Event speakers
Duncan Brown (timeline: 00:03:09)
Syracuse University Duncan Brown is the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at Syracuse University and a leader in the field of gravitational wave astronomy, using LIGO to detect gravitational waves from black holes and neutron stars Talk Title: GW170817: The Detection of a Binary Neutron Star Merger Presentation File |
Mansi Kasliwal (timeline: 00:17:46)
California Institute of Technology Mansi Kasliwal is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Caltech and the PI of GROWTH, a worldwide network consisting of approximately 100 astronomers operating 18 telescopes on six continents who work together to track cosmic transients, such as the electromagnetic signatures of GW170817 Talk Title: Illuminating Gravitational Waves |
Daniel Kasen (timeline: 00:32:50)
University of California, Berkeley Dan Kasen is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Berkeley, lead investigator on a DOE Exascale Computing Project that is developing high-performance astrophysical simulation codes, and a leader in the modeling of the "kilonova" r-process afterglow in neutron-star merger events Talk Title: Origin of the Heavy Elements in Neutron Star Mergers Presentation File |
Jocelyn Read (timeline: 00:51:45)
California State University, Fullerton Jocelyn Read is an Assistant Professor of Physics at California State University Fullerton and is a leader in the modeling of how neutron stars interact, collide, and radiate energy, connecting observations to the structure and composition of these ultra compact objects Talk Title: GW170817's Source: Neutron-Star Characteristics Presentation File |
Artemis Spyrou (timeline: 01:07:17)
Michigan State University Artemis Spyrou is an Associate Professor of Physics at NSCL and Michigan State University and a leader in nuclear physics experiments with rare isotopes that constrain neutron capture rates needed to understand the path of the r-process Talk Title: Neutron-Star Mergers and New Opportunities in Rare Isotope Research Presentation File |
Event panelists
Ani Aprahamian (timeline: 01:27:32) University of Notre Dame Nuclear Physics Experiments |
Andreas Bauswein (timeline: 01:30:45) HITS Heidelberg Neutron Star Merger Simulations |
Jim Lattimer (timeline: 01:24:00) Stony Brook University Theoretical Nuclear Physics |