Organizing Committee
Abstract

The aim of this reunion meeting is to bring together the participants from the Fall 2020 program “advances in computational relativity” to work in a focused way towards solving the most pressing mathematical modeling and numerical simulation issues facing the gravitational wave community, and cultivating new subfields within mathematics that focus on important, pressing issues related to gravitational waves as well as providing mathematicians with new questions and problems to explore.

The areas of focus will be: (i) mathematical and computational approaches for solving the source-free Einstein field equations (a nonlinear, coupled, hyperbolic-elliptic PDE system) including fundamental aspects of general relativity or alternative theories of gravity, (ii) mathematical and computational approaches for the Einstein field equations with matter and magnetic fields, as well as the multi-scale, multi-physics modeling challenges for such problems, and (iii) methods for the detection, classification, and Bayesian inference of relativistic objects and gravitational-wave datasets, especially by considering under-explored techniques such as machine learning or uncertainty quantification.

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Confirmed Speakers & Participants

Talks will be presented virtually or in-person as indicated in the schedule below.

  • Speaker
  • Poster Presenter
  • Attendee
  • Virtual Attendee
  • Ritesh Bachhar
    University of Rhode Island
  • Kevin Cunningham
    University College Dublin
  • Jaryd Domine
    Southern Methodist University
  • Lisa Drummond
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Scott Field
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Bhooshan Gadre
    Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Tom Hagstrom
    Southern Methodist University
  • Carl-Johan Haster
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Anna Heffernan
    University of the Balearic Islands
  • Juntao Huang
    Michigan State University
  • Tousif Islam
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Chris Kavanagh
    University College Dublin
  • Gaurav Khanna
    University of Rhode Island
  • Prayush Kumar
    International Centre for Theoretical Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • Steven Liebling
    Long Island University
  • Josh Mathews
    University College Dublin
  • Zachary Nasipak
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Adrian Ottewill
    University College Dublin
  • Michael Puerrer
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Feroz Shaik
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Viktor Skoupý
    Charles University
  • Rory James Smith
    Monash University
  • Lorenzo Speri
    Max Planck Institute
  • Leo Stein
    University of Mississippi
  • Vijay Varma
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Manas Vishal
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Nils Vu
    Albert-Einstein-Institute Potsdam, Germany
  • Niels Warburton
    University College Dublin
  • Barry Wardell
    University College Dublin
  • Helvi Witek
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Workshop Schedule

Monday, July 25, 2022
  • 8:50 - 9:00 am EDT
    Welcome
    Welcome - 11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Session Chair
    • Brendan Hassett, ICERM/Brown University
  • 9:00 - 10:00 am EDT
    Meet and Greet Program overview
    Program Overview - 11th Floor Lecture Hall
    • Scott Field, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
  • 5:00 - 6:30 pm EDT
    Reception
    Reception - 11th Floor Collaborative Space
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
  • 12:25 - 12:30 pm EDT
    Group Photo
    Group Photo (Immediately After Talk) - 11th Floor Lecture Hall
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
Thursday, July 28, 2022
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
Friday, July 29, 2022
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
  • 3:30 - 4:30 pm EDT
    Lightning Talks
    11th Floor Lecture Hall
Monday, August 1, 2022
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
Thursday, August 4, 2022
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space
Friday, August 5, 2022
  • 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
    Lunch/Free Time
  • 3:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
    Coffee Break
    11th Floor Collaborative Space

All event times are listed in ICERM local time in Providence, RI (Eastern Daylight Time / UTC-4).

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