“The eternal mystery
of the world is its
comprehensibility.”

Albert Einstein

Similarly to previous Amaldi conferences the final scientific program will be determined by members of the Gravitational Wave International Committee with the assistance of the Local Organizing Committee. The local organizing committee includes experimentalists, theorists and astronomers mostly from the Northeastern United States:

  • Szabolcs Marka, Columbia University (chair)
  • Lam Hui, Columbia University
  • David Helfand, Columbia University
  • Kristen Menou, Columbia University
  • Zoltan Haiman, Columbia University
  • Zsuzsa Marka, Columbia University
  • Janna Levin, Barnard College
  • Peter Saulson, Syracuse University
  • Alessandra Buonanno,University of Maryland
  • Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland
  • Erik Katsavounidis, MIT
  • Scott Hughes, MIT
  • Laura Cadonati, University of Massachusetts
  • Deirdre Shoemaker,GeorgiaTech
  • Jolien Creighton, U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  • Syd Meshkov,Caltech
  • Andrea Lommen, Franklin and Marshall College

  • The organizing committee also includes additional representatives of major gravitational wave communities outside of United States :

  • Martin Hewitson, AEI, Germany
  • Patrick Sutton, Cardiff University, UK
  • Ik Siong Heng, University of Glasgow, UK
  • James Hough, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Kimio Tsubono, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Mio Norikatsu, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • David McClelland, Australian National University, Australia
  • Susan Scott, Australian National University, Australia
  • Fulvio Ricci, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
  • Benoit Mours, LAPP-Annecy, France
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