Hosted on June 3rd, 2026 by Duncan Lorimer, the first annual GWAC Symposium highlighted various physics and astronomy topics. This was an opportunity for students and faculty to communicate and learn from one another, showcasing the collaborative nature of our Physics and Astronomy program.
The slide deck for the GWAC Symposium can be found here.
The panel titles and information can be found below:
- Shawaiz Tabassum – GREENBURST View of MSP Single Pulse Emission
- Tim Olszanski – On the Amplitude Modulation in PSR B0540+230
- Sean McWilliams – How black holes get their superkicks: spins and the radiation rocket
- Sid Mahesh – Adventures in Black Hole Binary Waveform Modeling
- Jackson Taylor – Pulsars as Accelerometers
- Yechan Kweon – A Computer Vision Approach to Radio-Frequency Interference Analysis in Radio Astronomy Data
- Tyler Thomas – Revisiting the Parkes 70 cm Survey with Machine Learning
- Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton – From Raw Numerical Gravitational Wave Data to Maximum Neutron Star Mass Constraints
- Suchindram Dasgupta – Modelling Gravitational Wave Memory with SEBOB
- Duncan Lorimer – Gamma-ray and radio models of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters
- Vladimir Strokov – Gravitational-wave source mixing in LISA
- Maura McLaughlin – The RRATalog: Towards a classification and understanding of rotating radio transients
- Emmanuel Fonseca – Measuring Frame Dragging and the Moment of Inertia in Binary Radio Pulsars
- Graham Doskoch – A Search for Chromatic Transient Events in IPTA DR3
- Randy Loberger – Probing Abnormal Dipping Behavior in the X-ray Binary, Cen X-3
- Ross Jennings – Cyclic Spectroscopy for Pulsar Scintillometry
- Anuj Kankani – Modeling Extreme Gravity: From Relativistic Plasmas to Gravitational Waves
For any questions related to research topics or getting involved, please reach out to Duncan at duncan.lorimer@mail.wvu.edu