Organizing Committee
Abstract

This workshop will focus on data analysis strategies for comparing model predictions to data. Special attention will be placed on comparing solutions to the Einstein field equations (as in workshops 2 and 3) with data collected from gravitational-wave or telescopes. The workshop will include (but will not be limited to) coverage of topics involving reduced-order models, surrogate models, machine learning, UQ, and Bayesian techniques.

Tutorial Materials:

Tutorial: Learn basics of gravitational-wave data analysis with the community-developed PyCBC toolkit

Tutorial: Gravitational-wave data analysis, parameter estimation, and tests of GR with the community-developed PyCBC toolkit

Tutorial: EMRI waveform acceleration with machine learning and GPUs (Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit)

Jupyter notebook TBA

Tutorial: Numerical relativity surrogate models using gwsurrogte, surfinBH, binaryBHexp

Tutorial: Parameter estimation with Bilby

Tutorial: Multi-node parameter estimation with parallel Bilby:

https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/parallel_bilby/-/tree/master/examples/GW150914_IMRPhenomPv2/tutorial.ipynb https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/parallel_bilby/-/blob/master/examples/GW170817_IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal/tutorial.ipynb

Gravitational-wave data frames for the GW170817 observation:

Tutorial: Parameter estimation with GPU-accelerated code ILE/RIFT

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Image Credit: N. Cornish, MSU; J. Kanner, CIT; T. Littenberg, UAH; M. Millhouse, MSU; LIGO Virgo Collaboration

