Organizing Committee
- Douglas Arnold
University of Minnesota - Scott Field
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Gaurav Khanna
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Deirdre Shoemaker
University of Texas at Austin - Saul Teukolsky
Cornell University - Niels Warburton
University College Dublin - Barry Wardell
University College Dublin
Abstract
This kick-off workshop will seek to provide an overview of both the state-of-the-art and open challenges drawing from multiple themes (theory, analysis of the equations, computation, and data analysis) within the broad context of Einstein’s general relativity theory. We welcome participation from physics, mathematics, statistics, and astrophysics, and the speaking schedule will reflect this diversity of scientific disciplines.
The workshop will also feature a series of hands-on, computational tutorials in the afternoon. We plan to hold tutorials on (i) the SXS gravitational waveform catalog which contains important simulation outputs from the numerical relativity code SpEC, (ii) the Einstein Toolkit software platform for numerically solving the Einstein equation, the relativistic (magneto-)hydrodynamics equations, and other tools to support research in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, (iii) the Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit which can be used to model gravitational radiation from small mass-ratio binaries, ringdown of black holes, and other computational tools to assist with the study of gravity within the context of perturbation theory, and (iv) xAct, an efficient tensor computer algebra framework for Mathematica. Some tutorials may also integrate relevant data analysis tutorials for working with gravitational-wave datasets. Tutorial participants will be given both an overview of the key pieces of software as well as practical instructions on installing and running example cases.
Tutorial Materials
Tutorial: Using the waveform catalog
- Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes python package - Installation of the sxs software
- Code Repository - This repository collects a few notebooks illustrating how to use the `sxs` package
Tutorial: Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit
- BHPToolkit Slides.pdf
- Getting Started with BHPToolkit notebook
- Getting Started with BHPToolkit Solution notebook
- Complete Flux Calculation notebook
- Complete Flux Calculation Solution notebook
- Scattering and Absorbtion notebook
- Scattering and Absorbtion Solution notebook
Tutorial: xAct

Confirmed Speakers & Participants
Talks will be presented virtually or in-person as indicated in the schedule below.
- Speaker
- Poster Presenter
- Attendee
- Virtual Attendee
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Naresh Adhikari
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
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Sarp Akcay
University College Dublin
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Mehdi Ameri
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
-
Ellery Ames
Humboldt State University
-
Steve Anglin
Case Western Reserve University
-
Harbir Antil
George Mason University
-
Daniel Appelö
University of Colorado Boulder
-
Llibert Aresté Saló
Queen Mary University of London
-
Stefanos Aretakis
University of Toronto
-
Jeremias Arf
Technical University Kaiserslautern
-
Douglas Arnold
University of Minnesota
-
Julio Arrechea
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC)
-
Josu C. Aurrekoetxea
King's College London
-
Indrani Banerjee
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
-
Pratyusava Baral
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
-
Enrico Barausse
SISSA, Trieste, Italy
-
Soummyadip Basak
ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India
-
Zakaria Belkhadria
University of Tours
-
Emilio Bellini
University of Oxford
-
John Belz
University of Utah
-
Canisius Bernard
University of Saskatchewan
-
Sebastiano Bernuzzi
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena
-
Emanuele Berti
John Hopkins University
-
Khanak Bhargava
University of Massachusetts
-
Ashish Bhatt
IIT ISM Dhanbad
-
Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
-
Luca Boccioli
University of Notre Dame
-
Deepika Bollimpalli
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
-
Beatrice Bonga
Radboud University
-
Michael Boyle
Cornell University
-
Christopher Bresten
Ajou University
-
Bernd Brügmann
Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena
-
Alessandra Buonanno
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
-
Karen Camarda
Washburn University
-
Manuela Campanelli
Rochester Institute of Technology
-
Alejandro Cardenas Avendano
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Marc Casals
CBPF
-
Juliana Celestino
CBPF ( Brazilian Center of Physics researches)
-
Andrew Christlieb
Michigan State University
-
Katherine Clough
University of Oxford
-
Geoffrey Compère
Université Libre de Bruxelles
-
Sidafa Conde
Sandia National Laboratories
-
William Cook
University of Jena
-
Isabel Cordero-Carrion
University of Valencia
-
Maxence Corman
Perimeter Institute/Univeristy of Waterloo
-
Neil Cornish
Montana State University
-
Daniela Cors
Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena
-
Robert Coyne
University of Rhode Island
-
Károly Csukás
Wigner RCP
-
Stefan Czimek
University of Toronto
-
Ashkbiz Danehkar
University of Michigan
-
Boris Daszuta
Friedrich Schiller University
-
Eloy de Jong
King's College London
-
Shiladittya Debnath
West Bengal University of Technology.
