In order to foster more regular interaction between scientists at
the MIT LIGO Lab and the MIT Kavli Institute, we are starting a
new weekly afternoon tea-time series from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM on
Wednesdays, to be hosted at the LIGO Lab (NW22-268).
The General Relativity Informal Tea-Time Series will
be a forum for regular discussion between the gravitational-wave
experiment, theory, and astrophysics communities at MIT and beyond. Every week,
we aim to have an informal discussion of recent research
topics. Occasionally, visitors will be invited to give a
presentation.
Schedule and location
This is the current schedule, for Spring 2016.
We plan on meeting every Wednesday, from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
May 2nd |
NW22 |
Ho Jung Paik (University of Maryland ) |
Superconducting Tensor Gravitational Wave Detector and Mitigation of Newtonian Noise |
April 5th |
NW22 |
Christopher Hilweg (University of Vienna) |
Testing the quantum and gravity interface with single photons |
Past schedule
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
December 6th |
NW22 |
Adam Libson (MIT) |
Quantum Optomechanics: Moving Macroscopic Objects with Light |
November 27th |
NW22 |
Chad Hanna (Penn State) |
The GSTLAL search algorithm |
November 18th |
NW22 |
Hsin-Yu Chen (U. Chicago) |
Optimizing Electromagnetic Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Events |
October 28th |
NW22 |
Katerina Chatziioannou (Montana State University) |
Modeling and Extracting Information from Spin-Precessing Compact Binary Inspirals |
October 22th |
NW22 |
Georgia Mansell (ANU) |
An in-vacuum squeezed light source with in-vacuum homodyne detection |
October 7th |
NW22 |
Archisman Ghosh (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) |
Parameter estimation and cosmology with gravitational waves |
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
December 12nd -- **2PM** |
NW22 |
Claudia Lazzaro (INFN Padova - UMass) |
Waveform reconstruction in coherent WaveBurst |
December 3rd |
NW22 |
Niels Warburton (MIT) |
The self-force approach to the general relativistic two-body problem |
November 19 |
NW22 |
Laura Sampson (Montana) |
Testing Relativity with the parameterized post-Einsteinian framework |
November 12 - 4.15PM |
NW22 |
Robert Penna (MIT) |
Black Hole Jets and the Membrane Paradigm |
October 22 |
NW22 |
Jeff McClintock (Harvard) |
Measuring the Spins of Accreting Black Holes |
October 15 |
NW22 |
Daniel Sigg (LIGO Hanford) |
Status of commissioning at LIGO Hanford |
October 1 |
NW22 |
Victor Pankratius (MIT Haystack) |
Computer-Aided Discovery: Scalable Machine Assistance for Big Data Science |
September 17 |
NW22 |
Duncan Brown (Syracuse) |
Searching for binary mergers with spin |
September 3 |
NW22 |
Victoria Grinberg (MIT) |
X-ray studies of the properties of black holes: relativistic iron lines |
Spring 2014 [toggle]
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
March 5 |
Marlar Lounge |
Sean McWilliams (WVU) |
Prospects for Detecting Stochastic Gravitational Waves from
Supermassive Black-Hole Binaries with Pulsar Timing Arrays |
March 7 |
NW22 |
Kai Hwang (USC) |
Cloud Analytics for Big-Data Intelligence in
Scientific Discovery and Social Application |
March 12 |
NW22 |
Rob Simcoe (MIT) |
Thoughts on Vertical Integration and the role of
MIT's OIR Resources for Gravitational Wave Astrophysics |
March 25 |
NW22 |
Lizhe Wang (IRSDE-CAS) |
Data-intensive Scientific Discovery in Digital Earth |
March 26 |
NW22 |
Evan Ochsner (UWM) |
Speeding up parameter estimation of compact binary coalescences |
April 2 |
Marlar Lounge |
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April 9 |
NW22 |
Maria Alessandra Papa (AEI) |
Searches for continuous gravitational wave signals |
April 16 |
NW22 |
Thomas Cotbitt (LSU) |
Recent progress with micro-fabricated mirror oscillators |
April 23 |
NW22 |
Jameson Rollins (Caltech) |
aLIGO Guardian progress and status |
April 30 |
Marlar Lounge |
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May 7 |
NW22 |
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May 14 |
Marlar Lounge |
Sveta Shah (Radboud University) |
Gravitational-wave astrophysics of eLISA Galactic binaries |
May 21 |
NW22 |
David Blair (UWA) |
TBD |
May 23 |
NW22 |
Nora Luetzgendorf (ESA) |
Intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters |
May 28 |
NW22 |
Charlie Dufort (MIT) |
Characterization of low-frequency seismometers signal in the Cambridge-MIT environment |
June 6 |
NW22 |
Takaaki Yokozawa (OCU) |
Supernova detection study: Investigation of progenitor core rotation with Gravitational Wave and Neutrino detector |
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
Nov. 6 |
NW22 conference room |
Leo Singer (Caltech) |
The Needle in the Hundred-Square-Degree Haystack: from Fermi GRBs to LIGO Discoveries |
Nov. 13 |
MKI Marlar lounge |
William Yam (MIT) |
LIGO: The Basics |
Nov. 20 |
NW22 conference room |
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Nov. 27 |
MKI Marlar lounge |
Bruce Allen (AEI Hannover) |
Einstein@Home |
Dec. 4 |
NW22 conference room |
Rainer Weiss (MIT) |
A Trio of Unintended Null Experiments
- why graduate students might take the long view |
Dec. 11 |
MKI Marlar lounge |
Andres Guzman (CFA) |
High-mass stars and their formation: sources of exciting phenomena |
Dec. 18 |
NW22 conference room |
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Spring 2013 [toggle]
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
Feb. 13 |
NW22 conference room |
Emil Mottola (LANL) |
New Horizons in Gravity: Dark Energy and Condensate Stars |
Feb. 20 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Dmitry V. Bisikalo (INASAN) |
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Feb. 27 |
NW22 conference room |
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March. 6 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
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March 13 |
NW22 conference room |
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March 20 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
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March 27 |
NW22 conference room |
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April 3 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Lisa Barsotti (MIT) |
Beyond Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors: beating the quantum limit with squeezed states of light |
April 10 |
NW22 conference room |
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April 17 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Krishna Venkateswara (UW) |
A mechanical absolute rotation sensor for Advanced LIGO |
April 24 |
NW22 conference room |
MKI postdoc symposium |
No seminar |
May 1 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Lu Feng (MIT) |
Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Observable with the Murchison Widefield Array |
May 8 |
NW22 conference room |
Fabrice Matichard (MIT) |
Tilt-Free Inertial Sensing Concept and Tilt-Horizontal Coupling Attenuation Experiment |
May 15 |
NW22 conference room |
Michael Kesden (NYU) |
Spin alignment in stellar-mass black-hole binaries: a diagnostic of compact-binary formation |
May 22 |
NW22 conference room |
Nevin Weinberg (MIT) |
Tides in Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries |
May 29 |
NW22 conference room |
Ron Remillard (MIT) |
Finding X-ray Counterparts for the Sources of Gravitational Waves |
June 5 |
NW22 conference room |
Sasha Buchman (Stanford) |
LISA 2020; A medium size gravitational wave observatory |
June 19 |
NW22 conference room |
Sharon Rapoport (CFA) |
Narrowing down the progenitor and explosion parameters space for GRB-SN. |
July 9 |
NW22 conference room |
Edo Berger (Harvard) |
Short GRB 130603B: The first detection of a kilonova? |
August 12 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Lee Lindblom (Caltech) |
Solving the Relativistic Inverse Stellar Structure Problem |
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
Sept. 18 |
NW22 conference room |
Rana Adhikari (Caltech) |
Recent paper: "Sub-40-mHz-linewidth laser based on a silicon single-crystal optical cavity" |
Sept. 26 |
NW22 conference room |
Richard Mittleman (MIT) |
Control loops primer. |
Oct. 3 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Reed Essick (MIT) |
Gravitational Bursts with Memory: Phenomenology and Proposed Search. |
Oct. 10 |
NW22 |
Informal discussion |
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Oct. 17 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Ruslan Vaulin (MIT) |
Can machine learning improve gravitational-wave searches? |
Oct. 24 |
No GRITTS |
Einstein Fellows Symposium |
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Oct. 31 |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Cancelled |
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Nov. 7 |
NW22 |
Herman Marshall (MIT) |
X-ray Surveys |
Nov. 15 1:30 p.m. |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Mario Diaz (UTB) |
The TOROS project |
Nov. 19 10:00 a.m. |
MKI Marlar Lounge |
Bruce Allen, AEI |
New blind-search gamma-ray pulsar discoveries |
Nov. 28 |
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Cancelled |
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Dec. 5 |
NW22 |
Jennifer Andrews (Umass Amherst) |
Stellar Clusters as Useful Probes of the Initial Mass Function |
Dec. 12 |
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Cancelled |
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Dec. 19 |
NW22 |
Paul Green (SAO) |
Haystack Needles: Finding and Characterizing Rare/Extreme
Celestial Objects |
