22 April 2024
Louisiana State University, the DOE’s Los Alamos National Lab and Center for Nuclear Astrophysics Across Messengers, NASA’s Physics of the Cosmos Program, and possible future sponsors are happy to announce the workshop Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era. The workshop will be hosted at the Lod Cook Alumni Center and Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 23 – 26 September 2024.
The goal of this workshop is to identify problems in time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics that will most benefit from dedicated multidisciplinary studies. These cross-disciplinary studies include both combining expertise within different astrophysics disciplines as well as between astrophysics and other fields, including, but not limited to, nuclear science, atomic science, molecular science, plasma physics, fluid dynamics, turbulence, particle physics, gravitational physics, high energy density physics, and computational physics. This is necessary as observations of astrophysical phenomena in time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy are surpassing the fidelity of current approximate models. We invite the community to review the current state of resources in the relevant fields, reporting on existing collaborations and partnerships which cross disciplines, and identify barriers to multidisciplinary research. This workshop aims to understand how the scientific return of major facilities can be maximized through alignment of existing initiatives, facilities, and mechanisms and, if necessary, suggest the creation of new ones. Lastly, we ask the participants to conceive of methods to sustain growth in this area. More details can be found on the workshop webpage. You can sign up for updates on the conference here.
This workshop is the third in a series inspired by the Astro2020 Decadal’s report identification of time-domain and multimessenger astronomy as a key priority area this decade. The first was NASA’s Time Domain and Multi-Messenger (TDAMM) Astrophysics workshop held in August 2022, which produced a white paper available here, presented to NASA’s APAC FACA Committee. The second was NSF’s “Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem” workshop held in October 2023, which produced a white paper available here, presented to the AAAC FACA Committee which advises NSF, NASA, and DOE. This workshop aims to also respond to the long-range planning documents of other disciplines, including the 2023 Nuclear Long Range Plan, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel report, and the 2020 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics and 2021 Plasma Physics Decadals.