-
Lindsay DeMarchi
Northwestern University
-
Nils Deppe
Cornell University
-
Radhika Deshmukh
Shri Shivaji college of arts commerce and science Akola
-
Mekhi Dhesi
University of Southampton
-
Peter Diener
Louisiana State University
-
Georgios Doulis
University of Jena
-
Rajesh Dubey
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, OVT. OF UAE AND LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY, INDIA
-
Francisco Duque
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
-
Leanne Durkan
University College Dublin
-
Maxim Dvoynishnikov
University of Vienna
-
Nelson Eiró
Queen Mary University of London
-
Kyrillos ElAbd
Cairo University
-
Matthew Elley
King's College London
-
Donald Estep
Simon Fraser University
-
Patrick Farrell
University of Oxford
-
Scott Field
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Pau Figueras
Queen Mary University of London
-
Robert Fisher
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Xisco Forteza
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
-
Tiago França
Queen Mary University Of London
-
daniele funaro
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
-
William Gabella
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
-
Bhooshan Gadre
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Potsdam-Golm
-
Jonathan Gair
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
-
Leda Gao
Wake Forest University
-
David Garfinkle
Oakland University
-
Ajeet Gary
New York University
-
Aayush Gautam
Tribhuvan University
-
Bo-Xuan Ge
King's College London
-
Richard George
University of Texas at Austin
-
Davide Gerosa
University of Birmingham
-
Ziad Ghauch
University of California Berkeley
-
Thanasis Giannakopoulos
Instituto Superior Técnico
-
Elena Giorgi
Princeton University
-
Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Srashti Goyal
International Center for Theoretical Sciences Bangalore
-
Samuel Gralla
University of Arizona
-
Chenxia Gu
QMUL
-
Bobby Gunara
Institut Teknologi Bandung
-
Carsten Gundlach
University of Southampton
-
Sajal Gupta
University of Colorado Boulder
-
Mario Gutierrez Abed
Rochester Institute of Technology
-
Tom Hagstrom
Southern Methodist University
-
Maria Hamilton
Marshall University, Huntington, WV
-
Carl-Johan Haster
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Ian Hawke
University of Southampton
-
Thomas Helfer
Johns Hopkins University
-
Anil Hirani
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Michael Holst
University of California, San Diego
-
Seth Hopper
Earlham College
-
Hamideh Hosseini
Miss
-
George Hrabovsky
Midwest Area Science and Technology (MAST)
-
Jun Hu
Beijing (Peking) University
-
Kaibo Hu
University of Minnesota
-
Daoji Huang
Cornell University
-
Juntao Huang
Michigan State Univerisity
-
Eliu Huerta
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-
Mayer Humi
WPI
-
Cécile Huneau
Centre De Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz
-
Bryen Irving
Stanford University
-
David Isaacson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
-
Tousif Islam
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Shashank Jaiswal
Purdue University
-
Cristian Joana
University of Louvain (UCLouvain - CURL)
-
Félix Julié
Johns Hopkins University
-
Jae-Hun Jung
POSTECH
-
Divya Jyoti
Central University of Punjab, Bathinda
-
Jay Kalinani
University of Padova
-
Ankur Kalita
Gauhati University, India
-
Chris Kavanagh
AEI Potsdam
-
Atul Kedia
University of Notre Dame
-
Brendan Keith
TU Munich
-
Connor Kenyon
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Joey Key
University of Washington, Bothell
-
Akshay Khadse
University of Mississippi
-
Hassan Khalvati
Sharif University of Technology
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Gaurav Khanna
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Lawrence Kidder
Cornell University
-
Kevin Kiely
University College Dublin
-
Maximilian Kölsch
FSU Jena
-
Vanitha Krishna
Presidency University
-
Lorenzo Küchler
ULB
-
Vikrant Kumar
IISER Kolkata
-
Anmol Kumar
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
-
Joel Kurzweil
University of Vienna
-
Pablo Laguna
University of Texas at Austion
-
Jacob Lange
Rochester Institute of Technology
-
Eduard Larranaga
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
-
Stephen Lau
University of New Mexico
-
Benjamin Leather
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
-
Jeonghun Lee
Baylor University
-
Philippe LeFloch
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions Université Pierre et Marie Curie
-
Luis Lehner
Perimeter Institute
-
Melvin Leok
University of California, San Diego
-
Xinyu Li
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics & Perimeter Institute
-
Xiang Li
Caltech
-
Jichun Li
University of Nevada Las Vegas
-
Hao Li
Purdue University
-
Dongjun Li
California Institute of Technology
-
Martin Licht
University of California, San Diego
-
Steven Liebling
Long Island University
-
Hao Liu
Brown University
-
Lionel London
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
-
Oliver Long
University of Southampton
-
Philip Lynch
University College Dublin
-
Zhenwei Lyu
University of Guelph
-
Sizheng Ma
Caltech
-
Ludovico Machet
KU Leuven - ULB
-
Elisa Maggio
Sapienza University of Rome
-
Caroline Mallary
UMass Dartmouth
-
Charalampos Markakis
Queen Mary University of London & University of Cambridge
-
Michael Maroun
NA
-
José Martín-García
Wolfram
-
Josh Mathews
