Resources

DGRAV Seminar Series

Recent and Upcoming Seminars:

1st Thursday of each month, 3pm Eastern Time.

Date: Speaker: Title:

May 7, 2026

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Bangalore Sathyaprakash (Pennsylvania State University) and Wendy Dang (Pennsylvania State University)

 "Next-generation dark sirens for precision measurement of the Hubble Constant"

April 2, 2026

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Helvi Witek (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Chloe Richards (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

 

 "Black holes and fundamental fields — from biscalar gravity to probes of dark matter"

March 5, 2026

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Begüm Kabagoz (MIT Kavli Institute) and Georgia Mansell (Syracuse University)

 "Squeezing in LIGO: How it works, victories & challenges"

February 5, 2026

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Thomas Colas (DAMTP, Cambridge U.) and Santiago Agui Salcedo (KICP, U. of Chicago)

 "An open system approach to gravity and cosmology"

December 4, 2025

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Gabriela González (Louisiana State University) and Debasmita Nandi (Louisiana State University) 

 “Microseismic ground motion induced scattered light noise at the LIGO Livingston detector in the fourth observing run”

October 2, 2025

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Scott Field (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) and Tousif Islam (University of California Santa Barbara)

 "Toward accurate models of intermediate-mass-ratio gravitational waves: combining numerical relativity and black-hole perturbation theory"

September 4, 2025

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Cecilia Chirenti and Victor Guedes

 "Constraining the neutron star equation of state with gamma-ray bursts"

May 1, 2025

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Sukanta Bose (Washington State University) and Vaishak Prasad (Penn State)

 "Strong gravity physics of dynamical horizons in black hole mergers and its imprint in their gravitational radiation"

April 3, 2025

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Emil Mottola and Evan David, University of New Mexico

 "Gravitational Vacuum Condensate Stars in the Effective Theory of Gravity"

February 6, 2025

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Deirdre Shoemaker (University of Texas at Austin) and Aasim Jan (University of Texas at Austin)

 "Numerical Relativity's Continued Impact on Gravitational Waves"

November 7, 2024

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Jocelyn Read (California State University, Fullerton) and Lami Suleiman (California State University Fullerton)

 

 "Probing the Dense Matter Equation of State with Gravitational-wave Detections of Neutron Stars"

October 3, 2024

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Digvijay (Jay) Wadekar (IAS, Princeton) and Tejaswi Venumadhav (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 "New black hole mergers from a search pipeline for gravitational wave signals with higher-order harmonics"

May 2, 2024 

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Prof. Daniel Holz (U. of Chicago) and Ms. Amanda Farah (U. of Chicago)

 DGRAV Minus DAP: Gravitational-wave cosmology without astrophysics

March 7, 2024, 12pm EST 

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Prof. Sourav Chatterjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) and Mr. Chirag Chawla (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

 Gaia's Black Holes and Why they are Special

December 7, 2023

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Prof. Alessandra Papa (Max Planck Institute) and Dr. Benjamin Steltner (Max Planck Institute)

 "Volunteer Computing to Search the Sky for Continuous Gravitational Wave Emission"

November 2, 2023

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Prof. Samuel Gralla (U. of Arizona) and Mr. Hongji Wei (U. of Arizona)

 "Bob in a black hole, or: On Decoherence from Horizons"

October 5, 2023

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Prof. Xavier Siemens (Oregon State University) and Dr. Joe Simon (University of Colorado Boulder)

“Evidence for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves in the NANOGrav 15-yr dataset“

May 4, 2023

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Prof. Eugenio Bianchi (Pennsylvania State University) and Prof. Lucas Hackl (University of Melbourne)

"Quantum Information and Quantum Gravity"

April 6, 2023

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Prof. Salvatore Vitale (MIT) and Ms. Sylvia Biscoveanu (MIT)

 “The spins of binary black holes following LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run“

March 2, 2023

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Prof. Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt U.) and Dr. Nihan Pol (Vanderbilt U.)

 “The Dawn of Pulsar Timing Array Gravitational-wave Astronomy”

Feb. 2, 2023

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Prof. Saul Teukolsky (Caltech & Cornell University) and Mr. Keefe Mitman (Caltech)

 “Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns"
December 1, 2022

View Recording		 Prof. Bob Wald (U. of Chicago) and Dr. Gautam Satishchandran (Princeton U.) “Black Holes are Watching You”

November 3, 2022

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 Prof. Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute) and Prof. Masha Baryakhtar (U. Washington) "Searching for Ultralight Particles with Black Hole Superradiance"

October 6, 2022

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Prof. Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins U) and Dr. Kaze Wong (Flatiron Institute)

 “Building new tools for gravitational wave astronomy”


Speaker nominations:

We are accepting suggestions for speakers (including self-nominations) here.

Current committee members:

Chloe Richards (2026 - present; chair since 2026)

Deborah Ferguson (2023 - present; chair in 2024-2026)

Meg Millhouse (2024 - present)

Anuradha Gupta (2025 - present)

Eugenio Bianchi (2025 - present)

 

Past committee members:

Kent Yagi (2022 - 2025; chair in 2022 - 2024)

Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano (2023 - 2025)

Thomas Baumgarte (2022 – 2024)

Delilah Gates (2022 – 2023)

Bangalore Sathyaprakash (2022 – 2024)

Sarah Vigeland (2022 – 2023)

 

Contact Info:

Chloe Richards (chair)
richards4@kenyon.edu

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