Notes

1. The character “*” denotes a student talk; eligible for DGRAV’s best student talk prize.
2. All talks are 12+3 format (12 minutes of speaking, 3 minutes of questions).
3. FEB = Fascitelli Engineering Building (location of the meeting).

Friday, June 9th

Time
8:30 – 9:00	Check-in and breakfast (FEB Room ENGR 010C)
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome remarks, Leonard Kahn (URI)

(9:15 – 10:30) Session 1, Numerical Relativity; Chair: Michael Puerrer

	Talk
9:15 – 9:30	Dynamical perturbations of black-hole punctures: Effects of slicing conditions, Sean Li* (Bowdoin College)
9:30 – 9:45	Critical Collapse of Gravitational Waves, Thomas Baumgarte (Bowdoin College)
9:45 – 10:00	Behavior of dynamical ejecta from black hole-neutron star binaries near neutron star disruption limit, Tia Martineau* (UNH)
10:00 – 10:15	Multi-messenger Observables from BNS and BHNS Mergers, Steve Liebling (Long Island University)
10:15 – 10:30	A discontinuous Galerkin method for the distributionally-sourced s=0 Teukolsky equation, Manas Vishal* (UMass Dartmouth)
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break (FEB Lobby)

(11:00 – 12:15) Session 2, Gravitational Wave Models and Astronomy; Chair: Tia Martineau

	Talk
11:00 – 11:15	Building surrogate model of spinning binary black hole coalescence using perturbation theory waveforms, Ritesh Bachhar* (University of Rhode Island)
11:15 – 11:30	Eccentric Corrections to the Final Mass and Final Spin of a Binary Black Hole Merger, Michael Giarratana* (Montclair State University)
11:30 – 11:45	Which came first: Supernova kick or black hole spin?, Vishal Baibhav (Northwestern University)
11:45 – 12:00	QCD Phase Transitions in Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Simulations and Detectability, Aviral Prakash* (Penn State)
12:00 – 12:15	Dynamical Friction of Exotic Compact Objects in Ultralight Dark Matter, Soumodeep Mitra* (University of South Dakota)
12:15 – 1:30	Lunch (FEB Lobby)

(1:30 – 2:30) Session 3, Gravitational Wave Data Analysis; Chair: Scott Field

	Talk
1:30 – 1:45	Rapid and Reliable Simulation-based Gravitational-Wave Inference with Dingo, Michael Puerrer (University of Rhode Island)
1:45 – 2:00	Marginalizing time in black hole spectroscopy of GW150914, Collin Capano (UMass Dartmouth)
2:00 – 2:15	Constructing Template Banks for Intermediate Duration Gravitational Waves, Michael St. Pierre* (University of Rhode Island)
2:15 – 2:30	Building a Better Template Bank: A test of astrophysical models using the cross-correlation search method for intermediate-duration gravitational waves, Matthew Maini* (University of Rhode Island)
2:30 – 3:00	Coffee Break (FEB Lobby)

(3:00 – 4:15) Session 4, Mathematical Relativity; Chair: Colin Capano

	Talk
3:00 – 3:15	Determining the extremality of Reisner Nordstrom Black-Holes using late-time tails at Scri, Som Dev Bishoyi* (UMass Dartmouth)
3:15 – 3:30	Analytic metric for a spiraling halo, Caroline Mallary (U2GRC)
3:30 – 3:45	Nonminimally coupled gravitating vortex: phase transition at critical coupling ξc in AdS3, Ariel Edery (Bishop’s University)
3:45 – 4:00	A generalization of photon sphere based on escape cone, Masaya Amo* (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics)
4:00 – 4:15	Geodetic Motion of Massive and Massless Particles in Levi-Civita Spacetime, Ashiqul Dip* (NC State University)

Saturday, June 10th

Time
9:30 – 10:00	Check-in and breakfast (FEB Room ENGR 010C)

(10:00 – 10:45) Session 5, Quantum Gravity; Chair: Thomas Baumgarte

	Talk
10:00 – 10:15	Semiclassical Dynamics of Hawking Radiation, David Lowe (Brown University)
10:15 – 10:30	Quantum cosmology, eternal inflation, and swampland conjectures, Georgios Fanaras* (Tufts University)
10:30 – 10:45	The Topological Structure of Quantum Gravity as a Statistical System using Topspin Networks, Chris Duston (Merrimack College)
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break (FEB Lobby)

(11:15 – 12:00) Session 6, Modified gravity; Chair: Rob Coyne

	Talk
11:15 – 11:30	All black holes are quantized by the temperature of our universe as a black hole, Paul OBrien (APS)
11:30 – 11:45	Award for best student talk (Sponsored by DGRAV), closing remarks
11:45 – 1:00	Lunch (FEB Lobby)