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Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

Day 1

Wednesday 2/26/2025

Registration 8:30 - 9:00

Overview of Multimessenger Observations

Convener: Bing Zhang

9:00 - 9:05

Welcome

Dean Eric L. Chronister (UNLV College of Sciences)

9:05 - 9:35

Neutrino overview and results

Marcos Santander (University of Alabama)

9:35 - 10:05

GW overview slides 

Jocelyn Read (CSU Fullerton)

10:05 - 10:35

EM overview and results

Hui Sun

Break 10:35 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

SNe Ia, GRB and Quasar cosmology: new statistical assumptions slides 

Maria Giovanna Dainotti (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

11:15 - 11:30

Characterizing High-Energy Neutrino Emission Parameters in Bright Seyfert Galaxies and Quasars

Jose Carpio (UNLV) 

11:30 - 11:45

Multimessenger Horizon slides 

Eobard Ding (UNLV)

11:45 - 12:15

Panel

Marcos Santander, Jocelyn Read, Hui Sun, Maria Giovanna Dainotti

Lunch (on your own) 

12:15 - 2:15

Neutrino Astrophysics

Convener: Ali Kheirandish

2:15 - 2:45

Multimessenger emission from the primary sources of high-energy cosmic neutrinos slides 

Kohta Murase (Penn State University)

2:45- 3:15

Deciphering the Galactic and extragalactic high-energy neutrino flux slides  

Tianlu Yuan (University of Wisconsin)

3:15 - 3:45

Neutrino Astrophysics with KM3NeT slides 

Nick Kamp (Harvard University) 

Break 3:45 - 4:00

4:00 - 4:15

Evidence of Neutrino Emission from X-ray Bright Seyfert Galaxies

Shiqi Yu (University of Utah)

4:15 - 4:30

All-Sky Search for Astrophysical Neutrino Sources with IceCube Tracks and Cascades slides 

 Riya Shah (Drexel University)

4:30 - 4:45

Search for neutrinos from Compton Thick AGN with IceCube slides 

 Sreetama Goswami (UNLV)

 

4:45 - 5:15

Panel

Kohta Murase, Tianlu Yuan, Nick Kamp

 7 pm     Symposium Dinner

 The Strat

Day 2

Thursday 2/27/2025

Astrophysics of Compact Binary Mergers

Convener:  Carl-Johan Haster

9:00 - 9:30

What is new in GW searches, and how is that important for MMA science slides 

Michael Coughlin (University of Minnesota)

9:30 - 10:00

Inferring the Neutron Star Equation of State slides 

Reed Essick (University of Toronto)

10:00 - 10:30

Targeted gravitational-wave search for compact binaries using a GstLAL pipeline : Towards medium-latency followup slides 

Leo Tsukada (UNLV) 

Break 10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:15

Unveiling BBH formation pathways through parameters correlations slides 

 Marios Kalomenopoulos (UNLV)

11:15 - 11:30

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Searches for Sub-solar mass Binaries slides 

 Shio Sakon (Penn State University)

11:30 - 11:45

A New Radiometric Method for Detecting the Circularly Polarized Gravitational Wave Background slides 

 Izumi Kaku (Osaka Metropolitan University)

11:45 - 12:00

A sudden dramatic change and recovery of magneto-environment of a repeating fast radio burs

 Ye Li (Purple Mountain Observatory)

12:00 - 12:30

Panel

Leo Tsukada, Michael Coughlin, Reed Essick

Lunch (on your own) 

12:30 - 2:15

Transients

Convener: Jose Carpio

2:15 - 2:45

Zwicky Transient Facility: A Discovery Engine slides 

Shrinivas Kulkarni (Caltech)

2:45 - 3:15

Special kilonovae

  Andrew Levan (Radboud University)

3:15 - 3:45

Mapping Baryons in the CGM/IGM with FRBs and CROCODILE simulation

Kentaro Nagamine (The University of Osaka)

Break 3:45 - 4:00

4:00 - 4:30

VegasAfterglow: An Advanced Toolkit for GRB Afterglow Modeling slides 

 Yihan Wang (UNLV)

4:30 - 4:45

X-ray Signatures of Compact-Object Binary Mergers

 Connery Chen (UNLV) 

4:45 - 5:00

Magnetar crust quake-induced inverse Compton scattering in FRBs

Yuanhong Qu (UNLV) 

5:00 - 5:30

Panel

Shrinivas Kulkarni, Andrew Levan, Kentaro Nagamine, Yihan Wang

 

7:30 - 8:30

R. Frank and D. Schuman Astronomy Public Lecture 

Bigelow Physics Buidling, BPB 102

Shrinivas Kulkarni (Caltech)

 

Day 3

Friday 2/28/2025

Physical Processes

Convener: Yihan Wang

9:00 - 9:30

Particle acceleration in turbulent systems

 Alex Lazarian (University of Wisconsin)

9:30 - 10:00

r-processes

 Yong-Zhong Qian (University of Minnesota)

10:00 - 10:30

Life and death of massive stars: Mapping the uncertain formation of massive black holes slides 

Amedeo Romagnolo (UC San Diego)

Break 10:30 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:15

Mirror Acceleration in Relativistic Plasma Turbulence: Insights from Kinetic Simulations

 Saikat Das (University of Florida)

11:15 - 11:30

Identifying the Source of Ultraviolet Emission Powering He II Lines in Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxies

 Ivan Altunin (University of Nevada, Reno)

11:30 - 11:45

Studying cosmology and cosmic baryons using FRBs slides 

 Jiaming Zhuge (UNLV)

11:45 - 12:00

Exploring Magnetar Formation Channels Using Population Synthesis 

 Ruichong Hu (UNLV)

12:00 - 12:30

Panel

Alex Lazarian, Yong-Zhong Qian, Amedeo Romagnolo

Lunch (on your own)

Lunch 12:30 - 2:30

Future Experiments

Convener: Leo Tsukada

2:30 - 3:00

LISA slides 

Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

3:00 - 3:30

TaU AlR-SHOWER MOUNTAIN-BASED OBSERVATORY (TAMBO) slides 

 Will Thompson (Harvard University)

3:30 - 3:45

Gravitational waveform accuracy requirements for current and future ground-based detectors slides 

 Rachel Langgin (UNLV)

Break 3:45 - 4:00

4:00 - 4:30


Panel on Future Experiments

Neil Cornish, Will Thompson 

 

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