The conference banquet will be held at 6:30 pm on Thursday at the Charlottesville Omni.
We will begin with a welcome to UVa from the University's Provost, Tom Katsouleas, followed by a welcome from the chair of UVa's Physics Department, Joseph Poon.
The after-dinner speaker will be Joseph A. Giaime, Observatory Head, LIGO Livingston (Caltech), Professor of Physics and Astronomy (LSU), who will speak on the exciting subject of gravitational waves.