Organizing Committee
Abstract

This workshop will focus on theoretical and computational approaches to solving the vacuum Einstein field equations (the master equation of general relativity: a nonlinear, coupled, hyperbolic-elliptic PDE system) without matter field sources. A particular important special case is the simulation of two merging black holes, which will be emphasized throughout the workshop. Gravitational wave solutions will be another important aspect of this workshop, and special attention will be given to modeling techniques for the computation of these waves. The topics covered in this workshop will be relevant to both LIGO and LISA scientific efforts.

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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
  • Naresh Adhikari
    University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • Aman Agarwal
    University of Guelph and Perimeter Institute
  • Mr Ahmed
    Quaid-I-Azam univesrity Islamabad Pakistan
  • Sarp Akcay
    University College Dublin
  • Khaznah Al khaldi
    Ju ail university college
  • Sahar Amir
    NEOM
  • Xinliang An
    National University of Singapore
  • Steve Anglin
    Case Western Reserve University
  • Harbir Antil
    George Mason University
  • Stefanos Aretakis
    University of Toronto
  • Douglas Arnold
    University of Minnesota
  • Simran Arora
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
  • Florian Atteneder
    Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena
  • Dinshaw Balsara
    Notre Dame
  • Indrani Banerjee
    Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
  • Leor Barack
    University of Southampton
  • 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
  • Bilel Ben Salem
    University of Bielefeld
  • Marina Berbel
    Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
  • Khanak Bhargava
    University of Massachusetts
  • Maitraya Bhattacharyya
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
  • Marian Bocea
    National Science Foundation
  • Aniruddha Bora
    Louisiana Tech University
  • Christopher Bresten
    Ajou University
  • Luisa Buchman
    University of Washington Bothell
  • Alessandra Buonanno
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Piyabut Burikham
    Chulalongkorn University
  • Manuela Campanelli
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Marc Casals
    CBPF
  • Juliana Celestino
    CBPF ( Brazilian Center of Physics researches)
  • Indranil Chakraborty
    IIT Kharagpur
  • Chao Chen
    University of Texas at Austin
  • Yingda Cheng
    Michigan State University
  • Andrew Christlieb
    Michigan State University
  • Geoffrey Compère
    Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Isabel Cordero-Carrion
    University of Valencia
  • Maxence Corman
    Perimeter Institute/Univeristy of Waterloo
  • Daniela Cors
    Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena
  • Robert Coyne
    University of Rhode Island
  • Károly Csukás
    Wigner RCP
  • Stefan Czimek
    University of Toronto
  • Mihalis Dafermos
    Princeton University
  • Ashkbiz Danehkar
    University of Michigan
  • Shyam Das
    P D WOMEN'S COLLEGE
  • Boris Daszuta
    Friedrich Schiller University
  • Georg Dautcourt
    MPI Gravitatonal Physics
  • Shiladittya Debnath
    West Bengal University of Technology.
  • Lindsay DeMarchi
    Northwestern University
  • Radhika Deshmukh
    Shri Shivaji college of arts commerce and science Akola
  • Mekhi Dhesi
    University of Southampton
  • Sonal Dhingra
    University of Delhi
  • Alexandru Dima
    SISSA
  • Mariano Dominguez
    Cordoba Astronomical Observatory
  • Matthew Duez
    Washington State University
  • Francisco Duque
    Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Amel Durakovic
    CEICO, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Leanne Durkan
    University College Dublin
  • Kenneth Duru
    Australian National University
  • Christopher Duston
    Merrimack College
  • Poulami Dutta Roy
    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
  • William East
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Nelson Eiró
    Queen Mary University of London
  • Kyrillos ElAbd
    Cairo University
  • Matthew Elley
    King's College London
  • Donald Estep
    Simon Fraser University
  • Zachariah Etienne
    West Virginia University
  • Adeyemi Fagbade
    University of Wyoming
  • Muhammad Farooq
    University of Central Punjab, Pakistan.
  • Weerahannadige Milinda Fernando
    University of Utah
  • Giuseppe Ficarra
    King's College London
  • Scott Field
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Pau Figueras
    Queen Mary University of London
  • Robert Fisher
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Tiago França
    Queen Mary University Of London
  • Jonathan Gair
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Dejan Gajic
    University of Cambridge
  • Radouane Gannouji
    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
  • Ajeet Gary
    New York University
  • Aayush Gautam
    Tribhuvan University
  • Shalabh Gautam
    Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)
  • Bo-Xuan Ge
    King's College London
  • Richard George
    University of Texas at Austin
  • Thanasis Giannakopoulos
    Instituto Superior Técnico
  • Sergio Gimeno-Soler
    University of Valencia
  • Elena Giorgi
    Princeton University
  • Lidia Gomes Da Silva
    Queen Mary University of London
  • Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Srashti Goyal
    International Center for Theoretical Sciences Bangalore
  • Zachary J Grant
    Oak Ridge National Lab
  • Stephen Green
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Leslie Greengard
    New York University
  • Chenxia Gu
    QMUL
  • Leonardo Gualtieri
    University of Rome La Sapienza
  • 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
  • Rhameez Herbst
    University of Johannesburg
  • Jan Hesthaven
    Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  • Anil Hirani
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Michael Holst
    University of California, San Diego
  • Seth Hopper
    Earlham College
  • Hamideh Hosseini
    Miss
  • Kaibo Hu
    University of Minnesota
  • Juntao Huang
    Michigan State Univerisity
  • Eliu Huerta
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Cécile Huneau
    Centre De Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz
  • Ibrar Hussain
    Department of Humanities & Sciences, School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad
  • Bryen Irving
    Stanford University
  • David Isaacson
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Tousif Islam
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Alexey Izmailov
    Brown University
  • Rukmini Jagirdar
    Osmania University, Hyderabad
  • Shashank Jaiswal
    Purdue University
  • Cristian Joana
    University of Louvain (UCLouvain - CURL)
  • Caleb Ju
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jae-Hun Jung
    POSTECH
  • Divya Jyoti
    Central University of Punjab, Bathinda
  • Semih Kacmaz
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jay Kalinani
    University of Padova
  • Roit Kataria
    Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad
  • Christoph Kehle
    ETH Zurich
  • Brendan Keith
    TU Munich
  • James Kennington
    The Pennsylvania State University
  • Connor Kenyon
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Akshay Khadse
    University of Mississippi
  • Hassan Khalvati
    Sharif University of Technology
  • Gaurav Khanna
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Lawrence Kidder
    Cornell University
  • Robert Korsan
    retired
  • Peter Kotiuga
    Boston University
  • Kirill Krasnov
    University of Nottingham
  • Vanitha Krishna
    Presidency University
  • Shailesh Kumar
    INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ALLAHABAD
  • Vikrant Kumar
    IISER Kolkata
  • Anmol Kumar
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
  • Rajesh Kumar
    DDU Gorakhpur university
  • Joel Kurzweil
    University of Vienna
  • Jacob Lange
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Eduard Larranaga
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Stephen Lau
    University of New Mexico
  • M Laxman
    INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
  • Alexandre Le Tiec
    Observatoire de Paris
  • Benjamin Leather
    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
  • Jeonghun Lee
    Baylor University
  • Philippe LeFloch
    Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions Université Pierre et Marie Curie
  • Melvin Leok
    University of California, San Diego
  • martin lesourd
    Black Hole Initiative Harvard University
  • Dongjun Li
    California Institute of Technology
  • Hao Li
    Purdue University
  • Jichun Li
    University of Nevada Las Vegas
  • Buyang Li
    Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Martin Licht
    University of California, San Diego
  • Steven Liebling
    Long Island University
  • Hao Liu
    Brown University
  • Sijing Liu
    University of Connecticut
  • Yuan Liu
    Wichita State University
  • Chao Liu
    Huazhong University of Science & Technology
  • Ronaldo Lobato
    Texas A&M University-Commerce
  • Lionel London
    MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
  • Oliver Long
    University of Southampton
  • Jonathan Luk
    Stanford University
  • Philip Lynch
    University College Dublin
  • Zhenwei Lyu
    University of Guelph
  • Siyuan Ma
    Sorbonne University
  • Sizheng Ma
    Caltech
  • Marco Maceda
    Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
  • Elisa Maggio
    Sapienza University of Rome
  • Maciej Maliborski
    University of Vienna
  • Caroline Mallary
