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

IceCube: The First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy slides

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

Electromagnetic Counterparts of Multimessenger Phenomena slides

Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley)

Break 10:35 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

The latest results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor slides

Peter Veres (University of Alabama)

11:15 - 11:30

Neutrino emission from promising AGN sources slides

Sreetama Goswami (UNLV)

11:30 - 11:45

The HERMES/SpIRIT project: Hunting for Gravitational Wave Electromagnetic Counterparts slides

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

Observation of High-Energy Neutrinos from the Milky Way slides

Naoko Kurahashi (Drexel U.)

2:45- 3:15

Are X-rays the new 𝛾-rays in neutrino astronomy slides

Imre Bartos

3:15 - 3:45

Electromagnetic Searches for Neutrino Counterparts in the Coming Decade slides

Marcos Santander (University of Alabama)

Break 3:45 - 4:00

4:00 - 4:15

Search for high-energy neutrinos from magnetars with IceCube slides

Ava Ghadimi (University of Alabama)

4:15 - 4:30

High-energy neutrino emission from magnetized jets in protomagnetars slides

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

IceCube search for sub-TeV neutirno emission from transients slides

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

Pulsar Timing Array observations of nanohertz gravitational waves slides

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

The population of compact objects inferred from gravitational wave observations slides

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

Solving the binary black holes formation mystery with Gaussianised correlations slides

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

2:15 - 2:45

Recent Observation of Peculiar GRBs slides

Binbin Zhang (Nanjing University)

2:45 - 3:15

The growing population of fast radio bursts slides

Duncan Lorimer (West Virginia University)

3:15 - 3:45

On Kilonova Modeling

Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Break 3:45 - 4:00

4:00 - 4:30

Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with THESEUS slides

Lorenzo Amati

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)

4:45 - 5:00

Precursors from compact binary mergers slides

Simone Dichiara (Penn State)

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

9:00 - 9:30

Stochastic Particle Acceleration slides

Martin Lemoine (Paris Institute of Astrophysics)

9:30 - 10:00

Particle Acceleration in jets and coronae slides

Luca Comisso (Columbia U.)

10:00 - 10:30

The astrophysics of compact objects slides

Katie Breivik (Carnegie Mellon U.)

Break 10:30 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:00

Coherent inverse Compton scattering in Fast Radio Bursts slides

Yuanhong Qu (UNLV)

11:00 - 11:15

Evidence of a Past Merger of the Galactic Center Black Hole slides

Yihan Wang (UNLV)

11:15 - 11:30

Chaos, Magnetic Fields, and the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy slides

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

2:15 - 2:45

GW sources in LISA era slides

Tamara Bogdanovic (Georgia Tech)

2:45 - 3:15

Neutrino astronomy at ultra-high energies with future neutrino experiments slides

 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)

4:30 - 4:45

Searching for the next 170817A with Swift-BAT GUANO slides

James DeLaunay (Penn State)

4:45- 5:15

Panel on Future Experiments