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
  • Chaitanya Afle
    Syracuse University
  • Derek Aguiar
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
  • Sarp Akcay
    University College Dublin
  • Sara Algeri
    University of Minnesota
  • Wathela Alhassan
    Copernicus Astronomical Center
  • Alireza Allahyari
    ipm
  • Sahar Amir
    NEOM
  • Steve Anglin
    Case Western Reserve University
  • Harbir Antil
    George Mason University
  • Andrea Antonelli
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam
  • Daniel Appelö
    University of Colorado Boulder
  • Stefanos Aretakis
    University of Toronto
  • Douglas Arnold
    University of Minnesota
  • Vishal Baibhav
    Johns Hopkins University
  • 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
  • Partha Basumallick
    Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
  • Zakaria Belkhadria
    University of Tours
  • Emilio Bellini
    University of Oxford
  • John Belz
    University of Utah
  • Khanak Bhargava
    University of Massachusetts
  • Maitraya Bhattacharyya
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
  • Ofek Birnholtz
    Bar-Ilan University
  • Sylvia Biscoveanu
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Marian Bocea
    National Science Foundation
  • Aniruddha Bora
    Louisiana Tech University
  • Bilel Bousselmi
    INSA Rennes
  • Christopher Bresten
    Ajou University
  • Floor Broekgaarden
    Harvard University
  • Manuela Campanelli
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Collin Capano
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
  • Alejandro Cardenas Avendano
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Marc Casals
    CBPF
  • Sarah Caudill
    Nikhef
  • Juliana Celestino
    CBPF ( Brazilian Center of Physics researches)
  • Katerina Chatziioannou
    Caltech
  • Chao Chen
    The University of Texas at Austin
  • Kenny Chowdhary
    Sandia National Laboratories
  • Andrew Christlieb
    Michigan State University
  • Alvin Chua
    CalTech
  • Sourabh Chutia
    Tezpur University
  • Katherine Clough
    University of Oxford
  • Sidafa Conde
    Sandia National Laboratories
  • Isabel Cordero-Carrion
    University of Valencia
  • Maxence Corman
    Perimeter Institute/Univeristy of Waterloo
  • Alessandra Corsi
    Texas Tech University
  • Robert Coyne
    University of Rhode Island
  • Stefan Czimek
    University of Toronto
  • Ashkbiz Danehkar
    University of Michigan
  • Boris Daszuta
    Friedrich Schiller University
  • Felipe de Freitas
    Aveiro University
  • Shiladittya Debnath
    West Bengal University of Technology.
  • Lindsay DeMarchi
    Northwestern University
  • Thomas Dent
    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  • Radhika Deshmukh
    Shri Shivaji college of arts commerce and science Akola
  • Chris Devitt
    University College Dublin
  • Ramit Dey
    IACS
  • Sonal Dhingra
    University of Delhi
  • Mariano Dominguez
    Cordoba Astronomical Observatory
  • Chandra Sekhar Dronavajjala
    University of Connecticut
  • Matthew Duez
    Washington State University
  • Leanne Durkan
    University College Dublin
  • Nelson Eiró
    Queen Mary University of London
  • Matthew Elley
    King's College London
  • Muhammad Farooq
    University of Central Punjab, Pakistan.
  • Will Farr
    Stony Brook University
  • Giuseppe Ficarra
    King's College London
  • Scott Field
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Maya Fishbach
    Northwestern University
  • Robert Fisher
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Stella Fragkouli
    ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI
  • William Gabella
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • Jonathan Gair
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Leda Gao
    Wake Forest University
  • Malay Garg
    Delhi technological university
  • Ajeet Gary
    New York University
  • Aayush Gautam
    Tribhuvan University
  • 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
  • Don Niko Godilano
    Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Lidia Gomes Da Silva
    Queen Mary University of London
  • Boris Goncharov
    Swinburne University of Technology
  • Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Constantine Goudas
    Long Island University
  • Srashti Goyal
    International Center for Theoretical Sciences Bangalore
  • Stephen Green
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Vesselin Gueorguiev
    Institute for Advanced Physical Studies
  • Sajal Gupta
    University of Colorado Boulder
  • Tom Hagstrom
    Southern Methodist University
  • Maria Hamilton
    Marshall University, Huntington, WV
  • Carl-Johan Haster
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ian Hawke
    University of Southampton
  • 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
  • Daoji Huang
    Cornell University
  • Eliu Huerta
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Cécile Huneau
    Centre De Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz
  • Panagiotis Iosif
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Bryen Irving
    Stanford University
  • David Isaacson
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Tousif Islam
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Rukmini Jagirdar
    Osmania University, Hyderabad
  • Shashank Jaiswal
    Purdue University
  • Alyssa Johnson
    Humboldt State University
  • David Jones
    Texas A&M University
  • Galin Jones
    University of Minnesota
  • William Jorge
    Technological University of Peru
  • Caleb Ju
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jae-Hun Jung
    POSTECH
  • Michael Katz
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Brendan Keith
    TU Munich
  • Connor Kenyon
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Akshay Khadse
    University of Mississippi
  • Hassan Khalvati
    Sharif University of Technology
  • Gaurav Khanna
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Sergey Klimenko
    University of Florida
  • Natalia Korsakova