Spring 2012 [toggle]
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
Feb. 8 |
NW22 conference room |
Ryan Lang (WUSTL) |
Doing science with future gravitational wave detectors |
Feb. 15 |
NW22 conference room |
Eric Thrane (UMN) |
Astronomy with the stochastic gravitational-wave background |
Feb. 22 |
NW22 conference room |
Salvatore Vitale |
Various LIGO data analyses |
Feb. 29 |
MKI 6th floor conf. room |
Jeff Kissel & co. (MIT) |
AdLIGO design made simple |
Mar. 7 |
NW22 conference room |
Leo Stein (MIT) |
GW phenomenology in quadratic gravity theories |
Mar. 14 |
NW22 conference room |
James Clark (UMass Amherst) |
Implications for the origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO observations |
Mar. 21 |
No GRITTS — LVC meeting. |
Mar. 28 |
NW22 conference room |
Brett Shapiro (MIT) |
Adaptive Modal Damping of Advanced LIGO Suspensions |
Apr. 4 |
MKI 6th floor conf. room |
Sheila Dwyer (MIT) |
Fundamentals of Squeezing |
Apr. 11 |
NW22 conference room |
Alessandra Silvestri (MIT) |
Cosmological Tests of General Relativity |
Apr. 18 |
No GRITTS — head over to the
MKI Postdoc
symposium in Marlar (37-252) from 11:45am-1:30pm. |
Apr. 25 |
NW22 conference room |
Ruslan Vaulin (MIT) |
Searching for Gravitational-Wave Transients and Their Electromagnetic Counterparts |
May 2 |
MKI 6th floor conf. room |
Adam Libson (UT Austin) |
General Control of Atomic Motion |
May 9 |
NW22 conference room |
Jeff Kissel (MIT) |
Modelling Magnetic Coupling to Suspensions |
May 16 |
No GRITTS — Sackler conference |
May 23 |
NW22 conference room |
Xiaoge Wang (Tsinghua University) |
SVM in noise identification |
May 30 |
MKI 6th floor conf. room |
Wen-Fai Fong (CfA) |
Short GRB Afterglows |
When |
Where |
Who |
What |
Sept. 7 |
MKI Solarium |
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aLIGO status; LIGO beam tube baffles; career gossip |
Sept. 14 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Brian Metzger |
What is the most promising electromagnetic counterpart of a neutron star binary merger? |
Sept. 21 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Chang-Hwan Lee |
Possibilities of Supercritical Accretion in Neutron Star Binaries |
Sept. 28 |
MKI Solarium |
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Electromagnetic counterparts |
Oct. 5 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Alexandre Le Tiec |
Relativistic dynamics of coalescing black hole binaries |
Oct. 12 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Satya Mohapatra |
Orbital hang-up in BBH coalescence and how it
affects search algorithms |
Oct. 19 |
MKI Solarium |
Jolyon Bloomfield |
Categorizing Models of Cosmic Acceleration |
Oct. 26 |
Marlar Lounge |
Bruce Allen |
Status of Gravitational Physics Research at Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover |
Nov. 2 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Matt Evans |
Low frequency GW detectors |
Nov. 9 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Umberto Cannella |
Testing gravity with gravitational waves - a field-theoretical perspective |
Nov. 16 |
MKI Solarium |
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein |
Doubly Special Relativity |
Nov. 23 |
No GRITTS — enjoy Thanksgiving! |
Nov. 30 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Young-Min Kim |
Neural Networks for Noise Hunting |
Dec. 7 |
No GRITTS — consider instead this special
seminar by Steve Giddings at 2:15pm in 6C-442. |
Dec. 14 |
NW22 Conf. room |
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EOB |
Spring 2011 [toggle]
When | Where | Who | What |
Jan. 24 |
Marlar Lounge |
Luke Kelley | studying NS birth
kicks with LIGO |
Jan. 31 |
NW22 Conf. room |
— | Discussion [papers
1,
2,
3]
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Feb. 7 |
Marlar Lounge |
Jeff Kissel | seismic isolation |
Feb. 9 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Christian Ott | black-hole formation |
Mar. 7 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Tamara Bogdanovic | EM counterparts of MBH mergers |
Mar. 21 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Sanghoon Oh | EM followups of GW triggers |
Mar. 28 |
Marlar lounge |
Konstantin Yakunin | supernovae simulations and GW emission |
Apr. 4 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Hagai Perets | the formation of GW sources (for both LIGO and LISA) in triple systems |
Apr. 25 |
Marlar lounge |
Sam Waldman | |
May 2 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Wen-Fai Fang | short gamma-ray burst observations |
May 9 |
Marlar lounge |
Bence Kocsis | dissecting accretion disks with gravitational
waves |
May 16 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Nico Yunes | tests of GR with LIGO |
May 23 |
NW22 Conf. room |
Manuel Tiglio | |
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