General info

The Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop 2021 is a meeting that started in the 90s, originally dedicated to gravitational wave data analysis. In the years the focus has shifted and now GWPAW addresses the most interesting topics in gravitational wave physics and astronomy.

The setting is informal, with no parallel sessions and plenty of time for discussion. The formats of the various sessions will vary, in order to best support the different themes. Posters will be digitally available for the entire meeting with some extra audio-visual support.

The meeting will be held at the Courtyard Marriott Machsee hotel on the city lake and a 10 minute walk to the beautiful Christmas markets of the old city center.

We hope to be able to hold the meeting in-person and welcome many of you in Hannover this December!

245 participants, of which 80 attending in person

Topics

  • Multi-messenger observations
  • r-processes nucleosynthesis
  • jet physics
  • formation and evolution of compact objects
  • neutron star structure
  • cosmology
  • fundamental physics
  • waveform modelling
  • new gravitational wave searches
  • pulsar timing arrays and space-based detectors

Keynote speakers and Panelists



Kate Alexander

Kate Alexander

Northwestern University

GWs and X-ray observations

Asimina Arvanitaki

Asimina Arvanitaki

Brad Cenko

Brad Cenko

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

GW and UV astronomy

Martyna Chruslinska

Martyna Chruslinska

Radboud University

Modelling cosmic star formation

Derek Davis

Derek Davis

California Institute of Technology

Improving the quality of GW data

Robert Farmer

Robert Farmer

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Pair instability supernovae and the gap

Anastasios Fragkos

Anastasios Fragkos

Université de Genève

The progenitors of compact binaries: what about spins ?

Zoltan Haiman

Zoltan Haiman

Columbia University

Science with LISA

Jeffrey Hazboun

Jeffrey Hazboun

University of Washington Bothell

PTA science

Tanja Hinderer

Tanja Hinderer

Universiteit Utrecht

Neutron star equation of state

Kenta Hotokezaka

Kenta Hotokezaka

University of Tokyo

Sascha Husa

Sascha Husa

University of the Balearic Islands

Modelling the gravitational wave signal of compact binaries

Bence Kocsis

Bence Kocsis

University of Oxford

The progenitors of compact binaries: formation in AGN disks

Simone Mastrogiovanni

Simone Mastrogiovanni

Université de Paris

Cosmology with gravitational waves

Alex Nitz

Alex Nitz

MPI for Gravitational Physics

Compact binary inspiral observations

Benjamin Owen

Benjamin Owen

Texas Tech University

Continuous Gravitational Waves

Tania Regimbau

Tania Regimbau

Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules

Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds

David Reitze

David Reitze

California Institute of Technology

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors

Stephan Rosswog

Stephan Rosswog

The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics

Multi-messenger observations: r-processes nucleosynthesis

Stephen Smartt

Stephen Smartt

Queen's University Belfast

GWs, optical and IR astronomy

Silvia Toonen

Silvia Toonen

U. Amsterdam

The progenitors of compact binaries: formation in triples (and higher)

Scientific Organizing Committee

  • P. Ajith, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru
  • B. Allen, MPI for Gravitational Physics Hannover, Germany
  • I. Arcavi, Tel Aviv U., Tel Aviv, Israel
  • M. Baryakhtar, U. Washington, USA
  • A. Buonanno, MPI for Gravitational Physics Potsdam, Germany
  • S. De Mink, MPI for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
  • D. Brown, U. Syracuse, Syracuse, USA
  • H-Y. Chen, MIT, USA
  • A. Corsi, Texas Tech U., Lubbock, USA
  • M. Kasliwal, Caltech, Pasadena, USA
  • E. Katsavounidis, MIT, USA
  • I. Mandel, Monash U., Melbourne, Australia
  • C. Mingarelli, University of Connecticut, USA
  • S. Nissanke, U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • L. Nuttall, U. Portsmouth, UK
  • M.A. Papa (Chair), MPI for Gravitational Physics Hannover, Germany
  • M. Sasaki, U. Tokyo, Japan
  • P. Shawhan, U. Maryland, USA
  • T. Tanaka, U. Kyoto, USA
  • E. Thrane, Monash U., Melbourne, Australia