20th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting

List of confirmed participants

Name	Organization	Student	Talk
Alfonso Agnew	California State University, Fullerton	No	Biquaternion Geometry and Twistors
Rafael Araya-Gochez	Caltech	No	Gravitational waves from hyper-accretion onto nascent black holes
John Armstrong	JPL	No	-
Ivan Avramidi	New Mexico Tech	No	Noncommutative Deformation of General Relativity
Daniel Bambeck	Montana State University	Yes	Sensitivity Curves for LISA-like detectors with nearly equal arms
Eric Berg	UC Irvine	No	-
Luisa T. Buchman	JPL	No	A Hyperbolic Tetrad Approach to Numerical Relativity
Sasha Buchman	Stanford University	No	LISA technology progress
Lior Burko	University of Utah	No	Higher-derivative Palatini gravity and the accelerating universe
Belkis Cabrera-Palmer	Syracuse University	Yes	A new instability of the black string
Steven Carlip	UC Davis	No	A homogeneous early universe from sums over topologies
Adam Clausen	University of Oregon	No	-
Dominic Clancy	University of Crete	No	Generating solutions for gravi-scalar systems with potentials
Patrick Conley	ASI	Yes	-
Keith Copsey	UCSB	Yes	Through the Looking Glass: AdS-CFT with time dependent boundary conditions
Teviet Creighton	Caltech	No	Detectability of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals by LISA
William Cross	UC Irvine	Yes	-
Jeff Crowder	Montana State University	Yes	Lisa Signal Confusion
Phillip W. Dennis	TechFinity Inc.	No	-
Randy M. Dumse	New Micros, Inc.	No	-
James Dunham	-	No	Geometric Basis of Born Infeld Electrodynamics
Robert D. Eagleton	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	No	Gravitation and the Vacuum Structure
Henriette Elvang	UCSB	Yes	Black Rings: Non-uniqueness of Black Holes in Supergravity
Frank Estabrook	JPL	No	-
Hua Fang	Caltech	Yes	-
Marc Favata	Cornell University	Yes	The gravitational radiation rocket effect
Franklin Felber	Starmark, Inc.	No	-
Arthur E. Fischer	University of California, Santa Cruz	No	A New Geometric Approach to Existence, Uniqueness, and Persistance of Solutions for Einstein's Empty Space Field Equations
Steve Giddings	UCSB	No	The locality bound and the information paradox
Lisa Goggin	Caltech	No	-
Jan Harms	Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik	Yes	Nonlinear Optics and Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors
James Hartle	UCSB	No	-
Thomas Hertog	UCSB	No	Black Holes and Asymptotics in Anti de Sitter Space
Craig Hogan	University of Washington	No	Quantum Gravity Gives Inflationary Perturbations a Discrete Spectrum That Might be Observed
Jack Hohner	AXAMA Corporation	No	Deficiencies in Tidal Friction
Gary Horowitz	UCSB	No	How to violate cosmic censorship
Shinson Hsiao	UCLA	Yes	-
Jim Imamura	University of Oregon	No	-
Takumi Inoue	UC Irvine	No	-
Jim Isenberg	University of Oregon	No	Cosmological Solutions with no CMC Slices
Ulf Israelsson	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	No	-
Rick Jenet	JPL	No	Pulsar timing and gravitational wave detection: Constraining the properties of the proposed super-massive black hole system in 3C66B
Martin N. Kaplan	University of Wisconsin	No	Gravitation and the Vacuum Structure
Poghos Kazarian	GCC	No	-
Shane L. Larson	Caltech	No	Little stars, big black holes: gravitational waves from parabolic capture orbits
Lee Lindblom	Caltech	No	-
Geoffrey Lovelace	Caltech	Yes	Tidal Coupling in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Ilya Mandel	Caltech	Yes	Breaking black holes with scalar waves
Szabolcs Marka	Caltech	No	Search for the gravitational wave signature of GRB030329
Donald Marolf	UCSB	No	On the Quantum Width of a Black Hole Horizon
David L. Meier	JPL	No	Ohm's Law in the Fast Lane: General Relativistic Charge Dynamics
Eric Minassian	ITP, University of Bern, Switzerland	No	-
Robert Owen	Caltech	Yes	Optimal Constraint Projection for Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems
Yi Pan	Caltech	Yes	Physical family of GW templates for precessing binaries
Zoltan Perjes	KFKI RMKI - Hungarian Academy of Sciences	No	Perturbations of FRW models with a cosmological constant
William Pezzaglia	Santa Clara University	No	Is Gauge Invariance Violated by Spin and Torsion?
Harald P. Pfeiffer	Caltech	No	Construction of initial data for GR
Frans Pretorius	Caltech	No	Numerical experiments with generalized harmonic coordinates
Richard Price	University of Utah	No	Radiative tails in Schwarzschild spacetime revisited one more time yet again (with Lior Burko)
Patricia Purdue	Colorado College	No	-
Louis Rubbo	Montana State University	Yes	Characterizing the Galactic Gravitational Wave Background
Kenneth V. Saunders	Rand Corp. (retired)	No	-
Pavlin Savov	Caltech	Yes	Comparison Between Nearly Flat and Concentric Mexican-Hat Modes for Advanced LIGO - Applications to Angular Instabilities
Mark Scheel	Caltech	No	Controlling growth of constraints in numerical relativity
Paul Schladensky	Montana State University	Yes	Hierarchical methods for detecting supermassive black hole binaries
Naoki Seto	Caltech	No	Strong Gravitational Lensing and Localization of Merging Massive Black Hole Binaries with LISA
Peter Shawhan	Caltech	No	Status of LIGO Searches for Binary Inspirals
David Snead	UCLA	Yes	-
Damian Sowinski	UC Berkeley	No	-
Patrick Sutton	Caltech	No	Status of LIGO
Sherry Suyu	Caltech	Yes	Determining the Hubble Constant from the Gravitational Lens B1608+656
Brett Taylor	Radford University	No	-
Kip Thorne	Caltech	No	-
Seth Timpano	Montana State University	Yes	Modeling the Galactic Gravitational Wave Background
Michele Vallisneri	JPL	No	Synthetic LISA
Chris Varvas	GCC	Yes	-
Akira Villar	Caltech	Yes	Sapphire Mirrors: Preliminary data from the TNI
Stan Whitcomb	Caltech/LIGO	No	-
Peng Peng Yu	Dartmouth College	Yes	-