PAX 2022

1 Aug 2022, 08:50 → 3 Aug 2022, 18:00 America/New_York

6-120 (MIT)

B Sathyaprakash (PSU), Emanuele Berti (JHU), Marie Woods (MIT), Salvatore Vitale (MIT Kavli and LIGO)

Motivation: In the last few months, three major events have increased the urgency to plan for Next-Generation (NG)  ground-based gravitational-wave detectors.
The completion of the Cosmic Explorer Horizon Study, the inclusion of the Einstein Telescope in the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap, and the strong recommendations in the Astro 2020 decadal, all show that the time is now ripe for discussing the potential and challenges associated with NG detectors.

The purpose of PAX-VIII is to better understand what can be done with NG observatories, and what are the factors that could limit their scientific potential. PAX is largely a discussion-based workshop with very strong involvement of participants. 
To enhance discussion and engagement, the participants list is capped at 100, including SOC members and panelists. 

Details: As of now, we expect the meeting to happen in person at MIT, over a 3 day period, with sessions in the morning and afternoon. Given that the situation with Covid is still volatile, participants are encouraged to make reservations which can be easily canceled. To keep PAX free of registration fees, this will not be an hybrid workshop as we won't have person power to stream audio and video in a consistent way. Should we be obliged to move to an online-only version, we would hold PAX over a 5 day period, with sessions in the morning only (Boston time zone) 

We encourage participants to explore lodging options (including AirBnB) in areas around Cambridge (e.g. Brookline, Boston and Somerville). Lodging around MIT has unfortunately become expensive enough that it might be significantly more convenient to stay farther away and take a bus/metro/uber to MIT. All sessions are in building 6 room 120, in main campus. The closest metro stop is "Kendall" on the red line, 5 minutes walk from the venue. The bus 1 goes up and down Massachusetts Avenue, and has a stop in front of MIT's main entrance.

PAX 2022 is kindly supported by the NSF through the award PHY-2228849 and by the MIT Kavli Institute.  

Accessing MIT: you should have received an email with a link that explains how to get a visitor pass. If you haven't, please let us know. Not all doors can be used with the pass (called Tim Ticket). If you come from Massachusetts Avenue, the most convenient entry point is building 7. If you come from Kendall Square, the most convenient access point is building 16. 

Food near the venue: please see this google document 

Organizing committee:

Salvatore Vitale (chair)
B. Sathyaprakash
Emanuele Berti

 

Monday 1 August

08:50 → 09:00 Welcome

09:00 → 10:30 3G data analysis challenges

SOC members: Rory Smith, Sarah Caudill
Panelists: Sylvia Biscoveanu, Peter Couvares, Ben Farr, Surabhi Sachdev,

Computation Challenges.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Tests of general relativity

SOC Chairs: Anuradha Samajdhar, Luis Lenher
Panelists: Michalis Agathos, Gregorio Carullo, Andrew Tolley, Helvi Witek

Tests_of_GR.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Equity diversity and inclusion

SOC Chairs: Amber Strunk, Wanda Diaz-Merced

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Waveform Challenges and numerical relativity

SOC Chairs: Vijay Varma, Mark Hannam
Panelists: Rossella Gamba, Lionel London, Kenta Kiuchi

NRandWFchallenges.pdf

Tuesday 2 August

09:00 → 10:30 Astrophysical populations

SOC Chairs: Michela Mapelli, Vicky Kalogera
Panelists: Martyna Chruslinska, Maya Fishbach, Tassos Fragos, Carl Rodriguez

Astrophysical_populations.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 High-redshift universe

SOC Chairs: Jenny Greene, Yuexing Li
Panelists: Fabio Pacucci, Eli Visbal, Naoki Yoshida

High-redshift-universe.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 ECS Lunch

Panelists: Edo Berger, Sarah Caudill, Ben Farr, Lionel London, Sarah Shandera

Convener: Prof. Salvatore Vitale (MIT Kavli and LIGO)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Dark matter

SOC Chairs: Sarah Shandera, Masha Baryakhtar
Panelists: Pippa Cole, Will East, Gustavo Marques-Tavares

DarkMatter.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Nuclear physics

SOC Chairs: Phil Landry, Elias Most
Panelists: Cole Miller, Jaki Noronha-Hostler, Carolyn Raithel

EOS.pdf

Wednesday 3 August

09:00 → 10:30 Multimessenger astrophysics

SOC Chairs: Ashley Villar, Poonam Chandra
Panelists: Alessandra Corsi, Kenta Hotokezaka, Charlie Kilpatrick

MMA.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Cosmology

SOC Chairs: Eleonora di Valentino, Will Farr
Panelists: Jose Maria Ezquiaga, Suvodip Mukherjee, Antonella Palmese

Cosmology.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Roadmap to next-generation GW detectors

SOC Chairs: David Shoemaker, Edo Berger
Panelists: Julie McEnery, Susanna Vergani

RoadmapToXG.pdf

15:30 → 15:35 Meeting ends