    UMass Dartmouth
  • Diya Mallik
    St.Xavier's College, Mumbai
  • Charalampos Markakis
    Queen Mary University of London & University of Cambridge
  • Michael Maroun
    NA
  • Antonio Marquina
    University of Valencia
  • Josh Mathews
    University College Dublin
  • Sudhi Mathur
    California Institute of Technology
  • Areeba Merriam
    Quaid-I-Azam University
  • Luis Micchi
    Universidade Federal do ABC
  • Jonah Miller
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Georgios Moschidis
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Soham Mukherjee
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics/University of Waterloo
  • Syed Umair Naqvi
    Jagiellonian Universtiy
  • Zachary Nasipak
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Rajesh Nayak
    IISER Kolkata
  • Elham Nazari
    Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
  • Lan Nguyen
    University of Notre Dame
  • Ingo Nitschke
    Technische Universität Dresden
  • Adi Nusser
    technion
  • 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
  • Annamalai P S
    CUSAT, Kochi
  • Surendra Padamata
    Pennsylvania State university
  • Jeahyun Park
    University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Federico Pasqualotto
    UC Berkeley
  • Benoit Pausader
    Brown University
  • Joaquín Pelle
    National University of Córdoba
  • Ilya Peshkov
    University of Trento
  • Adam Peterson
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Harald Pfeiffer
    Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam, Germany
  • Supakchai Ponglertsakul
    Chulalongkorn University
  • Adam Pound
    University of Southampton
  • Partha Pradhan
    HIRALAL MAZUMDAR MEMORIAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
  • Richard Price
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Akshay Priyadarshi
    NISER, Bhubaneswar
  • Zhijun (George) Qiao
    University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • Istvan Racz
    Wigner RCP
  • Manvendra Rajvanshi
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
  • Antoni Ramos Buades
    AEI Potsdam
  • Mauricio Richartz
    Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
  • Katie Rink
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Igor Rodnianski
    Princeton University
  • Yolbeiker Rodríguez
    Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María
  • Alberto Roper Pol
    Astroparticule et Cosmologie Institute
  • Soumendra Roy
    Presidency University
  • Tamal Roy Chowdhury
    Indian Institute of Technology
  • Marcelo Rubio
    National University of Cordoba
  • Enrique Ruiz Mancilla
    Universidad de Colima
  • Hannes Rüter
    Albert Einstein Institute Potsdam
  • Noussaiba Saadoudi
    UMBB & USTHB
  • Pradyumn Sahoo
    Birla Institute of Technology & Science-Pilani
  • Khalid Saifullah
    Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
  • kiana Salehi
    Sharif University of Technology
  • Zeyd Sam
    University of Southampton
  • Samuel Santos
    Universitat de València
  • Subhodeep Sarkar
    Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
  • Rafia Sarwar
    Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad (Pakistan)
  • Pranav Satheesh
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Frank Schindler
    University of Vienna
  • Patricia Schmidt
    University of Birmingham
  • Erik Schnetter
    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Karima Shahzad
    Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad,Pakistan (QAU)
  • Feroz Shaik
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Mohammad Shaikh
    International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
  • Swarnim Shashank
    Fudan University
  • Qin Sheng
    Baylor University
  • Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman
    Princeton University
  • Deirdre Shoemaker
    University of Texas at Austin
  • Chi-Wang Shu
    Brown University
  • Estuti Shukla Shukla
    IISER Kolkata
  • Ayesha Siddiqa
    Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Mukesh Singh
    INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES, TATA INSTITUTE FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, BENGALURU, INDIA
  • Douglas Singleton
    California State University, Fresno
  • Rory James Smith
    Monash University
  • Jared Speck
    Vanderbilt University
  • Andrew Spiers
    University of Southampton
  • Brent Sprangers
    KULeuven
  • Jeffrey Stein
    Prime Factor Group, Inc.
  • Nikolaos Stergioulas
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Isabel Suárez Fernández
    Instituto Superior Técnico / CENTRA
  • Ankan Sur
    Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
  • Rita Teixeira da Costa
    University of Cambridge
  • Snehal Tibrewal
    None
  • Praveer Tiwari
    Washington State University
  • Konrad Topolski
    University of Warsaw
  • Arthur Touati
    Ecole Polytechnique
  • Madhusmita Tripathy
    Andhra University
  • Gantumur Tsogtgerel
    McGill University
  • Eli Turkel
    Tel Aviv University
  • Sahil Ugale
    Mithibai College of Arts, Chauhan Institute of Science & Amruthben Jivanlal College of Commerce and Economics
  • Alex Vano-Vinuales
    CENTRA, IST, University of Lisbon
  • Tittu Varghese Mathew
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • T.S.Sachin Venkatesh
