ICTS

9:30 - 13:00 Overview of LIGO results

Chair: Bala Iyer (ICTS)

09:30-09:40

Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS)

Welcome remarks 

09:40-10:35

Stan Whitcomb (Caltech)

Advanced LIGO in the dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy

10:35-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:55

Sergei Klimenko (University of Florida)

LIGO observation of a binary black hole merger

11:55-12:50

John Veitch (University of Birmingham)

Deciphering the discovery: Astrophysical implications of GW150914

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Physics, astronomy, and cosmology using gravitational-wave observations

Chair: Sukanta Bose (IUCAA)

14:00-14:35

Walter Del Pozzo (University of Birmingham)

Do astrophysical binary black holes behave as expected? Lessons from GW150914

14:35-15:10

Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA)

Stochastic GW background: Searches and science

15:10-15:45

Arunava Mukherjee (ICTS)

Constraining the nuclear equation of state using GW observations of neutron star binaries

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 - 18:00 Interface of electromagnetic and gravitational astronomy

Chair: Archana Pai (IISER-Tvm)

16:15-16:50

Samaya Nissanke (Radboud University)

Follow the Roar: Localisation and the Electromagnetic (EM) follow-up of GW150914 and what’s next?[REMOTE TALK]

16:50-17:25

Varun Bhalerao (IUCAA)

Indian eyes on gravitational wave sources.

17:25-18:00

Biswajit Paul (RRI)

Astrosat-LAXPC: some early results and prospects for GW

9:30 - 10:20 The next generation of GW detectors

Chair: Rajesh Nayak (IISER-Kolkata) 

09:30-10:20

B. S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff University)

Einstein, Quo Vadis?

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:20 - 12:30 The next generation of GW detectors

10:50-11:40

Rana Adhikari (Caltech)

Future Detectors and their Potential

12:30 – 13:30        Lunch

13:30 - 15:15 Gravitational-wave source modeling

Chair: K. G. Arun (CMI)

13:30 - 14:05

Guillaume Faye (IAP)

Modelling inpiraling binaries of compact objects by means of the post-Newtonian approximation: status and challenges

14:40 - 15:15

Frank Ohme (Cardiff University)

Complete waveform models in the era of gravitational-wave detections [REMOTE TALK]

15:30 - 17:00 Panel discussion: 100 years of gravitational waves

• Panelists: Bala R Iyer, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Stan Whitcomb

• Moderator:P. Ajith

17:00-17:30 Coffee/Social

17:30 Public lecture by Stan Whitcomb