Unravelling the Universe with Pulsar Timing Arrays

from Thursday, 30 November 2023 (00:10) to Saturday, 2 December 2023 (13:00)
University of Pittsburgh

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
30 Nov 2023
1 Dec 2023
2 Dec 2023
AM
08:30
Breakfast (until 09:00) ()
09:00
Morning Early (until 10:20) (Forbes B)
09:00 Welcome   (Forbes B)
09:05 Intro to PTAs - Dr Paul Baker (Widener University)   (Forbes B)
09:45 Modeling Pulsar noise and predicting Pulsar TOA - Dr Ross Jennings   (Forbes B)
10:20
Coffee Break (until 10:50) (Forbes B)
10:50
Morning Late (until 12:10) (Forbes B)
10:50 Searching for GW bursts in PTAs - Prof. Neil Cornish   (Forbes B)
11:30 SMBHB formation and merger at high redshift - Nianyi Chen   (Forbes B)
08:30
Breakfast (until 09:00) ()
09:00
Morning Early (until 10:20) (Forbes B)
09:00 NANOGrav 15 yrs stochastic GW analysis - Sarah Vigeland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)   (Forbes B)
09:40 Neutron star equation of state with pulsars - Emmanuel Fonseca   (Forbes B)
10:20
Coffee Break (until 10:50) (Forbes B)
10:50
Morning Late (until 12:10) (Forbes B)
10:50 Observability of Dark Matter Substructure with Pulsar Timing Correlations - Harikrishnan Ramani   (Forbes B)
11:30 Domain Walls - Yang Bai   (Forbes B)
08:30
Breakfast (until 09:00) ()
09:00
Morning Early (until 10:15) (Forbes B)
09:00 NANOGrav tests of new physics - Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)   (Forbes B)
09:40 Sub-Nanohertz Gravitational Waves with PTAs - Dr Asaf Jeff Dror (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Forbes B)
10:15
Coffee Break (until 10:45) (Forbes B)
10:45
Morning Late (until 11:20) (Forbes B)
10:45 Future of NANOGrav and other PTAs - Prof. Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia University)   (Forbes B)
PM
12:10
Discussion (until 12:30) (Forbes B)
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00
Afternoon Early (until 15:20) (Forbes B)
14:00 SMBHB merger at low redshift - Sean McWilliams   (Forbes B)
14:40 Multi-messenger science with supermassive black hole binaries. - Tingting Liu   (Forbes B)
15:20
Coffee Break (until 15:50) (Forbes B)
15:50
Afternoon Late (until 17:10) (Forbes B)
15:50 Astrophysics from nanohertz GW - Dr Luke Zoltan Kelly (University of California at Berkeley)   (Forbes B)
17:15
Discussion (until 18:15) (Forbes B)
12:10
Discussion (until 12:30) (Forbes B)
12:30
Lunch Break (until 14:00) ()
14:00
Afternoon Early (until 15:20) (Forbes B)
14:00 Cosmological Phase Transition at PTA - Dr Arthur Kosowsky (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh)   (Forbes B)
14:40 Relic gravitational waves and primordial magnetic fields - Prof. Tina Kahniashvili (Carnegie Mellon University)   (Forbes B)
15:20
Coffee Break (until 15:50) (Forbes B)
15:50
Afternoon Late (until 17:10) (Forbes A)
15:50 Tests of GR - Dr Alex Saffer (West Virginia University)   (Forbes A)
18:00
Banquet (until 21:00) ()