Astronomy, Cosmology, Relativity and Gravitation

Presentations

• Spin-Orbit Alignment of Extrasolar Planets as a Probe of their Origin and Evolution

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  May 16, 2015, 1:30 PM – May 16, 2015, 2:00 PM

  Authors

  • Jason Barnes

    • University of Idaho

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• Alfven's Theory of Sunspots and the Emission of Gravitational Waves from the Center of the Sun

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 2:00 PM – May 16, 2015, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Friedwardt Winterberg

    • University of Nevada Reno

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• Rotation Measures of diffuse polarized emission: Insights into Galactic magnetism from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 2:12 PM – May 16, 2015, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Anna Ordog

    • University of Calgary

  • Jo-Anne Brown

    • University of Calgary

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• Self-Consistent Primordial Helium Abundance Determinations using MCMC

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 2:24 PM – May 16, 2015, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • Erik Aver

    • Gonzaga University

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• Accretion of The Magnetized Neutrino-cooled Torus on a Rotating Black Hole

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 2:36 PM – May 16, 2015, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Fatemeh Hossein Nouri

    • Washington State Univ

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• A high order accurate finite difference scheme with boundary closures for astrophysical simulations

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 2:48 PM – May 16, 2015, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Wyatt Brege

    • Washington State University

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• Break

  COFFEE_KLATCH

  May 16, 2015, 3:00 PM – May 16, 2015, 3:30 PM

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• Probing Physics with Observations of Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  May 16, 2015, 3:30 PM – May 16, 2015, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Jeremy Heyl

    • University of British Columbia

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• Experimental highlights and challenges in Advanced LIGO

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 4:00 PM – May 16, 2015, 4:12 PM

  Authors

  • Kiwamu Izumi

    • LIGO Hanford Observatory

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• Estimation of aligned search efficiency for low-mass coalescing generic spinning binary black holes in gravitational wave data

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 4:12 PM – May 16, 2015, 4:24 PM

  Authors

  • Nairwita Mazumder

    • Washington State Univ

  • Stephen Privitera

    • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam-Golm, Germany

  • Parameswaran Ajith

    • International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

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• Improving LIGO Data Quality By Detecting Artifacts Arising from Bilinear and Nonlinear Noise Couplings

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 4:24 PM – May 16, 2015, 4:36 PM

  Authors

  • Bernard Hall

    • LIGO Scientific Collaboration/WSU Relativity Group

  • Nairwita Mazumder

    • LIGO Scientific Collaboration/WSU Relativity Group

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• Acoustic Franz Wave Scattering From Circular Cylinders

  POSTER

  May 16, 2015, 4:36 PM – May 16, 2015, 4:48 PM

  Authors

  • Anthony Smith

    • Washington State University

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• Gravitational wave detectors for the coming decades

  ORAL

  May 16, 2015, 4:48 PM – May 16, 2015, 5:00 PM

  Authors

  • Sheila Dwyer

    • LIGO Hanford Observatory, Caltech

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