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23rd
Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting
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| Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast and Registration | 8:00 | 8:50 | |||
| Etienne Racine | Caltech | Opening Remarks | 9:00 | 9:05 | |
| Nikodem Poplawski | Indiana University | no | Dark Energy and Electromagnetism in Purely Affine Gravity | 9:05 | 9:17 |
| Derek Wise | University of California Riverside | yes | Spacetime Geometry and Cartan Connections | 9:17 | 9:29 |
| Piotr Marecki | Leipzig University | no | On the Wave Equation in Spacetimes of Goedel Type | 9:29 | 9:41 |
| Catherine Williams | University of Washington | yes | Asymptotic Behavior of Marginally Trapped Tubes | 9:41 | 9:53 |
| Aaron Amsel | University of California Santa Barbara | yes | Stability and Instability in Designer Gravity | 9:53 | 10:05 |
| Amitabh Virmani | University of California Santa Barbara | yes | Renormalized Action for Asymptotically Flat Gravity | 10:05 | 10:17 |
| Jack Sarfatti | ISEP | no | Emergence of Tetrads and Spin Connections from the Spontaneous Breakdown of Localized Poincare Group Symmetry in the Post-inflation Physical Vacuum | 10:17 | 10:29 |
| Coffee Break | 10:29 | 10:47 |
| Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anshuman Maharana | University of California Santa Barbara | yes | Stringy Effects in Black Hole Formation from High Energy Collision | 10:49 | 11:01 |
| Robert Myers | Perimeter Institute | no | DGP Gravity: Falling Down | 11:01 | 11:13 |
| Steve Giddings | University of California Santa Barbara | no | Quantization in Black Hole Backgrounds | 11:13 | 11:25 |
| Michael Gary | University of California Santa Barbara | yes | Relational Observables in 2-D Quantum Gravity | 11:25 | 11:37 |
| Hector Calderon | Montana State University | yes | Quantum Fields Near Phantom-Energy Sudden Singularities | 11:37 | 11:49 |
| Matthias Wapler | Perimeter Institute | yes | Charges from Attractors | 11:49 | 12:01 |
| George Chapline | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | no | Interior Solution for Rotating Dark Energy Stars and Blueprint for Rotating Universe | 12:01 | 12:13 |
| Franklin Felber | Starmark Inc. | no | Relativistic Hypervelocity Propulsion | 12:13 | 12:25 |
| Lunch Break | 12:25 | 1:50 |
| Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Braginsky | University of Moscow | no | Limitations in Quantum Measurements Resolution Created by Cosmic Rays | 2:00 | 2:12 |
| Ted Cook | University of Washington | yes | Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law Below the Dark-Energy Length Scale | 2:12 | 2:24 |
| Sam Waldman | Caltech | no | Nuts and Bolts of the LIGO Science Run | 2:24 | 2:36 |
| John Miller | LIGO Caltech / University of Glasgow | yes | Experimental Study of Non-Gaussian Beams for Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors | 2:36 | 2:48 |
| Mihai Bondarescu | Caltech | yes | Seeing Further with LIGO | 2:48 | 3:00 |
| Marc Favata | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics | no | Issues in Eccentric Binary Inspiral | 3:00 | 3:12 |
| Ilya Mandel | Caltech | yes | Intermediate-Mass-Ratio Inspirals into Intermediate Mass Black Holes | 3:12 | 3:24 |
| Jeandrew Brink | Caltech | no | Orbits in Axisymmetric Stationary Vacuum Spacetimes | 3:24 | 3:36 |
| Coffee Break | 3:36 | 3:54 |
| Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keith Copsey | University of California Santa Barbara | yes | Bubbles Unbound: Bubbles of Nothing Without Kaluza-Klein | 3:56 | 4:08 |
| Xavier Siemens | Caltech | no | Gravitational Wave Stochastic Background from Cosmic (Super)Strings | 4:08 | 4:20 |
| Jorge Rocha | University of California Santa Barbara | yes | Periodic Gravitational Waves from Small Cosmic String Loops | 4:20 | 4:32 |
| Daniel Bambeck | Montana State University | yes | The Uncertainty Principle and Effective Mass on the Brane | 4:32 | 4:44 |
| Andrew Beckwith | APS / Fermi contractor | no | How can Brane World Physics be Reconciled to Early Universe Applications of Relic Thermal Input as given by Loop Quantum Gravity to Inflationary Cosmology | 4:44 | 4:56 |
