35th Midwest Relativity Meeting talk schedule
University of Guelph
Friday, October 31st, 2025 — Room 113, MacKinnon Building
8:30–8:55 Registration (Room 103, MacKinnon Building)
8:55–9:00 Opening remarks
9:00–9:15 Conner Dailey (Friedrich Schiller University)
Quasi-local conservation laws as a framework for boundary conditions in numerical relativity
9:15–9:30 Vahid Taherkhani (Zanjan University)
Advances in Numerical Relativity for Modeling Compact Binaries and Gravitational Wave Emission
9:30–9:45 Alejandro Cardenas-Avendano (Wake Forest University)
High-Order Time Derivatives of Kerr Orbital Functionals
9:45–10:00 Estuti Shukla (Penn State University)
Identifying spacetimes using neural networks
10:00–10:15 Zachary Tyler (Oakland University)
3D Simulations of the Ekpyrotic Cosmological Scenario
10:15–10:30 Alexandra Guerrero (University of Chicago)
Comparison of binary compact object merger populations from population-synthesis codes
10:30–11:00 Coffee break (Room 103, MacKinnon Building)
11:00–11:15 Anuradha Gupta (University of Mississippi)
Extracting Astrophysical Clues from Eccentric, Precessing Binary Black Hole Dynamics
11:15–11:30 Diogo Gripa Rodrigues (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Geodesics and stability of a black hole surrounded by an anisotropic fluid
11:30–11:45 Marina De Amicis (Niels Bohr Institute)
Dynamical quasinormal mode excitation
11:45–12:00 Carlos F. Sopuerta (Institute of Space Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council)
Perturbed black holes and Integrability
12:00–12:15 Jamie Bamber (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Evolution of a black hole cluster in full general relativity
12:15–12:30 Kiana Salehi (Perimeter Institute)
Influence of observer’s inclination and spacetime structure on photon ring observables
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–2:15 Chaitanya Khamar (University of Toronto-CITA)
Testing Redshift Distributions in Gravitational-Wave Sources: A New Approach with V/V_max
2:15–2:30 Ania Liu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Lensing-Induced Biases in Gravitational-Wave Inference and Tests of General Relativity
2:30-2:45 Ryan Beam (Grand Valley State University)
Modeling Multimessenger White Dwarf Binaries Within The Milky Way
2:45–3:00 Brett Bolen (University of Waterloo, Perimeter Institute)
Using the LISA spacecraft to detect NEO
3:00–3:15 Yiqi Xie (CITA)
Neural Post-Einsteinian Test of General Relativity with the Third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
3:15–3:30 Antonia Seifert (Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo)
Testing the Inspiral-Merger-Ringdown Test with Boson Stars
3:30–3:45 Chloe Richards (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Numerical relativity in biscalar-tensor gravity
3:45–4:15 Coffee break (Room 103, MacKinnon Building)
4:15–4:30 Jury Radkovski (Perimeter Institute, McMaster University)
Towards Quantization of Horava Gravity
4:30–4:45 Harpreet Singh
Quantum nature of spacetime curvature in the deep quantum regime of a black hole
4:45–5:00 Siavash Sohrab (Northwestern University)
Physical Foundations of Schrödinger and Dirac Wave Equations and their Implications to Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Gravity
5:00–5:15 Andrew Kovachik (McMaster University)
Quantum Gravity Predictions in Lorentz-Violating Gravity from Moving Black Holes
5:15–5:30 Vladislav Ganiyev (Brock University)
Wormholes in $f(R,T_{ab}T^{ab})$ modified-gravity theory
5:30–5:45 Ruolin Liu (University of Waterloo, Perimeter Institute)
Conformal Cores of Quantum Black Holes in Quadratic Gravity
Saturday, November 1st, 2025 — Room 113, MacKinnon Building
9:00–9:15 Victor Zhang (University of Chicago)
The Entropy of Dynamical Black Holes and Apparent Horizons
9:15–9:30 Alex Buchel (University of Western Ontario)
Causality and instability of the relativistic hydrodynamics from holography
9:30–9:45 Sercan Hüsnügil (Perimeter Institute)
Sourced Carrollian Fluids Dual to Black Hole Horizons
9:45–10:00 Utkarsh Mali (CITA)
Guesswork in the gap: the impact of uncertainty in the compact binary population on source classification
10:00–10:15 Tristan Pitre (University of Guelph)
Impact of nonlinearities on relativistic dynamical tides in compact binary inspirals
10:15–10:30 Ramesh Radhakrishnan (Baylor University)
Scalar field perturbation of a rotating wormhole to obtain quasi-normal modes
10:30–11:00 Coffee break (Room 103, MacKinnon Building)
11:00–11:15 Anna Tsai (CITA)
Reaching diffraction-limited resolution with coherent pulsar timing arrays
11:15–11:30 Berend Schneider (University of Guelph)
Conserved quasi-local multipole moments in full non-linear General Relativity
11:30–11:45 Robert Weinbaum (University of Chicago)
Can Dirac Fields Source Traversable Wormholes?
