Scientific Program Overview


Plenary Program: Speakers and Titles
Nima Arkani-Hamed Gravity, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes
Eugenio Bianchi Loop Quantum Gravity
Alessandra Buonanno Probing the Nature of Gravity and Compact Objects with Gravitational-Wave Observations
Kipp Cannon Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Collisions
Tom Gaisser Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos
Gabriela Gonzalez Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Status and Latest Results
Donghui Jeong Cosmic Microwave Background as Laboratory for Fundamental Physics
Marc Kamionkowski Novel Relics from the Early Universe
Badri Krishnan Beyond Waveforms: The Role of Numerical Relativity in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics
Miguel Mostafa Multimessenger Astrophysics with AMON
Luciano Rezzolla The First Image of a Black Hole
David Weinberg Large Scale Structure and Dark Energy
Anne Kinney (Chair), Sheila Rowan, Bernard Schutz, Rainer Weiss Panel on Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Future Prospects
France Cordova
Banquet Speaker
Multimessenger Astronomy and the Big Questions of the Cosmos: The Billion Lightyear View

Parallel Sessions: Invited Panels and Topics
MM Astrophysics at the TeV Frontier: Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays, and Neutrinos
John Beacom (chair), Tim Linden, Alberto Oliva, Nahee Park
Numerical and Analytical Approaches to Gravitational Waves
Bernd Bruegmann (chair), Lawrence Kidder, Frank Ohme, David Radice
Multiwavelength Observations of Galaxies
Caryl Gronwall (chair), Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Sangeeta Malhotra, Jeffrey Newman
Cosmological Surveys
Zeljko Ivesic (chair), Chihway Chang, Bhuvnesh Jain, Elizabeth Krause
Multimessenger Observations
Mansi Kasliwal (chair), Ryan Chornock, Doug Cowen, Chad Hanna, Julie McEnery
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos
Kumiko Kotera (chair), Kohta Murase, Etienne Parizot, Abigail Vieregg
Cosmic Microwave Background: Observational Aspects
Charles Lawrence (chair), James Bartlett, John Carlstrom, Alan Kogut
Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
David Reitze (chair), Stefan Ballmer, Sheila Dwyer, Evan Hall, David Shoemaker
Theory and Simulations of Binary Neutrons Stars
Luciano Rezzolla (chair), Tim Dietrich, Tanja Hinderer, Kenta Kiuchi
The Early Universe: Theoretical Aspects
Mark Trodden (chair), Stephon Alexander, Mark Hertzberg

Parallel Sessions: Contributed Talks
Classical and Quantum Gravity: Foundations and Mathematical Aspects
Loop Quantum Cosmology, Quantum Black Holes and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
Scattering Amplitudes and Applications
Supergravity and Superstring Theory
Cosmology: Observational Aspects
Cosmology: Theoretical Aspects
Multimessenger Astrophysics
Gravitational Waves: Observations
Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors