Poster Session I: Gravitational Physics (2:00PM-5:00PM MT)

Presentations

• Where We Lack Fundamental Physics: Engineering Cosmology for Thermodynamic Geometric Unification, Emergent Gravity

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: 1. Newell, M. J. (2025, August 9). A Unified Scientific Framework, A Perspective Discovery of Hidden Fundamental Principles: Entropy Driven Stochastic-Based Emulation Framework. Preprints, 202510.1048.v1.
  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17309747
  
  Submitted Physicals & Entropy, Rejected for Scope
  Foundations, Under Consideration

  Presenters

  • Madison Newell

    • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

  Authors

  • Madison Newell

    • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

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• Absolute quantum gravity (AQG) and quantum electrogravity (QEG)

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • David Parker

    • pgu.org

  Authors

  • David Parker

    • pgu.org

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• Investigation of Quantum Effects in the Interiors of Two Dimensional Black Holes

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Quantum effects inside of two-dimensional black holes (planned)

  Presenters

  • Amanda Peake

    • MIT, Department of Physics

  Authors

  • Amanda Peake

    • MIT, Department of Physics

  • Paul Anderson

    • Wake Forest University

  • Shoreh Gholizadeh Siahmazgi

    • Wake Forest University

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• Electron Gravitational Properties Ascend Guided by Principle of Physics (POP)

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: 1) US Patent 12,390,784 B2, August 19, 2025
  2) US Patent 11,998,884, June 4, 2024
  3) US Patent 11,766,654, September 26, 2023
  4) Feria, E. F., "First principles of linger-thermo theory, a time-complementary duality in physics, inherently lead to average mass of star particles and organism cells" , 234th Meeting of AAS, Cosmology, St. Louis, Miss., USA, 9-13 June 2019.
  5) Paper to be Submitted: Electron Gravitational Properties Ascend Guided by Principle of Physics, Elsevier Journal
  6) Paper to be Submitted: Principle of Universal Antigravitation is Revealed Guided by Principle of Physics, Elsevier Journal

  Presenters

  • Erlan Feria

    • City University of New York, College of Staten Island

  Authors

  • Erlan Feria

    • City University of New York, College of Staten Island

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• Quantization and Constraint Analysis of the Diffeomorphism Field in Two-Dimensional Anomalous Gravity

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Quantum Thomas-Whitehead Projective Gravity in Two Dimensions (master's thesis)
  Constraint Analysis and Quantization of Anomalous Thomas-Whitehead Gravity (planned)
  
  

  Presenters

  • Salvatore Quaid

    • University of Iowa

  Authors

  • Salvatore Quaid

    • University of Iowa

  • Vincent Rodgers

    • University of Iowa

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• Superradiance Suppression in a Black Hole in Conformally Invariant Gravity

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Yihan Shen

    • Grinnell College

  Authors

  • Yihan Shen

    • Grinnell College

  • Shanshan Rodriguez

    • Grinnell College

  • Leo Rodriguez

    • Grinnell College

  • Owen Gartlan

    • Grinnell College

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• Introduction to Tensor-Vector Gravity

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Sabina López Espinoza

    • Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

  Authors

  • Sabina López Espinoza

    • Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

  • Jonathan Lozano de la Parra

    • Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

  • Oscar Miguel Sabido Moreno

    • Universidad de Guanajuato

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• Striking a Chord with Spectral Sirens: multiple features in the compact binary population correlate with H0

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.07416

  Presenters

  • Utkarsh Mali

    • CITA

  Authors

  • Utkarsh Mali

    • CITA

  • Reed Essick

    • Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA

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• Real-Time Standard Siren H₀ Inference: Numerical Stability and Low-Latency Web Implementation

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Calvin Firth

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Calvin Firth

    • University of Minnesota

  • Simone Mastrogiovanni

    • Sapienza University

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• Geodesic Completion of Big Bangs from Emergent Geometry

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Manuscript in preparation, titled: Geodesic Completion of Big Bangs from Emergent Geometry

  Presenters

  • Cameron Corley

    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  Authors

  • Brooke Berrios

    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  • Cameron Corley

    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  • Sky O'donnell

    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  • Benjamin Shlaer

    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  • Jada Young

    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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• Higher Order Mode Generation for Optical Damping of Parametric Instabilities in LIGO

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Jaime Alvarez

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Jaime Alvarez

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Mapping Constructive Interference of Galactic White Dwarf Binaries in LISA Data