| John Kulick | University of Connecticut graduate | no | Uniform Expansion Geometry with Two Dimensions of Time | 4:56 | 5:08 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | 8:00 | 8:50 | |||
| Lee Lindblom | Caltech | no | Introduction to Binary Black Hole Evolutions | 9:00 | 9:12 |
| Oliver Rinne | Caltech | no | Outer Boundary Conditions Put to the Test | 9:12 | 9:24 |
| Mark Scheel | Caltech | no | Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Hole Inspirals | 9:24 | 9:36 |
| Harald Pfeiffer | Caltech | no | How to Remove Eccentricity in Binary Black Hole Simulations | 9:36 | 9:48 |
| Mike Boyle | Caltech | yes | Numerical Simulations Confront Post-Newtonian Approximations | 9:48 | 10:00 |
| Keith Matthews | Caltech | yes | Implementing Gauge Driver Conditions for the Generalized Harmonic Evolution System | 10:00 | 10:12 |
| Michael Cohen | Caltech | yes | Event Horizons in Binary Black Hole Mergers | 10:12 | 10:24 |
| Geoffrey Lovelace | Caltech | yes | Horizon Shapes in Binary Black Hole Simulations | 10:24 | 10:36 |
| Robert Owen | Caltech | yes | Approximate Killing Vectors on Deformed Two-Spheres | 10:36 | 10:48 |
| Coffee Break | 10:48 | 11:05 |
| Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Isenberg | University of Oregon | no | Why Scalar Fields are Tricky in the Einstein Constraints | 11:07 | 11:19 |
| Sean Hartnoll | University of California Santa Barbara | no | From Black Holes to the Hall Effect | 11:19 | 11:31 |
| Jeffrey Morton | University of California Riverside | yes | Extended Topological Quantum Field Theories and Quantum Gravity | 11:31 | 11:43 |
| Sergio Aguilar-Rudametkin | California State University Fresno | yes | Thick Branes from Scalar Fields | 11:43 | 11:55 |
| Matthew Roberts | University of California Santa Barbara | yes | Dynamics of First Order Transitions with Gravity Duals | 11:55 | 12:07 |
| Alexander Mayer | independent | no | Wave Energy in Quantum Mechanics | 12:07 | 12:19 |
| Lunch Break | 12:19 | 2:00 |
| Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Plowman | Montana State University | yes | Intermediate Mass Black Hole Binary Astrophysics from LISA Data | 2:10 | 2:22 |
| Tyson Littenberg | Montana State University | yes | Automatic Model Selection for Low Mass Binaries | 2:22 | 2:34 |
| Patricia Purdue | Colorado College | no | Modeling Acceleration Noise in LISA | 2:34 | 2:46 |
| Steve Drasco | Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech | no | The Quantized Gravitational Spectra of Quiescent Black Hole Binaries | 2:46 | 2:58 |
| Jeff Crowder | Jet Propulsion Laboratroy / Caltech | no | Are we Confused Yet? Updates in Solving the LISA Foreground Problem | 2:58 | 3:10 |
| Michele Vallisneri | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | no | Use and Abuse of the Fisher Information Matrix | 3:10 | 3:22 |
| Coffee Break | 3:22 | 3:40 |
| Name | Organization | Student | Talk | Begin | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awarding of the prize for the GGR Topical Group in Gravity Best Student Presentation at PCGM23 | 3:42 | 3:47 | |||
| Naoki Seto | University of California Irvine | no | Searching for Circular Gravitational Signal in Gravitational Wave Background | 3:47 | 3:59 |
| Dong-Hoon Kim | Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics | no | Calculations of the Self-Force in Kerr Spacetime via the Mode-Sum Method | 3:59 | 4:11 |
| Gary Horowitz | University of California Santa Barbara | no | Microstates of Neutral Black Holes | 4:11 | 4:23 |
| Douglas Singleton | California State University Fresno | no | Hawking and Unruh Radiation as Tunneling | 4:23 | 4:35 |
| Albert Tarantola | University of Paris VI | no | Are there Physically Implementable Space-Time Coordinates that - Besides Having the Relativistic Quality - are Immediate? Implications for Satellite Constellations | 4:35 | 4:47 |
| George Soli | Integrated Detector Systems | no | Laboratory Detection of Cold Dark Matter as Sidereal Dilaton Scattering Data | 4:47 | 4:59 |
| Robert Evans | independent | no | "Ulteriortonics", a Hidden Variable in the Form of an Absolute Constant Limit | 4:59 | 5:11 |
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