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Here's the block schedule (download as pdf):

Times marked as “Contributed” are plenary times available for contributed talks. We can assign slots of 15 min or 20 min as we feel is appropriate.

• Opening remarks- 15
• Pfeiffer - 45
• Contributed - 30
  • NRDA+Sue to come up with names.

• Lundgren - 45
• Contributed - 45
  • McIver – DQ
  • Klimenko IMBH results
  • Ian Harry, Satya – probably parallel

• Losurdo - 30
• Barsotti - 20
• Somiya - 20
• Aso - 20
  • “Status of LIGO” type projects to go in parallel.

• Weinstein - 45
• Contributed - 45
  • Short plenary talks to introduce IndIGO and LIGO-Australia

• Stappers - 45
• Contributed - 45
  • 3 requested talks fill up time

• Astone - 30
• Contributed - 60
  • Colin Gill, Tania Regimbau, Sukanta Bose, Nobuyuki Kanda
  • Parallel: Alberto Vecchio, Reinhard Prix, Ignacio Santiago-Prieto, John Whelan

• Hild - 30
• Corbitt - 20
• Brand - 20
• Hammond - 20

• Sathyaprakash - 45
• Contributed - 45

• Vallisneri - 45
• Contributed - 45
  • LISA pathfinder technology - Hewitson
  • LISA de-scope - Jennrich?

• Colpi - 45
• Contributed - 45
  • GWIC thesis prize + student prizes - 30 (?)
  • Contributed - Decigo - 15 (?)

• Soderberg - 45
• Skymapper - Rapoport

• Shawhan - 30
• Contributed - 30
  • Probably: Skymapper, Was, followup talk in plenary. Others in parallel/poster.

Suggest 15 minute talks, making 4 talks in the 1 hour session. For contributed talks, could do 20 minute talks.

Submissions and requests per topic:

• Space based – about 30 abstracts.
• Source modelling – about 7 abstracts. Mostly folded into NRDA, although there are some non-binary talks that need to find a home.
• Advanced detector technology – about 60 abstracts. 8 invited talks. Would like 6 parallel sessions, leaving about 30 for posters. LIGO Australia and Indigo talks – do they go in plenary or parallel?
• Pulsar Timing – 3 talks, 3 posters. No parallel session needed.
• Long duration sources – 8 submitted talks. 4 talks for plenary. 4 other talks in a single parallel session. Probably on Thursday (after plenary).
• Astro + Cosmo with advanced detectors – 16 abstracts (2 invited). 13 talk submissions, probably time for 6 in plenary time. 7/8 in posters or parallel.
• Multi-messenger astronomy – one abstract moved to space detectors. 11 talks, 4 posters requested. 2 parallel sessions requested; if only 1 then could make some of the methods talks as posters.
• EPO – only one abstract, try to fill the session.

Possible Discussion sessions:

• Open data
• Q&A session – 10 things you wanted to know about GW but were afraid to ask.
• …

• Sascha Husa – 30
• Larne Pekowsky – 30
• Discussion – 30

• Frank Ohme – 45
• Contributed talks
  • Bernard Kelly (15)
  • Ajith (15)
  • Discussion (15)

• Kenta Kiuchi – 45
• Contributed talks
  • Jocelyn Read (15)
  • Ban Lackey (15)
  • Discussion

• John Veitch – 45
• Contributed talks
  • Ilya Mandel (15)
  • Deirdre Shoemaker (15)
  • Discussion (15)

Suggestions:

• Monday 2-3:
  • Yi Pan
  • Christian Roever
  • Riccardi Sturani
  • Michael Puerrer
• Monday 4.30-5.30
  • Carlos Lousto
  • Geoffrey Lovelace
  • Patricia Schmidt
  • Discussion
• Tuesday 2-3:
  • Carlos Sopuerta
  • Daniela Alic
  • Filippo Galeazzi
  • Ian Hinder
• Tuesday 4.30-5.30:
  • Drew Keppel
  • Ian Harry
  • Adbul Mroue
  • Discussion

Nigel Bishop, Rob Owen, Kenta Hotokezaka, Barry Wardell, Ben Farr, Mike Boyle, Maria Babiuc-Hamilton, Thilina Dayanga, Willem van Holton, Noichika Sago, Mark Edwards, Satya Mohapatra, Emma Robinson, Siong Heng, Slutsky, Mukherjee

Here are the numbers of abstracts submitted by the June 10 deadline: