Program

Day 1 (Monday)
09:20 – 12:00
Morning session
  • 09:20
    Welcome
    Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno and Jean-Philippe Martinez (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
    SlidesRecording
    10m
  • 09:30
    Insights from The History of LIGO
    Speaker: Kip Thorne (California Institute of Technology)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology)
    60m
  • 10:30
    Coffee break
    30m
  • 11:00
    Aspects of General Relativity in France: 1965-2015
    Speaker: Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology)
    60m
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
90m
13:30 – 17:30
Afternoon session
  • 13:30
    Quantum Scattering Amplitudes Meet Gravitational Waves: New Post-Minkowskian Methods for the Relativistic Two-Body Problem
    Speaker: Zvi Bern (University of California, Los Angeles)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Mark Hannam (Cardiff University)
    60m
  • 14:30
    The Early History of the Two-Body Problem: From Einstein and Grommer to the Design of LIGO
    Speaker: Dennis Lehmkuhl (University of Bonn)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Mark Hannam (Cardiff University)
    60m
  • 15:30
    Coffee break
    30m
  • 16:00
    Panel: Why Did Progress in Analytical Relativity Differ in Europe Compared to the US, and More Generally Among Countries?
    Speaker: Alexander Blum (chair), Leor Barack, Luc Blanchet, Gerhard Schäfer, and Clifford Will
    SlidesRecording
    90m
Day 2 (Tuesday)
09:30 – 12:00
Morning session
  • 09:30
    Reflections on Aspects of the Two-Body Problem Circa 2005
    Speaker: Frans Pretorius (Princeton University)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Harald Pfeiffer (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
    60m
  • 10:30
    Coffee break
    30m
  • 11:00
    The Ongoing Pursuit: From the Numerical Relativity Breakthrough to the Next Decade of Multimessenger Astronomy
    Speaker: Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Institute of Technology)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Harald Pfeiffer (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
    60m
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
90m
13:30 – 17:30
Afternoon session
  • 13:30
    Cold War Roots of Numerical Relativity in the US
    Speaker: David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Jean-Philippe Martinez (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
    60m
  • 14:30
    The Two-Body Problem and International Community Building in General Relativity: A Network Approach
    Speaker: Roberto Lalli (Politecnico di Torino)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Jean-Philippe Martinez (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
    60m
  • 15:30
    Coffee break
    30m
  • 16:00
    Panel: Why Did Progress in Numerical Relativity Differ in Europe Compared to the US, and More Generally Among Countries?
    Speaker: Daniel Kennefick (chair), Miguel Alcubierre, Bernd Brügmann, Edward Seidel, and Larry Smarr
    SlidesRecording
    90m
18:00 –
Conference dinner
240m
Day 3 (Wednesday)
09:30 – 12:00
Morning session
  • 09:30
    Gravitational Waves: Perspectives on Conceptual Foundations
    Speaker: Abhay Ashtekar (Pennsylvania State University)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Pablo Laguna (University of Texas, Austin)
    60m
  • 10:30
    Coffee break
    30m
  • 11:00
    Bridging the Gap: The Journey to Accuracy in the Relativistic Two-Body Problem
    Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Pablo Laguna (University of Texas, Austin)
    60m
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
90m
13:30 – 17:45
Afternoon session
  • 13:30
    From Two to One: Understanding the Final State of the Two-Body Problem
    Speaker: Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash (Pennsylvania State University)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Deirdre Shoemaker (University of Texas, Austin)
    60m
  • 14:30
    The Evolution of Collaborations and Detectors for Gravitational Waves in the US and Europe
    Speaker: David Shoemaker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    SlidesRecording
    Chairperson: Deirdre Shoemaker (University of Texas, Austin)
    60m
  • 15:30
    Coffee break
    30m
  • 16:00
    Panel: Appreciation, Competition, and Synergism Between Analytical and Numerical Relativity Approaches
    Speaker: Adele La Rana (chair), Patrick Brady, Sascha Husa, Lawrence Kidder, and Adam Pound
    SlidesRecording
    90m
  • 17:30
    Concluding Remarks
    Speaker: Jean-Philippe Martinez (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam)
    SlidesRecording
    15m

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