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Harry O'Mara

    • University of Arkansas

  Authors

  • Harry O'Mara

    • University of Arkansas

  • Aaron Johnson

    • Caltech

  • Daniel Oliver

    • Oregon State University

  • Daniel Kennefick

    • University of Arkansas Fayetteville

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• LISA’s Sensitivity and Detectability of Higher-Order Modes, Precession in Massive and Intermediate Black Hole Binaries, and Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Bhuvaneshwari Kashi

    • Florida Atlantic University

  Authors

  • Bhuvaneshwari Kashi

    • Florida Atlantic University

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• Misinterpreting spin precession as orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave signals

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: S. Tibrewal, A. Zimmerman, J. Lange and D. Shoemaker, "Misinterpreting spin precession as orbital eccentricity in gravitational-wave signals" (manuscript in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Snehal Tibrewal

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Snehal Tibrewal

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Aaron Zimmerman

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Jacob Lange

    • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Torino

  • Deirdre Shoemaker

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Probing the onset timing of the Ledoux convection in core-collapse supernovae using gravitational waves

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Paweł Kałwak

    • University of Warsaw

  Authors

  • Paweł Kałwak

    • University of Warsaw

  • Marek Szczepanczyk

    • University of Warsaw

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• Comparison of Spectral Representations of the Neutron Star Equation of State

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Leah Green

    • University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  Authors

  • Leah Green

    • University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Carl-Johan Haster

    • University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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• Beyond Isotropic Gravitational Waves: Search for Anisotropies with Pulsar Timing Arrays

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Lara Tunca

    • University of Florida

  Authors

  • Lara Tunca

    • University of Florida

  • Jiamin Hou

    • University of Munich

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• Superluminality of Dynamical Chern-Simons

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Alexander Cassem

    • Tufts University

  Authors

  • Alexander Cassem

    • Tufts University

  • Mark Hertzberg

    • Tufts University

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• Visualizing Binary Black Hole Mergers in Eccentric Orbits

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Matthew Stearns

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  Authors

  • Matthew Stearns

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Adhrit Ravichandran

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Scott Field

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Vijay Varma

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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• Comparing Agreement Between Waveform Models for Binary Black Hole Observations

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Nolan Davis

    • California State University, Fullerton

  Authors

  • Nolan Davis

    • California State University, Fullerton

  • Jocelyn Read

    • California State University, Fullerton

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• Accurate model for recoil velocity in binary black hole mergers up to mass ratio 200:1

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Tousif Islam

    • University of California Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Tousif Islam

    • University of California Santa Barbara

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• General Relativistic Triplet Interaction of Oscillation Eigenmodes in Deformed Neutron Stars

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • James Kwon

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • James Kwon

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Hang Yu

    • Montana State University

  • Nicolas Yunes

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Abhishek Hegade K R

    • Princeton Gravity Initiative

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• Don't Put Gravitons in Jail! Can the Wave-Particle Duality of Gravitons Provide the Philosophical Justification for Relativistic Beaming of Gravity?

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Blake, B.C., Black Holes Leak at the Poles; Solving the Mass Injection Problem of Astrophysical Jets by using Directed Gravity, The Journal of Cosmology, V. 26, No. 29, pp15460-15483.
  Blake, B.C., An Explanation for the Mass Gap between Neutron Stars and Black Holes, and a Proposed Unification, The Journal of Cosmology, V.26, No. 32, pp16099-16108.
  Blake, B.C., Relativistic Beaming of Gravity and the Missing Mass Problem, The Journal of Cosmology, V.26, No.27, pp 15390-15409.

  Presenters

  • Bradford Blake

    • N/A

  Authors

  • Bradford Blake

    • N/A

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• Student Team of Astrophysics Researchers (STARS) Undergraduate Pathways

  Poster-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Kaito Hasebe

    • University of Washington Bothell

  Authors

  • Timothy Dolch

    • Hillsdale College

  • Maura McLaughlin

    • West Virginia University

  • Brian Christy

    • Notre Dame of MD Univ

  • Margaret Mattson

    • West Virginia University

  • Sue Ann Heatherly

    • NRAO

  • Chris Byrne

    • Cascadia College

  • Monroe Kennedy

    • Lorain County Community College

  • Kelli Corrado

    • Montgomery County Community College

  • Joan Vogtman

    • Potomac State College

  • Ann Schmiedekamp

    • Penn State University Abington

  • Carl Schmiedekamp

    • Penn State University Abington

  • Erin Hardy

    • Lorain County Community College

  • Marjorie Darrah

    • West Virginia University

  • Kevin Bandura

    • West Virginia University

  • Megan DeCesar

    • George Mason University

  • Benetge Perera

    • University of Central Florida

  • Nana Fremah Nyarko

    • Notre Dame of Maryland University

  • Kaito Hasebe

    • University of Washington Bothell

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