COFI International Workshop on Gravitational Waves

5 Dec 2015, 08:00 → 6 Dec 2015, 20:00 America/Puerto_Rico

CERN

Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University (US))

Hotel "El Convento" in the Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

timetable.pdf

Saturday, 5 December

09:45 → 10:00 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University (US))

10:00 → 10:55 Review of gravitational waves (45'+10')

Speaker: Prof. Shane Larson (Northwestern University -- Adler Planetarium)

2015_cofi_gw.pdf

10:55 → 11:50 Modeling of Signals (45'+10')

Speaker: Prof. Christian Ott (CALTECH)

Ott_COFI_20151205.pdf

11:50 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:45 Interferometry (35'+10')

Speaker: Prof. Xavier Seimens (University of Wisconsin)

SiemensCOFIPertoRico.pdf

13:45 → 14:30 Radio waves and Pulsar timing (35'+10')

Speaker: Dr Andrew Seymour (Arecibo Observatory)

15:00 → 18:00 COFI Board of Director's meeting (restricted)

Sunday, 6 December

10:00 → 10:45 Gravitational waves using optical devices (35'+10')

Speaker: Dr Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

10:45 → 11:30 Gravitaional waves from cosmic microwave background polarization (35'+10')

Speaker: Dr Blake Sherwin (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

cofiTalkFinalVersion.pdf

11:30 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:45 High Energy Neutrinos from IceCube (35'+10')

Speaker: Prof. Kara Hoffman (UMD)

13:45 → 14:30 Closing remarks: Overview of the Arecibo Observatory

Speaker: Dr Edward Rivera-Valentin (Arecibo Observatory)

AreciboObservatory_COFI.pdf

16:00 → 20:00 COFI Domain Dinner Gala - Hitoshi Murayama