11:45–12:00 Alessandro Pisana (Brock University)
Topology Change and Wormhole Nucleation via Topological Surgery in Lorentzian Geometry
12:00–12:15 Murtaza Jafry (University of Chicago)
An Observer For Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
12:15–12:30 Alex Koek (University of Alberta)
Spinoptics in the Kerr Spacetime: Polarized Wave Scattering
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–2:05 Blue Apple award winner announced (Room 113, MacKinnon Building)
2:05–2:20 David Garfinkle (Oakland University)
Initial data of slow fall off
2:20–2:35 James Wheeler (University of Michigan)
Asymptotically Euclidean Solutions of the Constraint Equations with Prescribed Asymptotics
2:35–2:50 Suvendu Giri (Uppsala University)
A “dictionary” to test GR with GW: from observations to theory
2:50–3:05 Ueli Pen (CITA)
Measuring helicity of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds
3:05–3:20 Luciano Combi (Perimeter Institute)
A binary black hole metric approximation for all practical purposes (in magnetohydrodynamics)
3:20–3:35 Erik Schnetter (Perimeter Institute)
A Yang-Mills-like formulation of General Relativity
3:35–3:50 Barak Shoshany (Brock University)
OGRePy: Object-Oriented General Relativity in Python
3:50–4:05 Sizheng Ma (Perimeter Institute)
GW250114 reveals black hole horizon signatures
4:05–4:20 Nicolas Yunes (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Rotating black holes beyond Einstein
4:20–4:45 Coffee break (Room 103, MacKinnon Building)
4:45–5:00 David Taylor (Relativistic Perspective)
Relativistic Mechanisms for Entropy Reversal
5:00–5:15 Pramod Kumar
Speed of light (electromagnetic wave) (c) is not constant in space and crisis on the theory of relativity
5:15–5:30 Thomas Andersen (nSCIr.ca)
Einstein's Missing Energy
5:30–5:45 Charles Sven
Observations of Overlooked Power Flows Lets Us Describe the Beginning of our Physical Universe
EricFest schedule
University of Guelph
Sunday, November 2nd, 2025 — Room 113, MacKinnon Building
9:00–9:40 Clifford Will
Eric and other bodies in free fall: does their acceleration depend on their internal structure?
9:40–9:55 Scott Hughes
Chasing Eric’s elegance for 3 decades
9:55–10:35 Leor Barack
Self-force now and then
10:35–11:05 Coffee break (Room 103)
11:05–11:45 Patrick Brady
Black holes: From the inside, out
11:45–12:25 Sharon Morsink
The masses and radii of the neutron stars observed by NICER
12:25–1:45 Lunch
1:45–2:25 Eanna Flanagan
Following Eric's footsteps down the rabbit hole of the two body problem
2:25–3:05 Jocelyn Read
Neutron stars: Promises and challenges from gravitational-wave astronomy
3:05–3:45 Katerina Chatziioannou
Testing the nature of Kerr black holes and Hawking’s area theorem with gravitational waves
3:45–4:15 Coffee break + group photo
4:15–4:55 Frans Pretorius
Insights into the rotating black hole interior from numerical solutions
4:55–5:00 Closing remarks
6:00 Arrival at Royal City Brewing for people who registered for the EricFest dinner.
