ICTS

The meeting will consist of panel discussions with overview talks. The goal is to involve the participants in a lively discussion on current topics and future challenges in gravitational-wave physics and astronomy (broadly defined). 

 

PANEL DISCUSSIONS 

 

1. GW source modeling using analytical methods

   • Chair: K. G. Arun 

   • Overview: Guillaume Faye 

   • Panelists: Piotr Jaranowski, Ryuchi Fujita 

2. GW source modeling using numerical relativity

   • Chair: Rajesh Nayak 

   • Overview: Larry Kidder

   • Panelists: Prayush Kumar, Nathan Johnson-McDaniel 

3. New approaches to GW source modeling

   • Chair: Siddharth G Prabhu

   • Overview: Alessandra Buonanno

   • Panelists: Riccardo Sturani, Ashoke Sen, Shiraz Minwalla

4. Tests of GR and strong gravity

   • Chair: Yanbei Chen   

   • Overview: Chris Van den Broeck 

   • Panelists:, Sumanta Chakraborty, Badri Krishnan

5. State of dense nuclear matter from GW observations

   • Chair:  Sukanta Bose

   • Overview: Wolfgang Kastaun

   • Panelists: Debades Bandopadhyay, Sudip Bhattacharyya 

6. Cosmology using gravitational waves

   • Chair: Chris Messenger 

   • Overview: Archisman Ghosh 

   • Panelists: Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, L. Sriramkumar, Suhrud More

7. Multi-messenger astronomy

   • Chair: G. C. Anupama 

   • Overview: Kenta Hotakezaka

   • Panel: Varun Bhalerao, Poonam Chandra 

8. GW Astrophysics

   • Chair: Dipankar Bhattacharya, 

   • Overview: B. S. Sathyaprakash  

   • Panel: Tejaswi Venumadhav, Sourav Chatterjee 

9. Future GW detectors

   • Chair: Stan Whitcomb

   • Overview: David McClelland

   • Panelists: Rana Adhikari, Jo van den Brand, Yanbei Chen, Suresh Doravari

10. Future of GW data analysis

    • Chair: Sanjeev Dhurandhar 

    • Overview: Anand Sengupta

    • Panel: Archana Pai, Sanjit Mitra 

11. LIGO-India: Opportunities and challenges

    • Chair: Somak Raychaudhury 

    • Overview: Tarun Souradeep

    • Panel: Ajit Kembhavi, Fred Raab, P. Sreekumar 

12. Open discussion: The future of GW physics & astronomy 

    • Lead by Abhay Ashtekar and Stan Whitcomb​​​

 

SOCIAL PROGRAM 

Aug 20 (Tue) 18:15 - 19:30 hrs 

• Chair: G. Srinivasan 
• Sanjeev Dhurandhar: Early days of gravitational-wave research in India (Special lecture) 
• Felicitations​ of Bala Iyer. 

Banquet (19:30 - 21:30 hrs) at foyer area (Ramanujan LH)

 

SCHEDULE 

Aug 19 at 9.20 am: Overview and welcome remarks by Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar

	9:30 - 11:00	11:30- 13:00	14:00 - 15:30	16:00 - 17:30
Aug 19 (Mon)	Gravitational-wave source modelling using analytical methods	Gravitational-wave source modelling using numerical relativity	New approaches to gravitational-wave source modeling	ICTS distinguished lecture (Alessandra Buonanno) (16:30 - 18:00)
Aug 20 (Tue)	Tests of general relativity and strong gravity	State of dense nuclear matter from gravitational-wave observations	Cosmology using gravitational waves	Future gravitational-wave detectors (16:00 - 18:00)
Aug 21 (Wed)	Gravitational-wave data analysis	Gravitational-wave Astrophysics	Multi-messenger astronomy	Public lecture (Abhay Ashtekar)
Aug 22 (Thu)	LIGO-India	Open discussion: Future of gravitational-wave astronomy  (11:30 - 13:30)	FREE	FREE