Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (IAU S338)

• 1. Revealing short GRB jet structure and dynamics with gravitational wave electromagnetic counterparts Gavin Lamb; 2. Gravitational wave optical counterpart searching based on GRAWITA and DLT40 project during LIGO O2 run Sheng Yang; 3. On the host galaxy properties of stellar binary black hole mergers Youjun Lu; 4. Reanalysis of LIGO black-hole coalescences with alternative prior assumptions Davide Gerosa; 5. High accuracy measurement of gravitational wave back-reaction in the OJ287 black hole binary Mauri Valtonen; 6. Background rejection using convolutional neural networks Adam Zadrożny; 7. Merging massive black holes: the right place and the right time Astrid Lamberts; 8. Supermassive black hole binary candidates from the Pan-STARRS1 medium deep survey Tingting Liu; 9. GW170817: swift UV detection of a blue kilonova, and improving the search in O3 Aaron Tohuvavohu; 10. DESGW optical follow-up of BBH LIGO-Virgo events with DECam Robert Butler; 11. Cosmology with gravitational waves in DES and LSST Ken Herner; 12. Observations of GW170817 by DESGW and the DECam GW-EM collaboration James Annis; 13. Observations of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source by the TOROS collaboration Lucas Macri; 14. AGILE observations of GW events Francesco Verrecchia; 15. High power in advanced LIGO Terra Hardwick; 16. Strong-lensing of gravitational waves by galaxy clusters Graham Smith; 17. How Einstein's theory of relativity gives us E = mc2 and the atomic bomb Richard Henry.

'Minkowski's writing of special relativistic intervals as s2 = x2 + y2 + z2 – t2 is the most important insight into the nature of the Universe in the history of human thought.' Virginia Trimble, The Observatory Magazine