Winter-Spring Workshop 2003: The Initial Data Problem


  • 1/9/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Richard Matzner, Physics Department, University of Texas "Constructing Initial Data for Black Hole Spacetimes, and Understanding Their Content"

  • 1/17/03 10:30 A.M., 351 W. Bridge Harald Pfeiffer, Physics Department, Cornell University "The Initial-Value Problem of General Relativity --- Its Formulation as Elliptic Equations"

  • 1/24/03 10:30 A.M., 351 W. Bridge Michael Holst, Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego "Weak Solutions to the Einstein Constraint Equations and the Adaptive Finite Element Approximation"

  • 1/31/03 10:30 A.M., 351 W. Bridge Wolfgang Tichy, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University "Binary Black Hole Initial Data Based on Post-Newtonian Data"

  • 2/7/03 10:30 A.M., Salvatori Room -- 365 South Mudd Niall O'Murchadha, Physics Department, University College, Cork, Ireland "General Relativity from the 3-Dimensional Linear Group or Something From (Almost) Nothing"

  • 2/14/03 10:30 A.M., Salvatori Room -- 365 South Mudd Peter Diener, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany "Finding Event Horizons in 3D Numerical Spacetimes"

  • 2/21/03 10:30 A.M., Salvatori Room -- 365 South Mudd Frans Pretorius, Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech "Adaptive Mesh Refinement in Numerical Relativity"

  • 3/7/03 10:30 A.M., Salvatori Room -- 365 South Mudd Vincent Moncrief, Physics and Mathematics Department, Yale University "Einstein Spaces as Attractors for Einstein's Equations"

  • 3/14/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Masaru Shibata, University of Tokyo "Hydrodynamic Simulations in General Relativity"

  • 3/21/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Gerhard Schaefer, University of Jena "Analytical Treatment of the Motion of Nonspinning Binary Black Holes"
  • 3/28/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Niall O'Murchadha, Physics Department, University College, Cork, Ireland "Constant Mean Curvature Slices of the Schwarzschild Spacetime"

  • 4/4/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Mark Scheel, Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech "Dynamical Gauge Conditions for the Einstein Evolution Equations"
  • 4/11/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Bala Iyer, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India "3PN Generation of Gravitational Waves from Inspiraling Compact Binaries"

  • 4/18/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Scott Hawley, Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin "Simulations of Black Holes using Fixed Mesh Refinement in 3D"

  • 4/25/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge James Isenberg, Mathematics Department, University of Oregon "On Solutions of the Einstein Constraint Equations with Non Constant Mean Curvature"

  • 5/2/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Greg Cook, Physics Department, Wake Forest University "Generating Binary Black Hole Initial Data"

  • 5/6/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Bernd Bruegmann, Physics Department, Pennsylvania State University "Black Hole Simulations Without Excision"

  • 5/9/03 10:30 A.M., 114 E. Bridge Mark Miller, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "On the Circular Orbit Approximation for Initial Data in General Relativity"


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