    ARTEMIS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
  • Ioannis Koutalios
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Vanitha Krishna
    Presidency University
  • Rajesh Kumar
    DDU Gorakhpur university
  • Vikrant Kumar
    IISER Kolkata
  • Anmol Kumar
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
  • Jacob Lange
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Eduard Larranaga
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • Stephen Lau
    University of New Mexico
  • Claudia Lazzaro
    Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Benjamin Leather
    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
  • Luis Lehner
    Perimeter Institute
  • Erick Leon
    Syracuse University
  • Hao Li
    Purdue University
  • Dongjun Li
    California Institute of Technology
  • Jichun Li
    University of Nevada Las Vegas
  • Martin Licht
    University of California, San Diego
  • Steven Liebling
    Long Island University
  • Halston Lim
    MIT
  • Hao Liu
    Brown University
  • Lionel London
    MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
  • Philip Lynch
    University College Dublin
  • Zhenwei Lyu
    University of Guelph
  • QI MA
    North Carolina State University
  • Sizheng Ma
    Caltech
  • Elisa Maggio
    Sapienza University of Rome
  • Maciej Maliborski
    University of Vienna
  • Caroline Mallary
    UMass Dartmouth
  • Diya Mallik
    St.Xavier's College, Mumbai
  • Alberto Mangiagli
    University of Milan - Bicocca
  • 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
  • Katy McKeough
    Harvard University
  • Luis Micchi
    Universidade Federal do ABC
  • Matthew Mould
    University of Birmingham
  • Srijani Mukherjee
    University of Kalyani
  • Syed Umair Naqvi
    Jagiellonian Universtiy
  • Akil Narayan
    University of Utah
  • 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
  • Alexander Nitz
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics ...
  • Richard O'Shaughnessy
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Maria Okounkova
    Flatiron Institute
  • Temitope Oladimeji
    University of Pearson 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
  • Emmanuel de-Graft Johnson Owusu-Ansah
    Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • Surendra Padamata
    Pennsylvania State university
  • Souradeep Pal
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
  • M.Alessandra Papa
    Max Planck Inst. for Gravitational Physics and U. Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • Gopi Patel
    INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA
  • Benoit Pausader
    Brown University
  • Linyu Peng
    Keio University
  • Adam Pound
    University of Southampton
  • Partha Pradhan
    HIRALAL MAZUMDAR MEMORIAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
  • Richard Price
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Michael Puerrer
    Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Zhijun (George) Qiao
    University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • Manvendra Rajvanshi
    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
  • Shobhit Ranjan
    Delhi Technological University
  • 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
  • Jam Sadiq
    Sukkur IBA university, Sukkur, Sindh, Pakistan, 65200
  • Pradyumn Sahoo
    Birla Institute of Technology & Science-Pilani
  • Rabia Saleem
    COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD, LAHORE CAMPUS
  • Alberto Salvarese
    Università degli studi di Padova
  • 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)
  • Laura Sberna
    Perimeter Institute
  • Feroz Shaik
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • Mohammad Shaikh
    International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
  • Deirdre Shoemaker
    University of Texas at Austin
  • Chi-Wang Shu
    Brown University
  • Estuti Shukla Shukla
    IISER Kolkata
  • Mukesh Singh
    INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES, TATA INSTITUTE FOR FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH, BENGALURU, INDIA
  • Neha Singh
    Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw
  • Douglas Singleton
    California State University, Fresno
  • Rory James Smith
    Monash University
  • Jared Speck
    Vanderbilt University
  • Andrew Spiers
    University of Southampton
  • Leo Stein
    University of Mississippi
  • Nathan Steinle
    University of Texas at Dallas
  • Nikolaos Stergioulas
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Vladimir Strokov
    Johns Hopkins University
  • Ankan Sur
    Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
  • Stephen Taylor
    Vanderbilt University
  • Georgia Theodoropoulou
    National and Kapodistrian university of Athens
  • Snehal Tibrewal
    None
  • Manuel Tiglio
    Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
  • Praveer Tiwari
    Washington State University
  • Konrad Topolski
    University of Warsaw
  • Gantumur Tsogtgerel
    McGill University
  • Sahil Ugale
    Mithibai College of Arts, Chauhan Institute of Science & Amruthben Jivanlal College of Commerce and Economics
  • Michele Vallisneri
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Vijay Varma
    Cornell University
  • 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 Völkel
    SISSA and IFPU
  • Giorgos Vretinaris
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Mittu Walia
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  • Linwei Wang
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Zipeng Wang
    Zipeng Wang
  • 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
  • Jake Williams
    University College Dublin
  • Vojtech Witzany
    University College Dublin
  • Kaze Wong
    Johns Hopkins University
  • H.C. Yee
    NASA Ames Research Center
  • Hwei-Jang Yo
    National Cheng-Kung University
  • Jooheon Yoo
    Cornell University
  • Haiyan Yu
    Penn State University
  • Ondřej Zelenka
    Friedrich Schiller University in Jena
  • Dongbing Zha
    Donghua University
  • Xiaoning Zheng
    Jinan University

