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30 Years of Gravity Research in Australasia:
Past Reflections and Future Ambitions

Program

All times are in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). Click the links under the Time column to convert them into different timezones.

Day 1 — Monday 2nd September, 2024

Time Duration Title Speaker Abstract
9:25 am 5 min Welcome Susan Scott
Chair: Michael Tobar
9:30 am 1 hour Reflections on the last 30 years since the birth of the ASGRG Susan Scott (Australian National University)
10:30 am 30 min The era of gravitational wave astronomy Karl Wette (Australian National University)
11:00 am 30 min Morning tea
Chair: John Steele
11:30 am 30 min 30 years of Australian gravitational wave research David Blair (University of Western Australia)
12:00 pm 30 min Gravitational waves: a numerical exploration of the global scattering problem Chris Stevens (University of Canterbury)
12:30 pm 30 min Explosive new sources of gravitational waves Jade Powell (Swinburne University of Technology)
1:00 pm 1 hour Lunch
Chair: Susan Scott
2:00 pm 30 min Supermassive black holes across the Universe Christian Wolf (Australian National University)
2:30 pm 30 min Hawking radiation in conformally static spacetimes Swayamsiddha Maharana (Macquarie University)
3:00 pm 30 min Ultra-light dark matter searches with gravitational wave detectors Ornella Piccinni (Australian National University)
3:30 pm 30 min Afternoon tea
Chair: Chris Stevens
4:00 pm 30 min Galactic dynamics beyond dark matter Marco Galoppo (University of Canterbury)
4:30 pm 30 min Cosmology's Years in the Wilderness Malcolm Anderson (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)
5:00 pm 30 min Testing general relativity using gravitational waves from black hole ringdown Neil Lu (Australian National University)
5:30 pm 5 min Group photo (remote attendees)
5:35 pm End — day 1
7:00 pm Dinner at Wilma, 1 Genge St, Canberra

Day 2 — Tuesday 3rd September, 2024

Time Duration Title Speaker Abstract
Chair: Paul Lasky
9:30 am 30 min Australia's partnership in the first detection of gravitational waves David McClelland (Australian National University)
10:00 am 30 min Memory then and now: current developments in mathematical general relativity Volker Schlue (University of Melbourne)
10:30 am 30 min Light rings of nonsingular ultracompact objects sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics Ioannis Soranidis (Macquarie University)
11:00 am 30 min Morning tea
Chair: David McClelland
11:30 am 30 min Towards an Australian gravitational-wave observatory Paul Lasky (Monash University)
12:00 pm 30 min Robert's other metric Andrew Norton
12:30 pm 30 min Discovery and Timing of millisecond pulsars Matthew Bailes (Swinburne University of Technology / OzGrav)
1:00 pm 10 min Group photo (in-person attendees)
1:10 pm 50 min Lunch
Chair: Leo Brewin
2:00 pm 30 min Precision Low-Energy Experiments to Search for signs of Quantum Gravity and Dark Matter Particles Michael Tobar (University of Western Australia)
2:30 pm 30 min The Australasian side of Dark Energy Tamara Davis (University of Queensland)
3:00 pm 30 min Luminosity distance dispersion in Swiss-cheese cosmology as a function of the hole size distribution Thippayawis (Tong) Cheunchitra (University of Melbourne)
3:30 pm 5 min Closeout Susan Scott
3:35 pm End — day 2