AGWS Workshop Presentations

Session 1: Overview of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

• Bernard Schutz
  Sources of Gravitational Waves: an Overview

• Lee Samuel Finn
  Gravitational wave detectors and detection in the year 2012 (PDF)

  Session 2: Astrophysical Collapses

  Session 3: Inspiralling Binaries and Gamma Ray Bursts

• Tomek Bulik
  Constraining Binary Evolution with Gravitational Wave Measurements of Chirp Masses

• Jay Norris
  A Subclass of GRBs as Possible LIGO-2 Gravitational-Wave Sources

• Peter Meszaros
  Gravitational Waves from GRB (PDF)

  Session 4: Gravitational Captures

• Steinn Sigurdsson
  Astrophysics of Captures

• Josh Faber
  Poster: Conformally Flat Hydrodynamics Calculations with a Spectral-Methods Field Solver (PDF)

• Marc Favata
  Poster: How black holes get their kicks! (PDF)

• Marc Freitag
  Poster: Captures of Stars by a Massive Black Hole: Investigations in Numerical Stellar Dynamics

• Chunglee Kim
  Poster: The Probability Distribution of Binary Pulsar Coalescence Rates

• Shiho Kobayashi
  Poster: Polarized Gravitational Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts

  Session 5: Intermediate Mass Black Holes

• Richard Mushotzky
  Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies

• Cole Miller
  Formation Scenarios for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

  Session 6: Massive Black Holes

• Paolo Coppi
  Massive Black Hole Growth and Formation

• Andrea Comastri
  The evolution of SMBH from Hard X-ray surveys

  Session 7: Massive Black Hole Binaries - Scenarios

  Session 8: Modeling Massive Black Hole Binaries

• Joan Centrella
  Calculating Gravitational Wave Signatures from Black Hole Binary Coalescence

• Scott Pollack
  Poster: Low Frequency Astrophysical Gravitational Wave Background

• Jonathan Thornburg
  Poster: A Fast Apparent Horizon Finder for 3-D Cartesian Grids in Numerical Relativity (PDF)

  Session 9: Galactic Binaries

• Gijs Nelemans
  Galactic Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Waves (PDF)

• Jeremy Heyl
  Do Old Neutron Stars Shiver to Keep Warm?

• Ian Jones
  Poster: Gravitational wave observations of pulsars (PDF)

  Session 10: Gravitational Wave Detection and Data Analysis

• Nergis Mavalvala
  Analysis of the first LIGO data

  Conference Summary

• Kimberly New
  Conference Summary: Ground-Based Detectors (1-104 Hz)

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