Program

Morning Session
8:50-9:00	Gathering
9:00-9:35	Tsvi Piran	EM counterparts of gravitational waves signals from neutron star mergers
9:35-10:10	Jeff Steinhauer	Observation of quantum Hawking radiation and its entanglement in an analogue black hole
10:10-11:45	Dan Maoz	Local double white dwarfs and their GW-driven merger rate.
11:45-11:15	Coffee break
11:15-11:50	Ely Kovetz	The LIGO Discovery and Massive Compact Dark Matter
11:50-12:25	Kenta Hotokezaka	Numerical relativity simulation of coalescing neutron star binaries
12:25-13:00	Harald Pfeiffer	Applications of binary black hole simulations
13:00-14:30	Lunch
Afternoon Session
14:30-15:30	Barry Barish	LIGO: Detection of Gravitational Waves, their Implications and future Prospects
15:30-16:05	Ofek Birnholtz	Modeled searches for Compact Binary Coallescences in LIGO data
16:05-16:25	Coffee break
16:25-17:00	Tal Alexander	The relativistic loss-cone around a massive black hole
17:00-17:35	Hagai Perets	Novel channels for production of GW sources and electromagnetic counterparts: from natal kicks to massive black holes