Tyson Littenberg (ST12) organized and convened a Special Session at the January American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting on behalf of the NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Study Team titled “LISA: A Time Domain and Multimessenger Mission.” The special session covered the multimessenger and time domain astronomy aspects of the LISA science case. The session featured a diverse panel of four early career scientists at the forefront of gravitational wave astronomy: Krysta Lynn Smith (Southern Methodist University) presented an overview of the LISA mission and science goals, Katie Breviek (Carnegie Mellon University) summarized the galactic astronomy with LISA; Jessie Runnoe (Vanderbilt University) discussed the multimessenger counterparts to massive black hole mergers; and Hsin-Yu Chen (University of Texas) showed how multimessenger observations with LISA will constrain cosmological parameters. The speakers then participated in a panel discussion about the research needed between now and LISA operations to take full advantage of the mission.
