Ready, set, go! Preparing for the O4 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

8 May 2023, 00:00 → 9 May 2023, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Festsaal (Festsaal of the Humboldt University of Berlin)

Marek Kowalski (Z_NA (Neutrinoastronomie / Kosmologie))

Monday 8 May

Registration

1 Welcome

Speaker: Marek Kowalski

Kowalski_Welcome_GW_2023.pdf

2 O4-GW sensitivity

Speaker: Jonathan Gair

Gair_ZTFMeeting_Berlin_May2023.pdf

3 Setting the stage: what can we (hope to) learn from future GW-multi-messenger events?

Speaker: Stephan Rosswog

4 Advancing Multimessenger searches, thoughts and actions

Speaker: Barak Zackay

Zackey_GW-EM-O4-Berlin.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

5 Observational signatures of the interaction between the relativistic jet and the sub-relativistic ejecta in a merger event

Speaker: Udi Nakar

Nakar_Berlin_2023.pptx

6 Joint nuclear-physics and multi-messenger astrophysics interpretation of compact binary mergers

Speaker: Tim Dietrich

Dietrich_Tim_Berlin_May_2023.pdf

7 The critical role of nuclear heating rates, thermalization efficiencies, and opacities for kilonova modelling and parameter inference

Speaker: Mattia Bulla

Bulla_Berlin.pdf

12:45 Lunch

8 ZTF Transients

Speaker: Dan Perley

GWBerlin_ZTF_Perley.pptx

9 ZTF follow-up plans & GROWTH

Speaker: Mansi Kasliwal

Kasliwal_O4Workshop (2).pptx

10 GRANDMA

Speaker: Pierre-Alexandre Duverne

Duverne GRANDMA_collaboration_follow-up_strategy_for_O4.pdf

11 ENGRAVE

Speaker: Andrew Levan

Levan_engrave_o4_ztf_berlin.pptx

15:45 Coffee Break

12 Modelling the diverse EM counterparts of neutron star binary mergers

Speaker: Nikhil Sarin

NikhilSarin_Berlin2023.pdf

13 Towards realistic modeling of the electromagnetic counterparts of neutron star mergers

Speaker: Kyohei Kawaguchi

Kawaguchi_20230508.pdf

14 Future prospects for distinguishing neutron stars from black holes using only gravitational waves

Speaker: Stephanie Brown

Brown_Stephanie_ZTF_May2023.pdf

18:00 Reception | Come Together

Tuesday 9 May

08:30 Welcome

15 A large-scale dynamo and its application to electromagnetic signals in binary neutron star mergers

Speaker: Kenta Kiuchi

GW O4 tal Kiuchi.zip

16 LAST

Speaker: Nora Linn Strotjohann

2023_gwworkshop_berlin_strotjohann.pdf

17 ULTRASAT + SOX

Speaker: Avishay Gal-Yam

Gal-Yam-2023.pptx

18 Gamma-ray follow-up with H.E.S.S.

Speaker: Ruslan Konno

Konno_GW_O4_Workshop.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

19 Gravitation Wave sources in AGN discs

Speaker: Matthew Graham

Berlin 2023_graham.pptx

20 Multi-messenger signature of colliding stars

Speaker: Pau Amaro Seoane

2_5388872088784219286_seoane.pdf

21 Nuclear transients in ZTF

Speaker: Simeon Reusch

Simeon_Reusch_Nuclear_Transients_in_ZTF.pdf

22 Prospects of how a future UV satellite could contribute to our understanding of kilonovae

Speaker: Bas Dorman

Bas Dorsman Prospects Berlin 9 May 2023.pdf

12:30 Lunch

23 SkyPortal: A data science platform to enable time-domain astronomy with a heterogeneous telescope network

Speaker: Josh Bloom

skyportal_o4_berlin_powerpoint.pptx

24 AMPEL: Reproducibility and Code-to-Data in the era of high throughput Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Speaker: Jakob Nordin

AmpelGwGo.pdf

25 Observations in the next decade

Speaker: Brad Cenko

15:30 Coffee break

Discussion

Convener: Marek Kowalski (DESY)