNLV)
9:05 - 9:35
Francis Halzen (U. of Wisconsin-Madison)
9:35 - 10:05
An overview of ground-based GW astronomy
Patrick Brady (U. Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
10:05 - 10:35
Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley)
Break 10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:15
Peter Veres (University of Alabama)
11:30 - 11:45
Andrea Sanna (University of Cagliari)
11:45 - 12:15
Panel
Lunch (on your own)
12:15 - 2:15
Neutrino Astrophysics
Convener: Ali Kheirandish
2:15 - 2:45
Naoko Kurahashi (Drexel U.)
3:15 - 3:45
Marcos Santander (University of Alabama)
Break 3:45 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:15
Ava Ghadimi (University of Alabama)
4:15 - 4:30
Jose Carpio (UNLV)
4:30 - 4:45
Identifying Energy-Dependent Flavor Transitions in High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Measurements slides
Qinrui Liu (Queen's University)
4:45 - 5:00
Aswathi Balagopal (UW-Madison)
5:00 - 5:30
Panel
8 pm Symposium Dinner
Bacchanal Buffet, Caesar's palace
Day 2
Thursday 2/29/2024
Astrophysics of Compact Binary Mergers
Convener: Carl-Johan Haster
9:00 - 9:30
Joe Simon (University of Colorado-Boulder)
9:30 - 10:00
Searches for compact-object binaries in the LVK fourth observing run
Surabhi Sachdev (Georgia Tech)
10:00 - 10:30
Tom Callister (University of Chicago)
Break 10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:00
Enabling Multi-Messenger Astronomy through Low-Latency GW-GRB Coincidence Ranking
Naresh Adhikari (UW-Milwaukee)
11:00 - 11:15
Marios Kalomenopoulos (UNLV)
11:15 - 11:30
Black hole mergers driven by a captured low-mass companion
Stephen Lepp (UNLV)
11:30 - 11:45
Mergers of black hole binaries driven by misaligned circumbinary discs slides
Rebecca Martin (UNLV)
11:45 - 12:15
Panel
Lunch (on your own)
12:15 - 2:15
Transients
Convener: Bing Zhang
2:45 - 3:15
Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia University)
3:15 - 3:45
On Kilonova Modeling
Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Break 3:45 - 4:00
4:30 - 4:45
Constraining low- and high-luminosity gamma-ray bursts as sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays slides
Asaf Pe'er (Bar Ilan University)
5:00 - 5:30
Panel
7:30 - 8:30
Frank Astronomy Public Lecture
Bigelow Physics Buidling, BPB 102
Duncan Lorimer
Day 3
Friday 3/1/2024
Physical Processes
Convener: Chris Fryer
Break 10:30 - 10:45
11:15 - 11:30
Vanessa López-Barquero (University of Maryland)
11:30 - 11:45
Hydrodynamic-scale Magnetic Field Model of GRB Afterglow Polarization: Effects of Field Anisotropy, Off-axis Viewing, and Ordered Field slides
Asuka Kuwata (Tohoku University)
11:45 - 12:15
Panel
Lunch (on your own)
Lunch 12:15 - 2:15
Future Experiments
Convener: Marcos Santander
2:45 - 3:15
Stephanie Wissel (Penn State)
3:15 - 3:45
Status of Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory
Petra Huentemeyer (Michigan Tech)
Break 3:45 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:15
Emission properties of massive black hole binaries heading for merger slides
Chi-Ho Chan (Georgia Tech)
4:15 - 4:30
First Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion Flows around Massive Black Hole Binaries Heading for Merger
Vishal Tiwari (Georgia Tech)
4:45- 5:15
Panel on Future Experiments