University College Dublin
-
Sudhi Mathur
California Institute of Technology
-
James Mertens
Washington University, St. Louis
-
Luis Micchi
Universidade Federal do ABC
-
Zachary Miksis
University of Notre Dame
-
Bivudutta Mishra
BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
-
Keefe Mitman
California Institute of Technology
-
Jordan Moxon
California Institute of Technology
-
Soham Mukherjee
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics/University of Waterloo
-
Zachary Nasipak
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
-
Rajesh Nayak
IISER Kolkata
-
Vsevolod Nedora
Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut
-
Lan Nguyen
University of Notre Dame
-
Krishna Nunna
Bits-Pilani Hyderabad Campus
-
Michael O'Boyle
University of Illinois
-
Richard O'Shaughnessy
Rochester Institute of Technology
-
Maria Okounkova
Flatiron Institute
-
Roberto Oliveri
Czech Academy of Sciences
-
Néstor Ortiz
Institute for Nuclear Science, National Autonomous University of Mexico
-
Adrian Ottewill
University College Dublin
-
Ali Övgün
Eastern Mediterranean University
-
Surendra Padamata
Pennsylvania State university
-
Sohyun Park
CERN
-
Pardeep Pathania
University of Massachusetts
-
Joaquín Pelle
National University of Córdoba
-
Harald Pfeiffer
Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam, Germany
-
Adam Pound
University of Southampton
-
Partha Pradhan
HIRALAL MAZUMDAR MEMORIAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
-
Geraint Pratten
University of Birmingham
-
Richard Price
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Akshay Priyadarshi
NISER, Bhubaneswar
-
Sai-Mang Pun
Texas A&M University
-
Tong Qin
University of Michigan
-
david quispe
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
-
David Quispe Aruquipa
CBPF (Brazilian Center for Research in Physics)
-
Istvan Racz
Wigner RCP
-
Manvendra Rajvanshi
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
-
Ronald Remmerswaal
University of Groningen
-
Mauricio Richartz
Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
-
Katie Rink
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Justin Ripley
Cambridge University
-
Alberto Roper Pol
Astroparticule et Cosmologie Institute
-
Soumendra Roy
Presidency University
-
Marcelo Rubio
National University of Cordoba
-
Enrique Ruiz Mancilla
Universidad de Colima
-
Jennifer Ryan
Colorado School of Mines
-
Pradyumn Sahoo
Birla Institute of Technology & Science-Pilani
-
Rabia Saleem
COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD, LAHORE CAMPUS
-
Bassel Saleh
University of Texas at Austin
-
Zeyd Sam
University of Southampton
-
Samuel Santos
Universitat de València
-
Chandra Shekhar Saraf
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
-
Rafia Sarwar
Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad (Pakistan)
-
Pranav Satheesh
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
-
Mark Scheel
California Institute of Technology
-
Erik Schnetter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Yoshinta Setyawati
AEI Hannover
-
Feroz Shaik
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
-
Mohammad Shaikh
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
-
Swarnim Shashank
IUCAA
-
Deirdre Shoemaker
University of Texas at Austin
-
Chi-Wang Shu
Brown University
-
Estuti Shukla
IISER Kolkata
-
Nils Siemonsen
Perimeter Institute
-
Douglas Singleton
California State University, Fresno
-
Viktor Skoupý
Charles University
-
Rory James Smith
Monash University
-
Jared Speck
Vanderbilt University
-
Nicholas Speeney
Johns Hopkins University
-
Andrew Spiers
University of Southampton
-
Leo Stein
University of Mississippi
-
Nikolaos Stergioulas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
-
Vladimir Strokov
Johns Hopkins University
-
Andrew Sullivan
Princeton University
-
Hari Sundar
University of Utah
-
Ankan Sur
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
-
Saul Teukolsky
Cornell University
-
Chi Tian
Washington University in St.Louis
-
Snehal Tibrewal
None
-
Praveer Tiwari
Washington State University
-
Konrad Topolski
University of Warsaw
-
Arthur Touati
Ecole Polytechnique
-
Gantumur Tsogtgerel
McGill University
-
Sahil Ugale
Mithibai College of Arts, Chauhan Institute of Science & Amruthben Jivanlal College of Commerce and Economics
-
Samuel Upton
University of Southampton
-
Caterina Vâlcu
Ecole polytechnique
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Maarten van de Meent
Albert Einstein Institute
-
Alex Vano-Vinuales
CENTRA, IST, University of Lisbon
-
Manas Vishal
IISER Kolkata
-
Axel Voigt
Institute of Scientific Computing - Technische Universitat Dresden
-
Mittu Walia
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
-
He Wang
Institute of Theoretical Physics (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
-
Niels Warburton
University College Dublin
-
Barry Wardell
University College Dublin
-
Benjamin Wiggins
University of Vermont
-
Vojtech Witzany
University College Dublin
-
Kaze Wong
Johns Hopkins University
-
Thomas Wurm
University of Vienna
-
Xiaoyi Xie
University of Southampton
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H.C. Yee
NASA Ames Research Center
-
Hwei-Jang Yo
National Cheng-Kung University
-
Dongbing Zha
Donghua University
-
Shangyou Zhang
University of Delaware
-
Miguel Zilhao
Instituto Superior Tecnico
-
Aaron Zimmerman
The University of Texas at Austin
-
Maria Zioga
University of Tuebingen