20th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting:
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Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
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breakfast and registration | 8:00 | 9:00 | |||
Michele Vallisneri | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Opening remarks | 9:00 | 9:05 | |
Shane L. Larson | Caltech | No | Little stars, big black holes: gravitational waves from parabolic capture orbits | 9:05 | 9:20 |
Rick Jenet | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | No | Pulsar timing and gravitational wave detection: Constraining the properties of the proposed super-massive black hole system in 3C66B | 9:20 | 9:35 |
Rafael Araya-Gochez | Caltech | No | Gravitational waves from hyper-accretion onto nascent black holes | 9:35 | 9:50 |
Marc Favata | Cornell University | Yes | The gravitational radiation rocket effect | 9:50 | 10:05 |
Sherry Suyu | Caltech | Yes | Determining the Hubble constant from the gravitational lens B1608+656 | 10:05 | 10:20 |
Geoffrey Lovelace | Caltech | Yes | Tidal coupling in extreme mass ratio inspirals | 10:20 | 10:35 |
coffee break | 10:35 | 10:55 |
Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
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Patrick Sutton | Caltech | No | Status of LIGO | 10:55 | 11:10 |
Pavlin Savov | Caltech | Yes | Comparison Between Nearly Flat and Concentric Mexican-Hat Modes for Advanced LIGO - Applications to Angular Instabilities | 11:10 | 11:25 |
Jan Harms | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik | Yes | Nonlinear Optics and Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors | 11:25 | 11:40 |
Akira Villar | Caltech | Yes | Sapphire Mirrors: Preliminary data from the TNI | 11:40 | 11:55 |
Yi Pan | Caltech | Yes | A physical family of gravitational-wave templates for precessing binaries | 11:55 | 12:10 |
Peter Shawhan | Caltech | No | Status of LIGO Searches for Binary Inspirals | 12:10 | 12:25 |
Szabolcs Marka | Caltech | No | Search for the gravitational wave signature of GRB030329 | 12:25 | 12:40 |
lunch break | 12:40 | 2:00 |
Before the beginning of the Friday afternoon session, Prof. Vladimir Braginsky (Moscow State University) will give a special CaJAGWR seminar on the Adolescent years of experimental physics. All PCGM participants are invited to attend. The seminar will be at 2pm in the PCGM conference room (E. Bridge 201). |
Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
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Alfonso Agnew | California State University, Fullerton | No | Biquaternion Geometry and Twistors | 2:25 | 2:40 |
Ivan Avramidi | New Mexico Tech | No | Noncommutative Deformation of General Relativity | 2:40 | 2:55 |
Arthur E. Fischer | UC Santa Cruz | No | A New Geometric Approach to Existence, Uniqueness, and Persistance of Solutions for Einstein's Empty Space Field Equations | 2:55 | 3:10 |
William Pezzaglia | Santa Clara University | No | Is Gauge Invariance Violated by Spin and Torsion? | 3:10 | 3:25 |
Jack Hohner | AXAMA Corporation | No | Deficiencies in Tidal Friction | 3:25 | 3:40 |
coffee break | 3:40 | 4:00 |
Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
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Thomas Hertog | UCSB | No | Black Holes and Asymptotics in Anti de Sitter Space | 4:00 | 4:15 |
Steve Giddings | UCSB | No | The locality bound and the information paradox | 4:15 | 4:30 |
Belkis Cabrera-Palmer | Syracuse University | Yes | A new instability of the black string | 4:30 | 4:45 |
Henriette Elvang | UCSB | Yes | Black Rings: Non-uniqueness of Black Holes in Supergravity | 4:45 | 5:00 |
Keith Copsey | UCSB | Yes | Through the Looking Glass: AdS-CFT with time dependent boundary conditions | 5:00 | 5:15 |
James Dunham | - | No | Geometric Basis of Born Infeld Electrodynamics | 5:15 | 5:30 |
party at Kip Thorne's | 7:00 |
At the end of the Friday afternoon session, it will be possible for a limited number of PCGM participants to visit the LIGO 40m prototype located in the Caltech campus. A signup sheet will be available on Friday morning; preference will be given to nonlocal participants. |
Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
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breakfast | 8:00 | 9:00 | |||
Zoltan Perjes | KFKI RMKI - Hungarian Academy of Sciences | No | Perturbations of FRW models with a cosmological constant | 9:00 | 9:15 |
Dominic Clancy | University of Crete | No | Generating solutions for gravi-scalar systems with potentials | 9:15 | 9:30 |
Steven Carlip | UC Davis | No | A homogeneous early universe from sums over topologies | 9:30 | 9:45 |
Jim Isenberg | University of Oregon | No | Cosmological Solutions with no CMC Slices | 9:45 | 10:00 |
Lior Burko | University of Utah | No | Higher-derivative Palatini gravity and the accelerating universe | 10:00 | 10:15 |
Sasha Buchman | Stanford University | No | LISA technology progress | 10:15 | 10:30 |
coffee break | 10:30 | 10:50 |
Teviet Creighton | Caltech | No | Detectability of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals by LISA | 10:50 | 11:05 |
Naoki Seto | Caltech | No | Strong Gravitational Lensing and Localization of Merging Massive Black Hole Binaries with LISA | 11:05 | 11:20 |
Daniel Bambeck | Montana State University | Yes | Sensitivity curves for LISA-like detectors with nearly equal arms | 11:20 | 11:35 |
Seth Timpano | Montana State University | Yes | Modeling the Galactic Gravitational Wave Background | 11:35 | 11:50 |
Louis Rubbo | Montana State University | Yes | Characterizing the Galactic Gravitational Wave Background | 11:50 | 12:05 |
Paul Schladensky | Montana State University | Yes | Hierarchical methods for detecting supermassive black hole binaries | 12:05 | 12:20 |
Jeff Crowder | Montana State University | Yes | Lisa Signal Confusion | 12:20 | 12:35 |
lunch break | 12:35 | 2:00 |
Harald P. Pfeiffer | Caltech | No | Construction of initial data for GR | 2:00 | 2:15 |
Mark Scheel | Caltech | No | Controlling growth of constraints in numerical relativity | 2:15 | 2:30 |
Robert Owen | Caltech | Yes | Optimal Constraint Projection for Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems | 2:30 | 2:45 |
Ilya Mandel | Caltech | Yes | Breaking black holes with scalar waves | 2:45 | 3:00 |
Luisa T. Buchman | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | No | A Hyperbolic Tetrad Approach to Numerical Relativity | 3:00 | 3:15 |
Frans Pretorius | Caltech | No | Numerical experiments with generalized harmonic coordinates | 3:15 | 3:30 |
coffee break | 3:30 | 3:50 |
awarding of the prize for the GGR Topical Group in Gravity Best Student Presentation at PCGM20 | 3:50 | 3:55 | |||
Richard Price | University of Utah | No | Radiative tails in Schwarzschild spacetime revisited one more time yet again (with Lior Burko) | 3:55 | 4:10 |
David L. Meier | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | No | Ohm's Law in the Fast Lane: General Relativistic Charge Dynamics | 4:10 | 4:25 |
Craig Hogan | University of Washington | No | Quantum Gravity Gives Inflationary Perturbations a Discrete Spectrum That Might be Observed | 4:25 | 4:40 |
Gary Horowitz | UCSB | No | How to violate cosmic censorship | 4:40 | 4:55 |
Donald Marolf | UCSB | No | On the Quantum Width of a Black Hole Horizon | 4:55 | 5:10 |
Robert D. Eagleton and Martin N. Kaplan | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | No | Gravitation and the Vacuum Structure | 5:10 | 5:25 |
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