Tentative Program

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

6:00 - 9:00 pm Registraton

Thursday, April 24, 2003

7:00 am Registration

Deluxe Continental breakfast starting at 7:30 am

Session #1 Overview of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics

8:00 - 8:15 Introductory Remarks - J. Centrella, J. Ormes
8:15 - 9:00 Overview of Astrophysical Gravitational Wave Sources - B. Schutz
9:00 - 9:45 Gravitational Wave Detectors and Detection in the Year 2012 - L. S. Finn


9:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break

Session #2: Collapses

10:15 - 10:50 The Road to Prediction: Toward Gravitational Wave Signatures from Core Collapse Supernovae - A. Mezzacappa
10:50 - 11:25 Gravitational Waves from Stellar Collapse (First Stars and Recent 3D Results) - C. Fryer
11:25 - 12:00 Collapse of Rotating Supermassive Stars to Supermassive Black Holes: Relativistic Simulations - S. Shapiro


12:00 - 12:30 Discussion

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch in Mount Clare Café

Session #3: Inspiralling Binaries and GRBs

1:45 - 2:20 Constraining Binary Evolution with Gravitational Wave Measurements of Chirp Masses - T. Bulik
2:20 - 2:55 Possible Class of Nearby Gamma-Ray Burst/Gravitational Wave Sources - J. Norris
2:55 - 3:30 Gravitational Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts - P. Meszaros


3:30 - 4:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session (Posters in Room 1123)

Session #4: Gravitational Captures

4:30 - 5:05 The Astrophysics of Captures S. Sigurdsson
5:05 - 5:40 Gravitational Waves from Captures S. Hughes


5:40 - 6:10 Discussion

Friday, April 25, 2003

7:00 am Registration
7:30 am Deluxe Continental Breakfast

Session #5: Intermediate Mass Black Holes

8:00 - 8:35 Middleweight Black Holes - R. Mushotzky
8:35 - 9:10 Optical Constraints on the Existence of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Universe - R. van der Marel
9:10 - 9:45 Formation Scenarios for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes - C. Miller


9:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break

Session #6: Massive Black Holes

10:15 - 10:50 Massive Black Hole Growth and Formation: A Theoretical Overview - P. Coppi
10:50 - 11:25 Prospects for Detecting Gravitational Radiation from Supermassive Black Holes - D. Richstone
11:25 - 12:00 Massive Black Holes at High Redshift: X-ray Observations - A. Comastri


12:00 - 12:30 Discussion

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch in the Mount Clare Cafe

Session #7: MBH/MBH Binaries - Scenarios

1:45 - 2: 20 Observational Evidence for Massive Black Hole Binaries - S. Komossa
2:20 - 2:55 Hierarchival Build-up of Massive Black Holes - M. Volonteri
2:55 - 3: 30 Gravitational Radiation from Super-Massive Black-Hole Binaries - S. Wyithe


3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break

Session #8: Modeling MBH/MBH Binaries

4:00 - 4:35 Mergers of Massive Black Hole Binaries - M. Milosavljevic
4:35 - 5:10 Binary/Multiple Black Holes in Hierarchically Merging Galaxies - M. Haehnelt
5:10 - 5:45 Calculating Gravitational Wave Signatures from Black Hole Binary Mergers - J. Centrella


5:45 - 6:15 Discussion

7:00 Conference Banquet Speaker: J. Taylor - "Progress Report on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy"

Saturday, April 26, 2003

7:00 am Registration
7:30 am Deluxe Continental Breakfast

Session #9: Galactic Binaries

8:00 - 8:35 Galactic Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Waves - G. Nelemans
8:35 - 9:10 Do Old Neutron Stars Shiver to Keep Warm? - J. Heyl


9:10 - 9:25 Discussion

Session #10: Detection and Data Analysis

9:25 - 10:00 Turning LISA into a Space Telescope - N. Cornish


10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:05 Searching for Gravitational Waves with Ground-based Interferometers - P. Brady
11:05 - 11:40 Analysis of Data from the LIGO's First Science Run - N. Mavalvala


11:40 - 11:55 Discussion

Conference Summary

11:55 - 12:30 Summary - K. New, P. Bender


12:30 - Conference Adjourns