Asian Gravitational Wave Astronomy Meeting (AGWAM) 2026

from Sunday, 5 July 2026 (09:00) to Saturday, 11 July 2026 (18:00)
National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) (Andromeda Meeting Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Jul 2026
6 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026
AM
09:00
Registration (until 10:00) (Andromeda meeting room)
10:00 Introduction to Gravitational-Wave Experiments: Exploring the Universe from LIGO and CHRONOS - Yuki Inoue   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
10:30 Multimessenger binary black hole localisation - Otto Hannuksela   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Spinning Extreme-Mass-Ratio-Inspirals into an Astrophysical Black Hole: Onset of Chaos at Astrophysically Realistic Spin - Mr Surajit Das (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
11:45 Physics-Informed Neural Network for Kilonova Light Curves Modeling - Surojit Saha (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
10:00 Introduction to GR - Apimook Watcharangkool (NARIT)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
11:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:50 GWs: Basics - Ian Vega (University of the Philippines)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
10:00 GW Instrumentation: I - Yuki Inoue   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:00 TBA - Alvin Chua (National University of Singapore)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
10:30 Gravitational waves from super-radiant axion clouds - Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto University)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Towards Global EMRI Search with the f-Function - Davendra Hassan (National University of Singapore)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
11:45 Characterizing Bias in Multi-Source Gravitational Wave Inference with LISA - Rishav Agrawal (National University of Singapore)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
10:00 --- Excursion NARIT headquarters ---
11:45 A Joint Search for Circular Polarization and Kinematic Dipole Anisotropies in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background - Dr Sevgi Karadağ (Tamkang University)   ()
PM
12:00 Dynamical Formation of Merging Compact Binaries - Dong Lai   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Gravitational-wave lensing in an active galactic nucleus - Dr Paul Martens (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK))   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
14:45 Hierarchical mergers as tracers of globular cluster formation history - Andris Dorozsmai (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
15:00 Supermassive Black Hole Formations via Bondi Accretion of Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Feng-Li Lin   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
15:30 Continuous gravitational-wave searches for dark matter in O4 LIGO data - Andrew Miller (ICTP - AP / University Chinese Academy of Sciences)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Eccentricity evolution consistency test to distinguish eccentric gravitational-wave signals from eccentricity mimickers - Sajad Ahmad Bhat (Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), India)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
16:45 Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by Dehnen dark matter halo - Dr Supakchai Ponglertsakul (Silpakorn University )   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:30 DA Analysis: Hands On - Prof. Otto A. Hannuksela (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK))   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Principles of LIGO/LISA/PTAs: I - Achamveedu Gopakumar (TIFR)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
18:00 --- Banquet ---
12:00 Principles of LIGO/LISA/PTAs: II - Achamveedu Gopakumar (TIFR)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30 DA Analysis: Hands On - Siyuan Chen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 EFT cosmology and GWs - Vicharit Yingcharoenrat (Chulalongkorn University)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
12:00 Cosmological and High Energy Physics implications from gravitational-wave background searches in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s O1-O4a runs - Prof. Mairi Sakellariadou (King's College London)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:30 A High-Precision Annual Parallax Measurement Program for PTA Pulsars with VLBI - Hideyuki Kobayashi (NARIT)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
14:50 Refining Gravitational Wave and Collider Physics Dialogue via Singlet Scalar Extension - Dr Van Que Tran (NCTS, National Taiwan University)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
15:10 The Wave Nature of Gravitational-Wave Lensing and Its Opportunities - Han Gil Choi   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
15:25 Studying astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays - Siyuan Chen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
15:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Special session   (Andromeda Meeting Room)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00 --- Excursion, Thai National Radio Observatory ---
12:00 Bright sirens, dark sirens and gravitational-wave cosmography - Hyung Mok Lee (Seoul National Univ.)   (Andromeda Meeting Room)