Workshop Schedule

Monday, November 16, 2020
TimeEventLocationMaterials
10:00 - 10:15am ESTWelcome - ICERM Director  
10:15 - 11:00am ESTAstrophysical Lessons from LIGO Virgo's Black Holes - Maya Fishbach, The University of Chicago 
11:00 - 11:45am ESTParameter inference for binary black holes using deep learning - Stephen Green, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics 
11:45 - 12:45pm ESTLecture- Introduction to GW from compact binary mergers- basic signal morphology and detection methods - Thomas Dent, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 
12:45 - 2:00pm ESTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
2:00 - 3:00pm ESTLecture- An introduction to the parameter estimation problem - Jonathan Gair, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics  
3:00 - 3:45pm ESTThe road (and roadblocks) to EMRI search and inference - Alvin Chua, CalTech 
3:45 - 4:30pm ESTThe Bayesian toolbox for inference in the observational era- parallel nested sampling and reduced order models - Rory Smith, Monash University 
4:30 - 5:00pm ESTMake your own Coffee/ Tea Break  
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
TimeEventLocationMaterials
10:00 - 10:45am ESTHandling model uncertainties via informative Goodness-of-Fit - Sara Algeri, University of Minnesota 
10:45 - 11:30am ESTQuantifying Observed Prior Impact - David Jones, Texas A&M University 
11:30 - 12:15pm ESTExtracting information from unmodeled or poorly modeled gravitational wave signals - Katerina Chatziioannou, CalTech 
12:15 - 1:30pm ESTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
1:30 - 2:30pm ESTTutorial- Learn basics of gravitational-wave data analysis with the community-developed PyCBC toolkit - Alex Nitz, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics 
2:30 - 3:30pm ESTTutorial: How to estimate parameters and test GR with PyCBC - Collin Capano, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)  
3:30 - 4:00pm ESTMake your own Coffee/ Tea Break  
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
TimeEventLocationMaterials
10:00 - 10:45am ESTIncorporating waveform uncertainty into modeling and inference of gravitational waves - Michael Pürrer, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics 
10:45 - 11:30am ESTGW transient un-modeled searches and characterization of the waveform signal using cWB algorithm - Claudia Lazzaro, Université degli Studi di Padova 
11:30 - 12:15pm ESTInference and probabilistic modelling with machine learning for LISA data analysis - Natalia Korsakova, ARTEMIS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur 
12:15 - 1:30pm ESTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
1:30 - 2:30pm ESTEMRI Waveform acceleration with machine learning and GPUs (Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit) - Michael Katz, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics  
2:30 - 3:30pm ESTTutorial- Learning high-fidelity gravitational-wave models from numerical relativity data - Scott Field, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 
3:30 - 4:30pm ESTTutorial: Numerical relativity models with gwsurrogate, SurfinBH, and binaryBHexp - Vijay Varma, Cornell University  
4:30 - 5:00pm ESTMake your own Coffee/ Tea Break  
Thursday, November 19, 2020
TimeEventLocationMaterials
10:00 - 10:45am ESTAn application of topological data analysis to gravitational wave detection problem - Jae-Hun Jung, POSTECH 
10:45 - 11:30am ESTSpatio-temporal Inference Strategies In The Quest For Gravitational-wave Detection With Pulsar Timing Arrays - Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University 
11:30 - 12:15pm ESTGravitational wave bursts- Detection with minimal assumptions - Sergey Klimenko, University of Florida 
12:15 - 1:30pm ESTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
1:30 - 3:00pm ESTTutorial- Parameter estimation with Bilby and Parallel Bilby - Sylvia Biscoveanu, Carl Haster, & Rory Smith 
3:00 - 4:30pm ESTTutorial: Parameter estimation with ILE/RIFT - Richard O'Shaughnessy & Jacob Lange  
4:30 - 5:00pm ESTMake your own Coffee/ Tea Break  
Friday, November 20, 2020
TimeEventLocationMaterials
10:00 - 10:45am ESTIterative adaptive learning for parameter and population inference - Richard O'Shaughnessy, Rochester Institute of Technology 
10:45 - 11:30am ESTStatistical methods for the detection of weak continuous signals - M. Alessandra Papa, Max Planck Inst. for Gravitational Physics and U. Wisconsin Milwaukee 
11:30 - 12:30pm ESTPanel Discussion: New Approaches to Inference - Will Farr, Scott Field, Natalia Korsakova, Michele Vallisneri  
12:30 - 1:30pm ESTBreak for Lunch/ Free Time  
1:30 - 2:15pm ESTMinimal Boundary Estimate for Irregularly Shaped X-ray Sources - Katy McKeough, Harvard University 
2:15 - 3:00pm ESTSTROOPWAFEL- an adaptive sampling algorithm to unravel the origin of gravitational-wave sources - Floor Broekgaarden, Center for Astrophysics | Smithsonian & Harvard 
3:00 - 3:30pm ESTMake your own Coffee/ Tea Break  

Associated Semester Workshops

Advances in Computational Relativity
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Lecture Videos

Statistical methods for the detection of weak continuous signals

M.Alessandra Papa
Max Planck Inst. for Gravitational Physics and U. Wisconsin Milwaukee
November 20, 2020

Tutorial: Parameter estimation with Bilby and Parallel Bilby part 1

Sylvia Biscoveanu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carl-Johan Haster
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 19, 2020

Tutorial: Parameter estimation with Bilby and Parallel Bilby part 2

Carl-Johan Haster
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sylvia Biscoveanu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 19, 2020

Tutorial: How to estimate parameters and test GR with PyCBC

Collin Capano
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
November 17, 2020