    Delhi Technological University
  • Aditya Vijaykumar
    International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR), Bengaluru
  • Manas Vishal
    IISER Kolkata
  • Axel Voigt
    Institute of Scientific Computing - Technische Universitat Dresden
  • Sebastian von Hausegger
    University of Oxford
  • Nils Vu
    Albert-Einstein-Institute Potsdam, Germany
  • Mittu Walia
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  • He Wang
    Institute of Theoretical Physics (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  • Siyang Wang
    Malardalen University
  • Niels Warburton
    University College Dublin
  • Barry Wardell
    University College Dublin
  • Benjamin Wiggins
    University of Vermont
  • Jeffrey Winicour
    University of Pittsburgh
  • Helvi Witek
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Nikolas Wittek
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Vojtech Witzany
    University College Dublin
  • Willie Wong
    Michigan State University
  • Bob Wu
    Zhejiang University of Technology
  • Zoe Wyatt
    University of Cambridge
  • Yulong Xing
    The Ohio State University
  • Yang Yang
    Michigan Technological University
  • H.C. Yee
    NASA Ames Research Center
  • Hwei-Jang Yo
    National Cheng-Kung University
  • Yunlong Zang
    Yangzhou University
  • Dongbing Zha
    Donghua University
  • Yanyan Zheng
    Missouri University of Science & Technology
  • Maria Zioga
    University of Tuebingen

Workshop Schedule

Monday, October 5, 2020
TimeEventLocationMaterials
10:00 - 10:15am EDTWelcome - ICERM Director  
10:15 - 11:00am EDTFuture Prospects for NR in Gravitational Wave Astronomy - Deirdre Shoemaker, University of Texas at Austin 
11:00 - 11:45am EDTElectromagnetic-gravitational perturbations of Kerr-Newman black hole - Elena Giorgi, Princeton University 
11:45 - 12:30pm EDTStrong Cosmic Censorship versus Λ - Mihalis Dafermos, Princeton University  
12:30 - 2:00pm EDTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
2:00 - 2:45pm EDTNonlinear interaction of multiple impulsive gravitational waves - Jonathan Luk, Stanford University 
2:45 - 3:30pm EDTAdaptive Sparse Grid Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for a Class of Nonlinear PDEs - Yingda Cheng, Michigan State University 
3:30 - 4:15pm EDTTowards energy-stable and conservative discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods for Einstein's equations of general relativity in second order form - Kenneth Duru, Australian National University 
4:15 - 5:00pm EDTMake your own Coffee Break  
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
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10:00 - 10:45am EDTBlackHoles at Home- Binary Black Hole Calculations on Consumer-Grade CPUs - Zachariah Etienne, West Virginia University 
10:45 - 11:30am EDTSingularity Formation in General Relativity - Jared Speck, Vanderbilt University 
11:30 - 12:15pm EDTTidal Love numbers of Kerr black holes - Alexandre Le Tiec, Observatoire de Paris 
12:15 - 1:30pm EDTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
1:30 - 2:15pm EDTLightning Talks (Round 1)  
2:15 - 3:00pm EDTLightning Talks (Round 2)  
3:00 - 4:00pm EDTMake your own Coffee Break  
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
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10:00 - 10:45am EDTModelling Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Holes- Overview & Challenges - Patricia Schmidt, University of Birmingham 
10:45 - 11:30am EDTNumerical relativity simulations for gravitational wave astrophysics - Harald Pfeiffer, Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam, Germany 
11:30 - 12:15pm EDTRadiation boundary conditions for waves- the solved, the unsolved, and potential applications to numerical relativity - Tom Hagstrom, Southern Methodist University 
12:15 - 1:30pm EDTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
1:30 - 2:15pm EDTThe Teukolsky equation on Kerr black hole spacetimes: a frequency space approach - Rita Teixeira da Costa, University of Cambridge  
2:15 - 3:00pm EDTBinary Black Hole Simulations Beyond General Relativity - Maria Okounkova, Flatiron Institute  
3:00 - 4:00pm EDTMake your own Coffee Break  
Thursday, October 8, 2020
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10:00 - 10:45am EDTNaked Singularities for the Einstein Vacuum Equations- The Exterior Solution - Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman, Princeton University 
10:45 - 11:30am EDTNumerical Relativity beyond General Relativity - Helvi Witek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
11:30 - 12:15pm EDTLightning Talks (Round 3)  
12:15 - 1:30pm EDTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
1:30 - 2:15pm EDTAsymptotics for the wave equation on black hole spacetimes - Stefanos Aretakis, University of Toronto 
2:15 - 3:00pm EDTDoing the unexpected with binary black holes - Steven Liebling, Long Island University 
3:00 - 4:00pm EDTMake your own Coffee Break  
Friday, October 9, 2020
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10:30 - 11:00am EDTMake your own Coffee Break  
11:00 - 1:00pm EDTPanel Discussion with moderator Helvi Witek - Panelists- Leor Barack Alessandra Buonanno Mihalis Dafermos Michael Holst and Harald Pfeiffer 

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