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Aug 20 – 22, 2025
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Program

Wednesday August 20

9-9:25: Coffee & Pastries 

9:25-9:30: Opening remarks, Leah Jenks

9:30 - 10: TBA, Max Isi

10-10:30: Cosmic Expansion and Gravitational Lensing with the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution, Amanda Farah

10:30-11: TBA, Vicky Kalogera 

11-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12: Effective Field Theories Meet Gravitational Wave Ringdown (and Immediately Regret It), Nico Yunes 

12-12:30: Detecting uHz Gravitational Waves with Binary Resonances, Josh Foster

12:30-2: Lunch

2-2:30: The B-Side of Gravitational Waves: Imprints of Primordial Tensor Perturbations in CMB B-Modes, Aurora Ireland 

2:30-3: Observing Leptogenesis in Action with Gravitational Waves, Jan Schütte-Engel

3-5:15: Discussion

5:15- 5:30: Discussion Recap 

5:30-7: Reception

Thursday August 21

9-9:30: Coffee & Pastries 

9:30 - 10: Supermassive Black Holes & Their Revelations: Musings On The Future of Nanohertz GW Astrophysics, Stephen Taylor 

10-10:30: Fun physics with serious math, Marc Kamionkowski

10:30-11: Theoretical Estimation of Anisotropies of Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in Pulsar Timing Arrays, Meng-Xiang Lin

11-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12: Vacuum Amplification of Chiral Gravitational Waves: Signatures in the Stochastic Background, Stephon Alexander

12-12:30: Numerical relativity in axi-dilaton gravity, Chloe Richards

12:30-2: Lunch

2-2:30: On black-hole hair and dark matter environments, Helvi Witek

2:30-3: Tidal signatures of black hole environments, Valerio De Luca 

3-3:30: Gravitational Signatures of Light QCD Axions in Neutron Stars, Michael Wentzel

3:30-5:30: Discussion

Friday August 22

9-9:30: Coffee & Pastries 

9:30 - 10: Detecting a Cosmological Gravitational-Wave Background with Next-Generation Detectors, Haowen Zhong

10-10:30: Characterizing the detectability of cosmological backgrounds at third-generation detectors, Francesco Iacovelli

10:30-11: TBA, Bei Zhou

11-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-12:30: Panel Discussion and Recap, TBA